The Belt 
🇹🇭 Thailand, 2026-08: Chinese brands took 35.9% of the market (30.7% excl MG). Chery’s Omoda and Jaecoo combo led the Chinese pack at nearly 5,000 units, and the China block now owns every rank from four down.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 2026-08: Chinese brands took 21.0% of the market (15.8% excl MG). Chery, Jaecoo and Omoda combined outsold every carmaker in Britain except Volkswagen, and BYD cracked the top ten for the first time.
🇧🇷 Brazil, 2026-08: Chinese brands took 22.8% of the market (22.7% excl MG). BYD set a monthly record at 4th and closed to within 3,000 of Chevrolet, while the whole China bloc crossed 22% share for the first time.
On 1 September 2026, Mech-Mind Robotics, stock code 09615.HK, listed on the Hong Kong exchange. The headline attraction is a top-tier cornerstone roster led by Baillie Gifford, the century-old Scottish asset manager known for long-term bets on Tesla and Nvidia, with Tai Kang Life, Jane Street, BYD’s industrial arm Golden Link, Invus, Ghisallo, Ruihua and … Read more
SpaceX’s IPO drew global attention, not only refreshing the record for a first raise at US$75 billion but becoming the world’s fourth-largest listed company on its third trading day, sending Musk past a trillion-dollar fortune. AI data-centre power use is set to roughly double by 2030, nearing Japan’s annual generation. (Source: LeiFengWang) The prospectus stated … Read more
The author had Qwen 3.8-Max build a 3D large-model evolution universe website from scratch and iterated against GPT-5.6. Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8-Max was tested against GPT-5.6 on a 3D website build. (Source: LeiFengWang) On ceiling, Qwen 3.8-Max showed far more delivered detail than GPT-5.6. On efficiency and cost, Max’s high completion came with low efficiency, and … Read more
After Zhipu and MiniMax listed in Hong Kong earlier this year, who becomes the third large-model company to land is still open, but the field of serious contenders is thin. China’s leading large-model startups are now in an IPO sprint. (Source: Sohu IT) New reporting says Moonshot has confidentially submitted an A1 filing to the … Read more
On 7 September, Gasgoo’s embodied-intelligence channel learned that Weifen Zhifei, a Hangzhou company, has closed an A2 round of several hundred million yuan, led by Puhua Capital, with Huihui Fund and the Yangtze River Delta Digital-Culture Fund following, and earlier backers Five YSource, Shenzhen Capital, Hongtai, Huaying, Huakong, Changshi and Baidu Ventures adding. Proceeds go … Read more
Robots entering factories is the clearest main line of the embodied-AI industry this year. A factory owner, asked how robots perform, said that for an export business with fast-changing orders, the line must shift constantly. Robots handle fixed tasks, but change the product and much has to be rebuilt. That is the real problem after … Read more
On the morning of 4 September, at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, Yuanshan Zhixing, under the AgiBot Research Institute, launched Xiaoyuan, a smart agile guide dog. It is the world’s first wheel-legged guide robot. AgiBot’s Xiaoyuan is the world’s first wheel-legged guide robot. (Source: OFweek) It is not a robot that dances on … Read more