Raymuse Technology has announced an angel financing round worth tens of millions of yuan for bibo, a compact non-verbal companion robot. 36Kr reported that Trends Media Group and Hongyi Asset Management Group led the round. Raymuse is the English brand used by Hangzhou Leimeng Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州镭萌科技有限责任公司).
China has formally expanded its job catalog to reflect the growing presence of embodied AI and software agents in the workplace. On September 9, labor authorities issued an update that adds 11 occupations and 23 specialties to China’s existing occupational classifications.
Wuwen AI, whose Chinese name is Wuwen Zhike (无问智科) and which is operated by Zhejiang Wuwen Zhixing Technology Co., Ltd., has announced a Series A financing round worth several hundred million yuan.
Nano-Core Chip, also known as NCC, has announced a 1 billion yuan C1 financing round to support its work on 3D computing-in-memory chips. The Hangzhou company says it is developing a 3D-CIM architecture that combines DRAM-based near-memory computing, SRAM computing-in-memory, and RISC-V heterogeneous computing.
Alibaba.com says its Accio e-commerce agent has passed US$60 million in annual recurring revenue after five months on the market. The business-to-business platform also says Accio has more than 60,000 paid users whose average spending exceeds US$1,000.
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, a compact open-weights language model designed for local deployment, tool use, and agentic workflows. The model has 2,516,756,480 parameters, a 131,072-token context window, and an Apache-2.0 license, according to the OpenBMB model card. The release reflects a different direction from the race for ever-larger frontier models.
China’s humanoid-robot sector has attracted capital, founders, and public-market attention at an exceptional pace. Now it may face a stricter test before reaching an IPO. Chinese regulators have reportedly given informal guidance to some banks and companies that raises the approval threshold for humanoid-robot listings after Unitree Robotics’ volatile market debut, according to Reuters.
Alibaba Cloud is trying to make its AI agents useful beyond Alibaba’s own software. Its updated QoderWake tool lets users create “digital employees” from a single line describing a role, then deploy those assistants inside DingTalk, ByteDance’s Feishu, or Tencent’s WeCom. The cross-platform approach was reported by the South China Morning Post.
JD Logistics has set a five-year automation target covering 100,000 delivery drones, 1 million unstaffed vehicles, and 3 million robots. Together, the targets outline a supply chain with far more machine-led operations.
JD Cloud and Moore Threads have announced a plan that would test how far China’s domestic AI hardware can move beyond isolated deployments. At the 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference on September 9, the partners said they intend to build a 100,000-card intelligent-computing cluster based on Moore Threads’ all-function GPUs.
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.
