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Zhipu Reframes Itself as a Scalable AI Platform as API ARR Accelerates

Zhipu is trying to convince investors it is no longer a labor-heavy government contractor but a scalable AI platform—backed by management’s disclosure that March API annual recurring revenue (ARR) reached US$250 million, even as the company posted a 2025 adjusted net loss of RMB 3.2

Insta360 Targets “Everyday Carry” Creators With GO 3S Retro Kit as China’s Action-Cam Market Crowds

Insta360 is betting that nostalgia and frictionless portability can defend margins in China’s intensifying creator-hardware market, launching a GO 3S “waist-level viewfinder” retro kit priced from RMB 1,758 (US$244) with film-style filters and a 39-gram thumb camera aimed at street shooters and daily-

XPeng Pivots to Generative “World Models” to Scale Autonomy Testing as Simulation Miles Surge

XPeng is betting that generative AI can shrink the cost and time of validating advanced driver-assistance systems, publishing a technical report on its X-World “world model” and deploying it in development of the company’s second-generation VLA autonomous driving stack. The report marks a shift from conventional

Nio’s ES9 Teaser Puts Steer-by-Wire Chassis at the Center of Its 2026 Large-SUV Fight

Nio is positioning its upcoming ES9 electric SUV as a technology-led flagship that can stretch its battery-leasing pricing model across China’s premium SUV market, betting that a steer-by-wire “SkyRide” chassis and executive-focused cabin upgrades can defend margins even as competition intensifies. The ES9 is

What Unitree’s G1 Teardown Tells Us About the Humanoid Robot Business

Humanoid robots are moving from demos to early commercialization—but today’s market is still defined less by “factory workers” and more by entertainment, education, and data collection. A teardown of Unitree’s G1 (a compact humanoid sold in multiple SKUs) provides a useful lens into what is structurally true

Morgan Stanley: Alibaba’s Cloud Price Hike Is the “Easy” Part—Capacity and Monetization Are the Real Tests

Morgan Stanley, in a March 31, 2026 update following its “China Summit 2026,” argues that Alibaba Group Holding is setting up a near-term cloud re-acceleration via price increases—while insisting its longer-term profitability framework remains intact. The note matters because it draws a clean line between what’

China’s Robotaxi Tipping Point: HSBC Sees 500,000 Vehicles By 2030—And A Half-Trillion-Yuan Prize

HSBC Global Research, in a 31 March 2026 report on China autonomous-driving equities, is calling what many investors have waited years to hear: China’s robotaxi industry is “approaching a tipping point.” The timing matters because public-market robotaxi names have already sold off year-to-date—HSBC notes

Huawei Profit Surges as Automotive Division Outpaces, Cloud Revenue Drops

Automotive Profits Bolster Huawei Amid Cloud Revenue Slide Huawei Technologies posted robust earnings for 2026, with its automotive segment emerging as the highest profit contributor, offsetting a contraction in its cloud business revenue. The Chinese tech giant's latest financial disclosure offers investors critical insight into its shifting revenue

ChinaBiz Briefing | Pony.ai Profitability Milestone, Alibaba Qwen3.5, Pop Mart Debate

China’s tech and industrial sectors are entering a more mature phase defined by profitability, AI capability upgrades and shifting investor expectations. Autonomous driving is moving from unit economics to scale, while AI competition intensifies across multimodal models. At the same time, capital markets are reassessing valuations across EV supply

Pony.ai Hits Unit Profitability in Robotaxis, Shifting the Debate to Scale

Pony.ai says it has turned unit economics positive for robotaxis in both Guangzhou and Shenzhen—an inflection point that shifts the investor debate from “can robotaxis make money?” to “how fast can the model scale” as the company targets more than 3,000 vehicles and deployments in over 20