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Autonomous Driving

Analysis of China’s autonomous driving industry, spanning ADAS, L2–L4 systems, regulatory approvals, and commercialization. This section tracks automaker strategies, software and hardware competition, and the path toward higher levels of vehicle autonomy.

Volkswagen Taps Horizon Robotics in White-Box AI Deal, Targeting L3 Autonomy by Late 2027

Horizon Robotics secures its first white-box AI foundation model licensing agreement with a foreign automaker, embedding its technology stack into Volkswagen's China architecture and unlocking a multi-year, billion-yuan revenue stream that analysts say reframes the company's global growth trajectory. The partnership, announced July

Automakers Seize the Robotaxi Narrative as Physical AI Race Reshapes Mobility Economics

Tesla, Xpeng and Geely deploy three divergent strategies to challenge pure-play autonomous driving firms, betting that vehicle-platform leverage and asset-monetization models can redefine the unit economics of driverless mobility. The robotaxi sector is undergoing a structural power shift: for the first time, established automakers are moving beyond

ByteDance Explores Autonomous Driving Push, Led by Seed World Model Team

ByteDance is quietly moving into the autonomous driving sector, with its world model research team taking the lead on an early-stage initiative that could signal the Chinese tech giant's broader ambitions in physical AI, according to an exclusive report. According to 36Kr's exclusive report published

Momenta Hong Kong IPO Anchors Physical AI Valuation With HK$6.8B Debut

Autonomous driving developer Momenta priced the "physical AI" narrative into a tangible public asset with its Hong Kong market debut, establishing a rigorous valuation baseline for a sector transitioning from venture capital speculation to public market price discovery in 2026. Trading under the ticker 6880, the July 8

ChinaBiz Briefing | Chinese Cars Pass Japan in Europe, DeepSeek Chips, Momenta IPO, Xiaomi SkyNomad

China's technology and industrial ambitions converged in a single trading day on July 8, 2026. From European roads to Hong Kong's stock exchange to China's semiconductor labs, the day's headlines trace a consistent arc: Chinese companies are no longer competing at the

Momenta Debuts as World's First "Physical AI" Pure-Play, Commanding HK$70B Valuation

Momenta — the Suzhou-headquartered autonomous driving and physical AI platform — began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 8, 2026, priced at HK$295.60 per share and opening to a market capitalization exceeding HK$70 billion (approximately US$9.7 billion). The listing, the largest among five

ChinaBiz Briefing | EV Margin Crunch, CXMT Snubs Apple, Momenta's $9B IPO

China's technology and industrial sectors are undergoing simultaneous inflection points on July 7, 2026. EV startups are discovering that volume without profitability is a liability, not an asset. A domestic chipmaker is rewriting the rules of supplier-customer power. An autonomous driving software company is making the case

Momenta’s $9B IPO Turns Autonomous Driving Into a Royalty Platform Story

China's autonomous driving software company Momenta is asking investors to price it like a platform landlord, not a technology contractor — and the market's early response suggests the argument is gaining traction. Momenta cleared its Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing hearing and formally launched its IPO at

Horizon Robotics Deploys HSD V2.0 Amid Customer Chip Self-Development Risk

Horizon Robotics rolled out its largest-ever software upgrade on June 30, but the update arrives as the Chinese autonomous driving chip supplier faces a structural reckoning: its two biggest customers are building the very technology they currently buy from it. The HSD V2.0 over-the-air update — spanning

ChinaBiz Briefing | Cambricon ¥1T, Kimi $31.5B, DeepSeek V4 Pricing, BYD Chip, 15 Embodied AI Unicorns

China's technology and capital markets closed the first half of 2026 with a cluster of milestones that collectively signal a sector in structural acceleration, not speculative drift. A domestic AI chipmaker crossed a valuation threshold that would have seemed implausible two years ago. A large language model startup

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