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  • 2026-07-212026-07-19

    Horizon vs. Momenta: The race for the driver’s seat in autonomous driving

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    Today’s Yangtze funding roundup: AI memory, satellite comms…

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    China’s first city-scale green token factory lands in Changzhou

  • 2026-07-202026-07-19

    Uniubi AI debuts world’s first 720-degree backflipping robot at WAIC

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    Alibaba showcases AI stack from chips to research agents at WAIC 2026

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    China unveils AI roadmap for earthquake monitoring, early warning

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Leapmotor hits 1.5 million deliveries as expansion kicks into higher gear

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-182026-06-1803 mins

The company now operates in more than 40 countries and regions, with over 2,000 sales and service outlets globally, including more than 950 overseas.

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Nanjing vs Hangzhou: a split map of China’s AI future

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-182026-06-1808 mins

Many view the Nanjing-Hangzhou race as yet another example of China’s relentless intercity competition, but it is not a zero-sum game on closer inspection.

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Alibaba unveils HappyOyster 1.0 interactive world model

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-182026-06-1803 mins

Unlike traditional text-to-video tools that render a fixed output after a prompt, HappyOyster continuously responds to user inputs during generation, allowing scenes to evolve in real time.

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Robot ‘cyber paw patrol’ guards Mexico World Cup stadium

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-182026-06-1802 mins

The World Cup deployment adds to a growing track record of sports-event use cases for DEEP Robotics.

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Alibaba expands cloud services to Paris, Johor as global data demand rises

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-182026-06-1703 mins

The buildout forms part of Alibaba’s previously announced $53 billion investment plan in AI and cloud infrastructure.

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eVTOL startup ZeroG bags $74M as Hefei bets on low altitude economy

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-172026-06-1704 mins

To date, ZeroG has completed nine financing rounds, bringing its total publicly disclosed funding to approximately 1.2 billion yuan.

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Insurers commit $27 billion to Jiangsu amid industrial upgrade

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-172026-06-1705 mins

Provincial officials said insurance funds already deployed in the province had exceeded 500 billion yuan by 2025.

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Anhui plans $14 billion fund cluster in robotics hub build-out

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-172026-06-1704 mins

The draft sets ambitious targets: by 2030, Anhui aims to rank among China’s top tier in humanoid robot output and place industrial robot production among the national leaders.

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EDA startup Leda raises $44M, ramps up chip design localization

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-172026-06-1704 mins

The push for domestic alternatives is driven by concerns over supply-chain vulnerability, with EDA tools seen as a potential chokepoint in China’s semiconductor ecosystem.

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Maniformer closes angel+ funding to scale physical AI data infrastructure

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-172026-06-1704 mins

The funding comes as embodied AI developers face a shortage of high-quality training data, inconsistent standards and fragmented datasets.

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  • China’s first city-scale green token factory lands in Changzhou
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