Maxwell Zhou
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Maxwell Zhou is the founder and CEO of DeepRoute.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving company backed by Yunqi Capital. He has held the CEO role since the company's early days and continues to lead it as of 2025, representing DeepRoute.ai at major industry events including NVIDIA GTC and the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. In 2024, he was named to *Fortune* China's "40 Under 40" business elite list. Zhou has publicly framed DeepRoute.ai as a "transformer" rather than merely a participant in the autonomous driving space, and has emphasized the potential of end-to-end models as general-purpose AI systems for the physical world.
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Coverage
Chen Yu in Conversation with Ziwang, DeepRoute: AI in the Physical World — How to Tackle the Toughest Nuts to Crack | Yunqi Capital Doers
Bridging the Chasm from Virtual to Reality
DeepRoute.ai's Guang Zhou: The More You Understand AI, the Less You Doubt VLA | Yunqi Capital Doers Series
In the technological leap of intelligent driving, **Yunqi Capital portfolio company DeepRoute.ai has always been "the first to eat the crab."** From mapless solutions to end-to-end models, and now to the VLA (Vision-Language-Action) architecture that it's first to put into production, the company has repeatedly positioned itself at the forefront of inflection points.
Yunqi Capital | Yuanrong Qixing Surpasses 30,000 Units in Mass Production Deliveries for September, Setting Another Record
How VLAs Are Pioneering a New Future for Driving
DeepRoute's Self-Developed VLA Goes Live, First Batch of Co-Developed Mass-Production Vehicles Coming Soon | Yunqi Capital
Entering the Era of "Defensive Driving"
Yunqi Family at WAIC: New Products, New Trends, New Connections — All in One Place | Yunqi Capital x World Artificial Intelligence Conference
Models Get Smarter, Agents Work Harder, Robots Stay Busier
WAIC Opens Today, Yunqi Capital Lineup Is Ready | Yunqi Capital x World Artificial Intelligence Conference
This schedule is worth bookmarking.
Yunqi Capital Portfolio x GTC 2025: Spatial Intelligence, RoadAGI — What New Moves Are the Unicorns Pulling? | Yunqi Capital
Let AI Connect to the Physical World
Yunqi Capital's Back-to-Work Special: 2025 — Talking Confidence with Tech Founders and Partners
The Lunar New Year holiday just past was anything but quiet in the global tech world. DeepSeek — that "mysterious force from the East" — shattered the assumption that top-tier AI performance requires top-tier computing power, reshaping the global AI landscape through a series of technical innovations and planting a seed of confidence for the year of innovation ahead.
Yunqi Capital | Angel-round project *DeepRoute* raises $100 million in Series C1, accelerating mass production of advanced intelligent driving
will also explore large-scale Robotaxi operations
3 Yunqi Capital Portfolio Founders Named to *Fortune* "40 Under 40" China Business Elite List | Yunqi Capital News
Riding the Current with Innovators Beneath the Surface
DeepRoute.ai × NVIDIA GTC: End-to-end autonomous driving solution production cars on sale this year | Yunqi Capital
End-to-end models will be compatible with Thor — NVIDIA's next-generation autonomous driving chip set for mass production next year
Eight Yunqi Capital Portfolio Companies Named to *Hurun China Under 35s / Under 40s Entrepreneurs to Watch 2023* | Yunqi Capital News
Deep industry expertise, real value creation.
Accelerating the Global Expansion of Intelligent Driving Tech: Yunqi Capital's "Driver 3.0" Makes Its European Debut | Yunqi News
"China Solution" for Smart Mobility, Empowering Global Customers
"Yunqi Capital" Partners with Tsinghua University to Build More Energy-Efficient Autonomous Vehicles | Yunqi Capital Tech π
Compared to human driving, energy consumption is reduced by 6.9%.
