Cailian Press’s Venture Capital Tong, citing its Zhizhong data, counted 143 domestic financing events across sectors during September 19–25. The tracked deals carried approximately 8.337 billion yuan in disclosed aggregate financing, according to Cailian Press. The figures offer a useful weekly view of where private capital appeared in China, but they are not an official government census or an AI-only tally.
The 143-event figure is an all-sector total, not a count of AI financings. Within its statistical scope, the snapshot placed advanced manufacturing, integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and health care among the relatively active areas. It also singled out embodied intelligence, medical devices, innovative drugs, semiconductor materials, AI industry applications, aerospace, and AI4S as sub-sectors drawing investor interest.
Chips led the disclosed money while early rounds led the deal count
The sector picture was broader than the AI narrative alone. Integrated circuits had the largest disclosed financing total among the areas compared, at approximately 2.660 billion yuan. That is a sector figure, not an AI-chip subtotal. The available snapshot does not provide a separate dollar total for artificial intelligence or embodied intelligence, so it cannot establish either as the week’s largest destination for capital.
Seed and angel financings were the most numerous category, with 48 events, or about 34% of the total. Series A followed with 39 events, or about 27%. By disclosed amount, Series B ranked first at approximately 3.4 billion yuan, followed by Series A at approximately 2.040 billion yuan. These are the weekly tracker’s reported counts and disclosed amounts across stages.
The geography was concentrated in familiar technology and manufacturing centers. Guangdong recorded 27 financing events, the highest provincial-level count among the active regions listed. Shenzhen had 22 recipient companies, while Beijing and Shanghai each had 20. Those figures describe the locations captured by the private-data tracking product, rather than the complete distribution of every financing event in China.
This mix of sectors, stages, and locations shows the breadth of the tracker’s reported activity across advanced manufacturing, integrated circuits, health care, aerospace, and AI industry applications. It does not provide a precise AI-only financing estimate.
Deep Blue Aerospace and Langxi show the range of the week’s deals
The largest disclosed event in the snapshot came from outside the AI category. Cailian Press reported that Deep Blue Aerospace (深蓝航天) completed two financing rounds totaling nearly 2 billion yuan. Cailian Press said the proceeds were intended for research, commercialization, and industrialization of two families of recoverable and reusable launch vehicles. The report treated this as a company-announced financing, and no exact amount was provided.
Deep Blue Aerospace’s transaction illustrates why the all-sector qualification is essential. Aerospace appeared among the areas attracting attention, and the company’s financing materially influenced the week’s reported capital total. Yet the rocket work described in the snapshot concerns reusable liquid launch vehicles and commercial space activity, not AI development. Counting it inside the weekly baseline does not make the overall figure an AI financing measure.
Langxi Technology (朗矽科技) supplied another semiconductor example. The company completed a nearly 200 million yuan Pre-A+ round, with proceeds intended for a silicon passive-component chip platform, team expansion, and purchases of key equipment. The financing fits the week’s advanced-manufacturing and integrated-circuit emphasis. The available descriptions do not identify Langxi as an AI company, so its relevance here is as semiconductor context rather than as an AI deal.
A large aerospace round, a semiconductor equipment and platform investment, and numerous seed or angel financings can coexist in the same weekly count. The resulting total measures reported activity across a venture ecosystem with different capital needs, not a single investment theme.
EastFrontier’s coverage of Fine Motion’s withdrawn IPO addresses a separate robotics-capital-markets event. The weekly snapshot does not establish a broader financing trend for robotics, but it places embodied intelligence among the areas investors were watching.
XIRRA puts physical AI at the center of the AI-specific story
The clearest AI-focused example in the snapshot is XIRRA / 息壤开物. Cailian Press reported that the company completed consecutive seed and angel financings totaling several hundred million yuan and reached a $500 million valuation. Dunhong Asset led the rounds, with follow-on participation reported from Huakong Fund, Sanhua Holdings, Yingu Capital, Zeran Capital, Benjian Fund, and Biaopu Investment.
A separate 36Kr report independently reported the seed and angel financing stages, identified Dunhong Asset as lead investor, confirmed the $500 million valuation, and described the intended uses of proceeds. XIRRA plans to use the money to pretrain a native physical-AI model, build real-world physical-interaction data, recruit research and development talent, and conduct scenario validation.
XIRRA’s stated plan combines a model effort with data construction, hiring, and testing in scenarios involving physical interaction. It is a financing and research agenda, however, not evidence that a finished product is already commercially deployed, benchmarked, or controlling a robot.
EastFrontier’s coverage of Mifeng Pai’s crowdsourcing effort concerns a separate physical-AI data effort. The weekly tracker still stops short of quantifying an AI-only or physical-AI-only funding category.
EastFrontier’s report on XIRRA’s early capital is separate historical background. The reports do not provide an AI-only subtotal for the wider market, and they do not turn the weekly 143-event count into a robotics statistic.
The weekly data is not a definitive ranking of AI investment. AI and embodied intelligence were listed among active areas, while integrated circuits led disclosed financing totals and all sectors contributed to the 143 events. XIRRA provides a concrete reported physical-AI financing, but the weekly snapshot is best read as a record of varied capital flows rather than an AI-only market measure.