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What changed, and what is the evidence.
Oct 22, 2026 · Funding · posted
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Implication of such heavy hitters investing in DeepSeek is not only DS being used by these corporations on a large scale in their physical or digital products, but also additional data coming in for DS + more importantly, DS has access to… |
China's AI stocks are getting HIT in Hong Kong today. The Hang Seng Tech Index fell about 4% to around 3,834, while the Hang Seng Index dropped almost 3%. According to Chinese media, AI model makers MiniMax and Zhipu fell more than 4%,… |
🇨🇳 Chinese AI company DeepSeek has reportedly raised nearly $15 billion in a major push to challenge American AI. The funding includes backing from Tencent, the company behind WeChat, and CATL, a leading battery manufacturer, as DeepSeek… |
DeepSeek did not raise roughly $15 billion, about 100 billion yuan from CATL and Tencent, to build a better chatbot. That round is one of the largest in Chinese tech history, Bloomberg is calling it a direct challenge to the leading US… |
Wild. Why we can't get cheap NVIDIA cards. https://t.co/frFkm8HW3A |
This is absolutely INSANE and another example of just how EXTREME demand for AI compute has become. According to Reuters, China's three largest technology companies, ByteDance, $BABA, and Tencent, have reportedly placed more than $35B in… |
ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent place over $35 billion worth of Nvidia chip orders US-based chipmaker Nvidia has told customers and partners it cannot guarantee that it can fill the orders because demand from Chinese technology companies far… |
𝟏𝟖 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐠𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲. @OpenAI, @amazon, @Apple, @AntGroup and @XiaomiTechnolo1 are building or pursuing their own humanoid bodies. @GoogleDeepMind,… |
I think Gavin's correct. Open-weight models that compress frontier margins are positive for AI infra -- they don't shrink demand for compute. An example is after Deepseek R1, Tencent, Alibaba and Bytedance *significantly* increased H20… |
China is about to unleash a 60x AI demand shock and it could create an entirely new group of stock market winners. JP Morgan expects China’s inference-token consumption to grow roughly 60-fold between 2026 and 2030. The chart shows demand… |
AgiBot is among the top 3 Chinese robotics firms alongside Unitree & Ubtech They have 44% of humanoid robot market share as of H1 26 with 8.4k shipped units Founder Peng Zhihui is an ex-Huawei gigabrain engineer and a KOL with 2.5m… |
a few notable open model releases *since* this interview of @dylan522p by the way :) Thinking Machines - Inkling - Jul 15 Moonshot - Kimi K3 - Jul 16, weights Jul 26/27 inclusionAI - Ling 3.0 Flash - Jul 23 DeepSeek - V4-Flash-0731 - Jul… |
Chinese Nvidia challenger Enflame jumps 179% in Shanghai market debut Tencent-backed 'little dragon' raises $910m; tech stocks' post-IPO slumps draw scrutiny https://t.co/ENKDb2qzq8 via @NikkeiAsia |
Alibaba’s AI ‘employees’ can now work in ByteDance, Tencent apps https://t.co/I1jL52AQ4V |
ByteDance alone is building 5-6 GW AIDC in Ulanqab. This increases AIDC capacity there by 40 to 50% Cost 800-960B RMB, so 160B RMB per GW or $22B. BD is battling Ali & Tencent for consumer app & work place app. Its oversea capex is… |
"China's four major cloud service providers (CSPs), Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance, are strongly requesting Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix" 👀👀👀 $DRAM $DISK $MU $EWY https://t.co/cQ8WTpKlQn |
And then DeepSeek, Moonshot, Zhipu, Alibaba...then Tencent, Bytedance, Minimax, Xiaomi.... https://t.co/QlG3ehFkDq |
CXMT officially reports the start of its LPDDR6 production. 12800 Mbps top transmission speed 20% lower power consumption than LPDDR5X Comes only in 16 GB config - so just for premium phones so far It confirmed also Alicloud, ByteDance,… |
A model that optimizes its own training pipeline is a different kind of release. Hy4 is a 770B MoE with 49B active parameters and a 1M-token context, open-sourced by Tencent. The headline number most people cited was the #3 open-source… |
Oops, something went wrong Skip to navigation Skip to main content Skip to right column Unitree Robotics stock soars 460% in Shanghai IPO debut Unitree Robotics stock soars 460% in Shanghai IPO debut·Quartz·NurPhoto / Getty Images Cris… |
Vytautas Valinskas / Technology.org (Aug 31, 2026), largely recapping TechCrunch Aug 28: Xpeng robotics unit raised more than $900 million at post-money valuation above $6.3 billion (company: largest single private financing in China's… |
Startup Fortune (Aug 29, 2026, 9:38 PM): Citing Fortune, Unitree raised about $900 million on Shanghai STAR at a roughly $9 billion IPO valuation, then closed Aug 19 first day up more than 460%. Backers named: DeepSeek, Alibaba, Ant Group,… |
XPENG is putting serious money behind humanoid robotics. Its robotics business just raised more than $900 million, reaching a post-money valuation above $6.3 billion. The round was led by IDG Capital, with Tencent, Alibaba and Gaorong… |
Today’s Stocks Berkshire HathawayBRK.B $502.87-2.13(-0.42%) JPMorgan ChaseJPM $355.95-1.68(-0.47%) VisaV $380.67-0.94(-0.24%) Eli Lilly & CoLLY $1,155.73-18.88(-1.61%) MastercardMA $592.53-2.77(-0.47%) Exxon MobilXOM $159.68+2.97(1.90%)… |
XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900M at a $6.3B post-money valuation. Largest single-round private raise in China's embodied AI sector. IDG Capital led. Tencent, Alibaba, and Gaorong joined. Worth understanding the structure. XPeng Inc.… |
The Robot Report Continue to Site Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Share XPeng’s Dogotix unit is developing the IRON humanoid robot. Source: XPeng Like other global automakers, XPeng Motors is branching into humanoid robots. The… |