Overview
- Beijing’s 2025 AI industry white paper shows core output up 25.3% year over year in the first half and expects the city’s total to surpass ¥450 billion for the full year.
- NDRC spokesperson Li Chao said embodied‑intelligence firms are expanding more than 50% annually and surpassed 150 companies, with new standards and access/exit rules planned to curb duplication and support orderly growth.
- Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun expects humanoid robots to be widely employed in the company’s factories within five years, calling household demand an even larger opportunity.
- Lenovo says over 170 intelligent agents will be embedded across its business processes in the 2025/26 fiscal year as it deepens AI integration.
- HSBC estimates OpenAI faces about a $207 billion funding gap by 2030 due to compute costs, underscoring infrastructure pressures as reports of a MediaTek–Google TPU co‑design drove MediaTek’s best week since 2002.