MetaX and UBTech's embodied-AI chip venture Xixuan Chuangzhi raises 500 million yuan angel round
GGV Capital and Matrix Partners China co-led the round; the Wuxi company, founded in May 2026, builds on-device computing platforms for robots.
- UC Berkeley and Nvidia release open-source tools for teams of AI agents to write and test industrial robot programs
- South Korea adds sensors, actuators and humanoid robot batteries to its flagship industry projects
- Singapore start-up Sapiens says it cuts robot AI training to as little as 30 minutes by training 1–3B parameters
- TIER IV open-sources end-to-end self-driving AI models for Autoware, from camera-only to LiDAR and HD maps
- Beijing issues 2026–2028 embodied AI robot plan, aiming for five world-class humanoid makers by 2028
- Trump says FBI is investigating Jensen Huang's affair with suspected Chinese spy as Nvidia board runs its own review
- Anthropic's bankers weigh pricing the IPO above its $70–$78 range, valuing it at $1.5 trillion or more, FT says
- Alibaba says Qwen4 is coming and puts Qwen4-Max into preview on its Token Plan
- Physicists led by David Gross validate OpenAI's AI-generated proof that quantum Yang-Mills theory exists
- Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, generally available
- UK AI chip startup Fractile raises $720 million Series C, backed by the government's Sovereign AI fund