DeepCtrls, a Nanjing company focused on AI control for energy and infrastructure, has reported a Series B+ investment in the several-hundred-million-yuan range, led by CATL. TMTPost reported the funding on September 8 and said Fosun Capital, Taiping Innovation Investment, and GF Xinde participated, with existing shareholders including Source Code Capital increasing their stakes.
Beijing Qianjue Technology has announced a new A+ financing round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, adding fresh capital to a Chinese startup that wants to provide predictive world models for a range of robots.
Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing has completed a B3 financing round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, adding to a rapid series of investments in a Chinese company focused on embodied-AI systems for industrial work. The round closed in August and was announced on September 8, according to Beijing News.
Beijing Deep Space Matrix Technology has announced an angel financing round of more than 100 million yuan to support a planned space-AI computing business.
TokenRythm (Jiyuan Ludong, 极元律动), a Chinese AI startup founded by former Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab director Wang Yunhe, has released NeoHorse-1, its first Agent-Native model.
Wang Naiyan, Xiaomi Auto’s reported L3 autonomous-driving technology lead, has left the company and is exploring a new physical-AI venture, according to CnEVPost. The departure is one of the clearest recent examples of senior Chinese autonomous-driving talent turning toward robotics and embodied AI.
China’s AI diplomacy is moving from declarations toward a more practical format. A six-day Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building Workshop opened in Beijing on September 7, bringing senior officials and core AI policymakers from 37 Global South countries to China for lectures, site visits, and discussions about governance and applications.
China has placed artificial intelligence, algorithms, and AI-generated content inside its next national intellectual-property agenda. China’s 2026–2030 intellectual-property blueprint says the country will update IP treatment for emerging technologies while modernizing copyright policy for a digital economy. The policy direction was outlined in a September 8 Xinhua report carried by People’s Daily Online.
China’s integrated-circuit exports reached US$40.731 billion in August, up 129.8% from a year earlier, according to customs data reported by Nikkei Asia. The figure gives semiconductor trade an unusually prominent place in a broader export surge and offers another indication that global demand for computing hardware is shaping China’s industrial economy.
China has put a concrete number behind its next phase of AI infrastructure growth. A new Ministry of Industry and Information Technology plan sets 2030 capacity at 9,800 EFLOPS, a level that would require a sharp expansion from the 2,185 EFLOPS recorded at the end of June.
