Tag: China
Autonomy
China Now Has 15 Million Cars That Can Follow a Route on Their Own, and 61 Million With L2
As of August, about 61 million passenger cars in China had Level 2 driver assistance, and about 15 million of them had navigate-on-autopilot (NOA), China's CAICT said at the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference. MIIT also floated new standards and a second batch of L3 pilots.
AI
Alibaba’s Map Team Built a Humanoid Brain From 500 Hours of People Doing Chores
Amap and Alibaba's Token Hub have released λ0, a whole-body humanoid model trained mainly on 500 hours of first-person video and motion data from people doing everyday tasks. The team says it runs zero-shot on a Unitree G1 with a 62.5% success rate, though nobody has reproduced it yet.
EV Industry
Volkswagen’s Xpeng-Powered ID. UNYX 09 Launches in China From 169,900 Yuan ($25,400)
VW Anhui launched the ID. UNYX 09 on Oct. 24, a 5-meter electric fastback with Xpeng's Turing chip and VLA driver assistance, a 92-kWh CATL LFP pack and up to 755 km of CLTC range, priced from 179,900 yuan (about $26,900), or 169,900 yuan (about $25,400) in a Double 11 deal.
AI
Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro Ranks Fourth in the World, and Its Weights Go Public by Nov. 4
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a 1M-token context that Artificial Analysis ranks fourth on its Intelligence Index. Weights are due by Nov. 4, prices are 33% lower, and Moonshot says it deliberately cut its hacking skills.
AI
Unitree Wants Robots That Teach Themselves, and Its Founder Says Physical AI’s ‘ChatGPT Moment’ Could Come Next Year
At Unitree's World Physical AI Conference in Hangzhou, founder Wang Xingxing said the company is researching a self-evolution loop where AI writes, simulates, tests and rewrites robot code, and that embodied AI's ChatGPT moment could come as early as next year.
Energy
NIO’s Firefly Gets a 60-kWh Battery and 560 km of Range, and Existing Owners Can Swap Up Too
NIO's Firefly launched a 60-kWh pack on Oct. 23 that lifts CLTC range from 420 km to 560 km with no change in size or weight. It starts at 136,800 yuan, and existing owners can upgrade through a battery swap for 17,000 yuan.
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Ship 42 Aces Its Static Fires: Starship Flight 15 Is Cleared on the Stand as Florida Goes Quiet for Starship
SpaceX says Ship 42 finished a full six-engine static fire and a single-engine deorbit-burn test, so both Flight 15 stages are done on the stand ahead of a two-stage catch attempt. Florida, meanwhile, pauses Falcon 9 for six weeks to get Pad 39A ready for Starship.
Tesla
Tesla Is ‘Officially Coming’ to Vietnam, and Its First Five Job Ads Include One Very Busy Charging Hire
Tesla's Asia Pacific recruiter says the company is "officially coming to Vietnam" and has posted five local jobs: sales, service, HR, purchasing and a charging developer expected to juggle 20-plus sites. No launch date, models or prices yet.
Stock Watch
Stock Watch: Enphase Craters 16%, Tesla Slips Off $407, Tokyo Chips Keep Climbing
Enphase plunged 16.03% after its miss and soft guide hit the regular session, Tesla gave back 0.80% to $404.22, and Renesas led Tokyo with a 7.47% jump as the Nikkei added 686 points.
EV Industry
China’s NEV Retail Sales Fall 13% in Oct. 1-25 as Factories Keep Shipping
CPCA data shows China's NEV retail sales at 753,000 for Oct. 1-25, down 13% year over year, while wholesale rose 3% to 1.008 million. Overall car retail fell 26%, keeping the NEV share at 65.7%, and inventory pressure is building.
Energy
Xpeng’s Iron Humanoid Gets Its Solid-State Batteries Before It Gets a Production Start
Xpeng VP Gu Jie says solid-state batteries designed for the Iron humanoid robot have entered small-batch production, while Iron itself is still pre-SOP. Mass production is targeted for the end of 2026, with Xpeng stores first in 2027.