China’s smart-car industry is still accelerating. The pace shows up not just in shorter launch cycles but across how consumers adopt new technology, how products are developed, how supply chains cut cost and how companies make decisions. For automotive suppliers, the rules of competition are shifting: products must land faster and cheaper while still meeting … Read more
🇹🇭 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