Moonshot AI has launched a financial-services solution for Kimi that combines professional data connections, task-specific workflow tools, and enterprise controls for institutional users.
Shenzhen Sight Tower Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (视塔机器人) disclosed a Pre-A financing round on September 16, with the amount not made public. The English name used here follows the English-name field in a Qichacha corporate record. The contemporaneous Chinese reports call the company 视塔机器人 and do not identify a separate English commercial brand.
Beijing Shihe Technology Co., Ltd., known internationally as RobotPlusPlus, announced a Series C financing round as part of a global disclosure on September 16. Chinese coverage first reported the round on July 21, so the September disclosure is an international announcement rather than a new closing on that date, according to GlobeNewswire.
Shanghai Zaofu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., the autonomous-driving business associated with Hello, announced a financing round of about US$100 million on September 16.
ByteDance’s effort to take artificial intelligence beyond content platforms and consumer software has produced a large new financing event in drug development. Anew Labs, an AI drug-discovery company spun out of ByteDance, completed a US$290 million first independent round, according to Reuters.
Xi’an Blue Worm Embodied Intelligent Technology has launched a modular humanoid robot called Mantis Standard, or Xiaobai in Chinese, with a starting price of 9,800 yuan. The September 14 release enters a crowded Chinese robotics market where companies are competing on hardware capability, production readiness, price, and the promise of future AI-enabled usefulness.
China has released a new industry standard focused on the data that artificial-intelligence algorithms use in brain-computer-interface medical devices. The standard, YY/T 2029-2026, addresses quality requirements and evaluation methods for EEG datasets used by AI algorithms. It is scheduled to take effect on September 1, 2027.
Most AI companion products are designed around a one-to-one relationship: one person, one assistant, and an evolving personalized interaction. Twoo, a product developed by Shanghai I Don’t Care Technology Co., Ltd., is trying a different format.
ByteDance’s cloud division, Volcano Engine, is reportedly preparing a standalone enterprise storage service called ADrive. The planned product matters because it is framed not as an ordinary online drive but as “Agentic AI storage,” a common environment for files, memory, skills, people, and AI agents.
Financial AI has attracted models, chat interfaces, and market-data tools, but the harder commercial question is whether professional investors will use AI inside research workflows that carry high costs for errors.
Hangzhou ZhiZhen Technology has completed a 53 million yuan Pre-A financing round, adding another specialist medical-AI company to China’s crowded but uneven health-technology market. The company develops WiseDiag, a medical large-language-model product, alongside healthcare AI solutions for institutions and Hao Ban AI for individuals and families. Xinhua Daily reported the round on September 15.
China’s embodied-AI investment cycle is increasingly reaching beyond robot brands and into the parts that determine how machines move. Nanjing Encos Intelligent Technology, which uses the ENCOS brand and is also known as Inx in some reports, completed a Series B financing round of more than 300 million yuan on September 14.
Honor is trying to move the smartphone AI contest below the app layer. At its September 15 Global Developer Conference, the company introduced MagicOS 11, an operating-system update built around what it calls a system-level Agent Harness architecture.
ByteDance released the consumer version of Doubao Phone Assistant on September 14, taking its mobile AI assistant from product integration toward a more visible consumer rollout. The release is anchored to nubia’s NaviX Ultra, a ZTE-made handset scheduled for commercial release September 16.
WeChat is running a limited gray-scale test of an AI Processing button inside its image-sending interface, according to TechNode’s report on the trial. The feature is not broadly available, and the current test should be read as a controlled experiment rather than a public launch.
Meituan and McDonald’s China have launched a tightly defined drone-delivery route in Shanghai, placing fast food inside a controlled aerial corridor rather than a doorstep network.
Xuntu Technology has announced a Series B financing round exceeding 300 million yuan, adding another sizable deal to China’s financial AI sector. The company, formally 讯兔科技（上海）有限公司, said the proceeds will support continued investment in models and products, along with expansion in both domestic and overseas markets.
China’s National Data Administration is moving embodied-intelligence data standards higher on its policy agenda, while leaving the technical rulebook for later.
Eagle Cloud, also known as Yigeyun, has closed a Series B+ financing round of nearly 100 million yuan, adding fresh capital to its work on security governance for AI agents. The round follows the company’s Series B financing by four months and is intended to support two priorities: AI-agent security-governance infrastructure and overseas expansion.
China’s smart-glasses market generated 1.88 billion yuan in revenue during the first half of 2026, up 98.7% from a year earlier, according to data from RUNTO Technology cited in a September 13 36Kr analysis. All-channel sales reached 909,000 units, up 85.5% year over year.
