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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.

Momenta Clears Europe's Safety Bar With XHEART-QNX Stack — Now It Needs Orders

A tripartite alliance combining Chinese AI algorithms, a domestically designed automotive SoC and BlackBerry's safety OS has cleared the industry's highest functional safety bar — but the harder work of winning overseas orders is only beginning. The partnership, announced August 19, 2026, brings together Momenta, the Beijing-

ChinaBiz Briefing | Baidu's AI Pivot, Unitree's Historic IPO, Memory Super-Cycle

China's technology and capital markets delivered a dense cluster of structural signals on August 19: a legacy internet giant crossed the AI revenue majority threshold even as its profits collapsed; a humanoid robot maker set a STAR Market subscription record on its first trading day; two domestic chip

Pony.ai Robotaxi Revenue Surges 691%, Signaling Shift From Burn-to-Scale to Earn-to-Scale

Pony.ai is rewriting the economics of autonomous driving: its second-quarter 2026 results show robotaxi revenue exploding 691% year-on-year while operating losses contracted by more than 100 percentage points, a rare combination in a sector historically defined by runaway cash consumption. The Nasdaq-listed autonomous vehicle company

ChinaBiz Briefing | Alibaba’s AI Pivot, Horizon Dethrones Nvidia, CATL Divide

Today’s developments highlight a ruthless reallocation of capital within China’s tech sector toward AI and core infrastructure. From Alibaba liquidating profitable legacy assets to fund GPU procurement, to Horizon Robotics displacing Nvidia in domestic auto chips, the focus is entirely on compute and supply-chain self-reliance. For

Horizon Robotics Dethrones Nvidia in China's L2+ ADAS Market, Targets Leadership With J7

Horizon Robotics has overtaken Nvidia to become the largest automotive intelligence chip supplier in China's L2+ advanced driver-assistance market, capturing 32% share in Q2 2026 — a structural shift that CEO Yu Kai is leveraging to stake a bold claim on next-generation autonomous driving silicon. The milestone,

Pony.ai and Uber Expand European Robotaxis to 2,000 Vehicles Across Five Cities

China's autonomous driving industry crossed a strategic threshold on Thursday as Pony.ai and Uber Technologies announced the deployment of more than 2,000 robotaxis across five European cities, the largest single robotaxi fleet commitment in the region to date. The expansion, announced August 14, 2026, builds directly

ChinaBiz Briefing | Alibaba Open-Sources Qwen3.8, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Tencent Bets Big on AI

August 13, 2026 marks one of the densest single-day news cycles in China's tech calendar this year. Three major AI releases landed within hours of each other, Tencent revealed a capex figure that stunned analysts, a smartphone startup redefined what a premium handset can do mechanically, and

WeRide's Asset-Light Pivot Validates as ADAS Revenue Soars 26x, Overseas Sales Jump 164%

WeRide delivered its strongest revenue quarter on record in Q2 2026, with overseas income surging 164% year-on-year and its advanced driver-assistance business generating 26 times the revenue of the prior-year period, offering the clearest evidence yet that the Guangzhou-based autonomous driving company is transitioning from

China's Smart Driving Tech Eyes Europe: What's Changing and Why It Matters

How a regulatory shift is giving Chinese ADAS companies their first real opening in the European automotive market What Is This About? For years, China's edge in the global auto industry was primarily about electric vehicles — batteries, powertrains, and cost-efficient manufacturing. But a quieter, more technically complex

ChinaBiz Briefing | Unitree IPO, Cambricon Miss, Alibaba-Apple AI Deal, Chery Export Surge

China's technology and automotive sectors delivered a cluster of structurally significant signals on August 10 — from the world's first humanoid robot pure-play listing to a revenue miss at the country's leading AI chipmaker, an accidental confirmation of Alibaba's Apple Intelligence partnership,

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