The Economist sent a reporter to Shantou to cover a hit film. What came back was an autopsy. They are wrong about the patient. The piece (”Bottom of the class”, July 23) declares Shantou the special economic zone that failed, the odd one out among four. GDP per person of 54,000 yuan. Growth of 0.1% … Read more
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin presenting Kimi Chat’s long-context model capabilities. After DeepSeek, another Chinese model has rattled the United States. On July 22, four things happened in a single day. Michael Kratsios, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, publicly accused Moonshot AI on X of “large-scale distillation” of American … Read more
🇲🇾 Malaysia, 2026-08: Chinese brands took 7.5% of the market (7.5% excl MG). Perodua and Proton still own 59%, but the China bench is stacking up fast.
Wanson Technology, a flexible embodied-intelligence specialist, has released NOVA2.0, the second generation of its flexible embodied brain and what it calls the industry’s first open-world, all-weather, commercial-delivery-grade embodied-AI architecture. Wanson launched NOVA2.0, its open-world commercial-grade embodied AI brain. (Source: LeiPhone) The architecture grew out of more than 10 million multi-dimensional extreme-condition operations across 40-plus real … Read more
On 10 September, Unitree Technology’s shares fell below the 500 yuan level for the first time, touching 498.7 yuan intraday, a sharp comedown from its blockbuster debut. Unitree’s shares slipped below 500 yuan, erasing more than RMB 240 billion in market value. (Source: Gasgoo) By the late morning the stock stood at 500.49 yuan with … Read more
Kinetix AI, also known as Chaowei Dynamics, has closed a series of angel-plus rounds above RMB 500 million, led by Vertex Ventures under Temasek, with Fangguang Capital and Wanshi Capital adding funds, to speed its data-model-entity iteration and productise embodied intelligence. Kinetix AI closed a RMB 500 million-plus angel round for its embodied-intelligence stack. (Source: … Read more
JD.com has launched its Physical AI Acceleration Plan alongside a Super AI Supply Chain, aiming to build what it calls the world’s largest physical-world operations centre and link data, models, hardware and industry scenarios end to end. JD.com plans 80 robot industry bases and a 10 million-hour embodied-data centre. (Source: Gasgoo) On data, JD Cloud … Read more
Five days after Tesla put its production Cybercab into public Robotaxi service, early riders in Austin are split between awe and annoyance. Tesla’s wheel-less, pedal-less Cybercab has joined its Robotaxi fleet for public trials. (Source: CheDongXi) The Cybercab, revealed on 4 September, drops the steering wheel, pedals and mirrors entirely and relies on Tesla’s Full … Read more
China has published its 15th Five-Year Plan for the intelligent-connected new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, laying out the concrete targets that will define the country’s car sector through 2030. China’s newly published roadmap sets 2030 targets for its intelligent-connected NEV industry. (Source: CheDongXi) The plan, issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and … Read more
When notable investor Zhu Xiaohu stepped back from humanoid bets and turned to Harbin Engineering-linked Shihang, the deep-sea robot track drew fresh attention. A different Harbin Engineering spinout, DeepSea Intelligence, is taking the industrial deep-sea route, and it is moving to commercial scale faster. A RMB 500 million vote On 13 August, DeepSea Intelligence announced … Read more
As smart terminals race toward agentic AI, more functions run efficiently and safely on device. An agent can run dozens or hundreds of steps from one sentence, or act before you speak by sensing context and memory. That experience rests on the silicon, and the agent trend is pushing chips to evolve: more performance, less … Read more
On 1 September, Mech-Mind rang the bell on the Hong Kong exchange. The headline is a cornerstone book that reads like a roll call of smart money, led by Baillie Gifford, the Scottish house that backed Tesla and Nvidia, alongside Taikang, Jane Street, BYD’s Golden Link, Invus, Ghisallo, Ruihua, NGS Super and E Fund, who … Read more