CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
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ByteDance internal re-org: Feishu team absorbed by Doubao, enterprise sales moved to Volcano Engine
This is an internal ByteDance restructuring, not a startup transaction: the Lark/Feishu productivity team is being folded into the Doubao AI product org, while Volcano Engine takes over B2B distribution.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 15 17
Sarvam full-stack pivot: Sovereign India chooses vertical integration
Sarvam AI moves from the model to the full stack - model + product + distribution - in a market where public procurement conditions access to data.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:51 14 16
Nvidia + KAIST: $300M for an AI research center in Korea
The agreement seals Korea's integration into the "Nvidia stack" - researchers, engineers, HBM wafers and inference fleet.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 6 8
WeRide WITT: Autonomous Driving Adopts the "Foundation Model" Format
WeRide unveils WITT at WAIC 2026: a "physical AI" foundation model that is multimodal and unified around "minimal physical facts." The approach borrows from the LLM architecture.
Jul 17, 2026 at 14:19 7 8
Apple explores AI chip startup acquisitions: the vertical integration playbook turns to inference silicon
Apple is exploring acquisitions of AI chip startups, sources tell Tech in Asia. The reading: Apple is preparing an inference-silicon path that does not run through Nvidia.
Jul 16, 2026 at 08:48 17 8
Benchmark Stripe: agents connect APIs, they do not validate them
A public benchmark by Stripe shows that AI agents write integrations that compile, run, and silently fail on the edge cases that matter.
Jul 15, 2026 at 19:28 32 6
Xiaomi opens Robotics-U0: a unified embodied 38B model, open source
Xiaomi publishes an open-source embodied generative model with 38 billion parameters that unifies four robotic tasks into a single architecture. The race for embodied backbones takes a step towards openness.
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 6 10