China AI Weekly — August 23, 2026
Chinese autonomous driving firms expand rapidly in Europe; Alibaba restructures; Nvidia H200 chips trickle into China.
Why Carmakers Are Building Robots — and Why Europe’s Aren’t
Chery ships humanoids at scale, XPeng builds a robot factory, BYD debuts Xiao Di, Hyundai targets 30,000[…]
Seedance, Explained: The TikTok Company’s Video AI That Makes Money While the West Demos
Half of ByteDance’s cloud model revenue, four months after launch. What Seedance is, why China monetises AI[…]
China AI Midweek — August 19, 2026
Chinese self-driving firms expand in Europe; Apple partners with Alibaba on China AI model; US pushes AI[…]
China’s AI Just Raised Prices — and It’s Still Winning the Price War
DeepSeek hiked API prices up to 12x this week and still costs a fraction of US frontier[…]
Unitree: The $9 Billion Company Behind the Viral Robots
Kung-fu videos made Unitree famous. A record IPO, a DeepSeek alliance and $4,900 humanoids make it important.
UBTech: The Only Humanoid Company With Real Factory Numbers
Robots on shift at Zeekr, BYD and Audi-FAW, ¥821M humanoid revenue — the listed veteran that proves[…]
China AI Weekly — August 16, 2026
Pony.ai and Uber to deploy 2,000+ robotaxis in Europe; Alibaba open-sources Qwen 3.8; China AI chip race[…]
Xiaomi’s EU Strategy, Decoded: An AI Company on Wheels
655,000 cars in 25 months, a DeepSeek prodigy leading its AI lab, and one open-source model from[…]
The Robotaxi Math Is Solved — and It’s Arriving in Europe
Pony.ai proved per-vehicle profitability in China. Now it’s deploying 2,000+ robotaxis across Europe with Uber — and[…]