China’s GPU ‘four dragons’ meet on the market at RMB 613 billion, but the real test starts now

On 11 September, Enflame listed on the STAR Market, jumping 179.22 per cent on debut to a RMB 170.8 billion market cap. With Moorc and Muxi on the STAR Market and Biren in Hong Kong, China’s GPU “four dragons” have all reached public markets, worth about RMB 613.2 billion combined. It is a milestone for … Read more

Huawei hands AITO back to Seres as the HIMA alliance redraws its brand map

Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA) and Seres have responded to a change in how the AITO brand is run. Product definition, product design, brand marketing, channel retail and after-sales service will be led by Seres, with Huawei’s consumer unit contributing enablement. HIMA confirmed AITO’s new operating model on 15 September. (Source: Chedongxi) AITO remains part … Read more

FAW is set to become GAC’s second-largest shareholder, and the missing Toyota venture points to a merger

A new round of consolidation among China’s state-owned carmakers has actually started. On 14 September, GAC Group said it had signed a letter of intent with FAW Car Co to buy part of a joint-venture vehicle company held by FAW through a share issue, alongside a supporting fundraising. GAC confirmed the FAW share deal in … Read more

Unitree shed RMB 250 billion in a month, but the investors still call it a bubble worth riding

On 15 September, Unitree traded at RMB 469.88, down 57 per cent from its 19 August IPO high of RMB 1,100, yet its market value still stood near RMB 190 billion. More than ten embodied-AI firms including Yunxi, AgiBot, Zhongqing, Galbot and Leju have started IPO processes, and valuation has turned into a brawl. Mech-Mind’s … Read more

Mech-Mind fires the opening shot in embodied-AI’s IPO scramble, and the six-month window is closing

On 1 September, Shao Tianlan took Mech-Mind to the Hong Kong exchange. Nine days later, the chief executive of a robot firm worth HK$10.4 billion publicly accused Galbot, an embodied-AI star valued at RMB 20 billion, of fabricating “false and unsustainable” revenue through data centres and related-party deals with local governments, investors and suppliers. The … Read more

XPeng flips the humanoid-robot deadlock with an automated line, 80 per cent of core processes run without hands

Before Henry Ford’s moving line in 1913, cars were hand-built luxuries. Assembly fell to 93 minutes and cost collapsed. Today’s humanoids look like cars before 1913: the tech dazzles, but building one unit and stably building ten thousand are two different problems. Demo after demo shows dancing and tray-carrying, yet at scale there is no … Read more

Chip supply chain sheds over US$500 billion as Trump lashes out at AI doomsday talk

A wave of safety warnings from leading artificial-intelligence labs, together with OpenAI’s decision to shelve its IPO this year, pushed markets to price in a simple equation: slower frontier-model iteration means weaker chip demand. On Monday the selling swept Asia, Europe and the Americas, and early tallies put the market value wiped from the global … Read more

China’s home-grown self-driving chip tops Nvidia at home, with Volkswagen now on board

China built 34.53 million vehicles in 2025, the 17th year it has led the world, with new-energy output up 29 per cent year on year. The more consequential contest, though, is the silicon behind the wheel. Horizon Robotics says its Journey series of autonomous-driving chips has now passed 15 million units shipped, and the pace … Read more

Former Huawei autonomy executives bank over RMB 500 million for humanoid-robot startup Kinetix AI

Kinetix AI, a full-stack embodied-intelligence company, has closed an angel-plus round of more than RMB 500 million, with Vertex Capital, the venture arm under Singapore’s Temasek, alongside Fangguang Capital and Wanshi Capital adding to the round. The proceeds will accelerate the firm’s data-model-embodiment loop and push its embodied products toward commercial deployment. The company was … Read more