XPeng robotics raises $900M+ in first round; HuggingFace explores $13B sale
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-08-25
Key AI news for Aug 24: XPeng's humanoid robotics arm closed its first funding round at over $900M (post-money valuation above $6.3B), led by IDG with Tencent and Alibaba as strategic investors — a record single round for China's embodied-AI sector. Unitree's market cap shed over ¥20B in a day. ByteDance merged TRAE and Coze into the Doubao system and will launch a unified AI office brand, "Doubao Work", as soon as this week.
On the money side: NVIDIA is in talks to invest in Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation, having earlier weighed a multi-billion tech licensing plus talent deal; HuggingFace is exploring a sale at up to $13B; Meta confirmed hiring veteran AI researcher Luke Metz into its Superintelligence Labs. In products and research: Alibaba's Wan 3.0 video model launched with 30-second clips and document-to-video input; Alibaba DAMO Academy's liver-cancer AI caught 15 missed tumors in a prospective trial, published in Nature Medicine. Sam Altman said he fears AI being controlled by a small few (or escaping control entirely); Xiaomi unveiled three XRING chips covering phones, AI acceleration, and autonomous driving.
Related event: Hugging Face Reportedly Exploring Sale at $13B+ Valuation(18 posts)→
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