In the first half of 2026, large AI-industry financings landed thick and fast across the globe. By Zhidx’s tally, there were 165 domestic-or-over-100-million-yuan AI financing events worldwide in the half, totalling about 2.7 trillion yuan. China and the United States led: China had 77 such events, the most of any country, at about 126.3 billion … Read more
On 5 August, SAIC Motor and General Motors signed a renewal in Shanghai that extends SAIC-GM to 2047, another 20 years. It is a symbolic number. Since its 1997 founding, SAIC-GM has run nearly three decades. As China’s industry moves from combustion to electrification and intelligence, the two sides chose to renew now, which raises … Read more
Robot Forward reported on 9 September that Beijing Physical-AI data-base company WuWen ZhiKe has closed a Series A of several hundred million yuan. The round was led by Hongtai Fund, with Hongshan Capital, Zhongdian Shurong and Lion City Capital following, and existing shareholders Bridge Capital, Lihe Financial, Lihe Zhongke and Chengkai Lingcheng oversubscribing; Shneng Capital … Read more
In the first half of 2026, China’s car market moved through pressure and change at once. Domestic passenger-car registrations fell about 20 per cent year on year, even as close to 500 new models launched. With supply and demand out of step, a new car’s hot-selling window shrank sharply, and the average industry profit margin … Read more
Robot Forward reported on 9 September that at the JDD 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference, JD pointed the next decade of AI at the physical world. Cao Peng, chairman of JD’s technology committee and president of JD Cloud, said the smart economy will migrate from the digital world to the physical world over the … Read more
XPeng’s robot business has moved a step closer to volume production. On 8 September XPeng’s own line completed automated final assembly of its first high-end general-purpose humanoid, and the machine walked off the line by itself, marking the shift from research build to line manufacturing. XPeng IRON humanoid on the company’s newly opened automated assembly … Read more
What compute base does personal AI actually need? As phones start to understand intent, call tools and complete tasks continuously, the platform must support a full personal-AI experience, not one model inference. At Arm Everywhere China 2026, Arm released its latest CSS for Mobile 2, where AI plays two roles in the new phone compute … Read more
Demand for desktop AI compute among professional users is growing exponentially, from local large-model fine-tuning and inference to generative-AI design, data-science mining and 3D simulation modelling. Traditional desktop GPUs are bottlenecked by memory capacity, AI compute throughput and multi-task parallelism, and cannot fit the increasingly complex desktop AI-development and professional-visual-computing scenarios. NVIDIA RTX PRO desktop … Read more
After Zhipu and MiniMax listed early this year, who becomes the third large-model company to list remains open, but the field of serious contenders is thin. Fresh reports say Moonshot has confidentially submitted its A1 filing to the Hong Kong exchange and launched its IPO process, raising a Pre-IPO round at a USD 50 billion … Read more
On 7 September, just days after OpenAI released a powerful new model, its chief scientist published a blog calling to slow the pace of AI development. Jakub Pachocki wrote that he worries “no one is prepared for the consequences of the continued rapid growth of machine intelligence.” Pachocki said OpenAI is researching technical solutions to … Read more