Xiaomi’s Lei Jun Tore Down His Own Car on Livestream After Two Fatal SU7 Crashes
Facing scrutiny after two fatal crashes involving Xiaomi's SU7, founder Lei Jun live-streamed a teardown of the company's YU7 SUV…
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Li Auto’s CEO Spent Four Hours Live-Streaming a Teardown of His Own SUV to Prove a Point
Facing four straight months of sales declines, Li Auto founder Li Xiang live-streamed a four-hour teardown of the next-generation L6…
XPeng’s He Xiaopeng Wants to Sell You a Flying Car and a Humanoid Robot — Not Just an EV
At a July 2026 Munich event, XPeng founder He Xiaopeng repositioned his EV company as a 'Physical AI' supplier, announcing…
NIO’s William Li Finally Delivers a Profit — After 11 Straight Years of Losses
NIO founder William Li posted the company's first-ever quarterly operating profit in early 2026, and is now telling employees full-year…
BYD’s Wang Chuanfu Tells Investors to Be Patient — Then Bets $13.8 Billion on Self-Driving Cars
With BYD's stock down 33% over the past year, founder and chairman Wang Chuanfu used the company's 2026 annual meeting…
Cheetah Mobile’s Fu Sheng Says AI Agents Have a ‘1% Wall’ Problem. His Robotics Unit Just Grew 176% Proving He’s Right About the Fix.
Cheetah Mobile founder Fu Sheng argued at WAIC 2026 that general-purpose AI agents hit a ceiling well short of enterprise-grade…
DiDi Just Dropped ‘Chuxing’ From Its Name After 13 Years. Cheng Wei Is Betting the Future Is Robotaxis, Not Ride-Hailing.
DiDi founder and CEO Cheng Wei rebranded the app from DiDi Chuxing to simply DiDi in June 2026 while the…
360’s Zhou Hongyi Called a Rival AI Model ‘A Cyber Nuclear Weapon.’ Weeks Later He Gave Away 100 Million Tokens to Prove His Own AI Works.
Zhou Hongyi warned in June 2026 that a foreign AI model was a 'cyber nuclear weapon' China had no access…
Alibaba Cloud’s Founder Says China Doesn’t Need Bigger AI Models — It Needs More Creative People to Use Them
Wang Jian, the founder of Alibaba Cloud who now directs Zhejiang Lab, argued in a 2025 Bloomberg interview that China's…
Zoom’s Eric Yuan Says He Wants a Three-Day Workweek by 2031 — Backed by an AI Business That’s Actually Growing Again
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan told The Wall Street Journal in April 2026 that AI agents could shrink the…