MaHui Spotlight | Over a Dozen MaHui Members Showcase AI Hardware Strength at WAIC

The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), a premier global event in artificial intelligence, concluded in Shanghai on July 29. Under the theme "Intelligent Era, Shared Future," this year's conference drew over 800 exhibitors and 305,000 offline visitors. The speaker lineup was unprecedented, featuring 12 recipients of top international honors including Nobel laureate in Physics and Turing Award winner Geoffrey E. Hinton. More than 100 products made their global or China debut, while 32 projects were signed with total investment reaching 45 billion yuan — comprehensively showcasing the latest breakthroughs in AI large models, intelligent robotics, embodied AI, and other frontier domains.

Unitree, Li Auto, Moonshot AI, Galaxy Universal, Mech-Mind, Keenon Robotics, LynkSoul, Biren Technology, DeepWise, Kunyou Optoelectronics, Sand.ai, and Nutshell Therapeutics — over a dozen MaHui portfolio companies — appeared at WAIC, drawing considerable attention through new product launches, live demonstrations, and scenario showcases. Their strong technical and product capabilities made them among the highlights of this year's exhibition. Below is a roundup of key MaHui member activities at WAIC:

1

Unitree

Showcasing Multiple Humanoid Robots

On the opening day of WAIC, Unitree presented its combat-competition humanoid robot G1, quadruped robot B2, and Go2, all centered around its core mission of "consumer robot普及" (popularizing consumer robots).

G1 stands 1.32 meters tall and weighs 35 kg, with 29 flexible joints and intelligent balance algorithms enabling various combat maneuvers — it can autonomously stand up within seconds of falling. B2 is an industrial-grade quadruped suited for multiple sectors, featuring high speed, heavy payload capacity, and broad environmental adaptability including stair climbing and complex terrain navigation. Go2 is a consumer-grade biomimetic quadruped capable of advanced movements, integrating voice AI large models with enhanced perception systems for home and other applications.

On the eve of WAIC, Unitree also officially released its third humanoid robot, the "Unitree R1 Intelligent Companion," starting at 39,900 yuan. Though not exhibited, it attracted significant attention for its flexibility and ultra-lightweight design. Unitree founder Xingxing Wang noted during a forum dialogue: "Personally, I feel that in the first half of this year, China's intelligent robotics-related industries grew at least 50% to 100% on average."

2

Li Auto

Exhibiting the MEGA Family Tech Flagship MPV

Li Auto's MEGA Family Tech Flagship MPV made its appearance at WAIC. The vehicle features the Li Tongxue intelligent agent capable of autonomously understanding objectives, planning, and executing complex commands — users can complete everything from ordering coffee to payment through voice instructions, making the car noticeably "smarter."

3

Moonshot AI

Debuting Flagship Model Kimi2

As a representative of China's "Big Model Six Tigers," Moonshot AI made its first WAIC appearance, spotlighting its open-source flagship model Kimi2. Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, Kimi2 demonstrates strong natural language processing and multi-turn dialogue capabilities, with notable performance in code generation and agent task handling.

At the conference, Kimi demonstrated real-time document analysis, code generation, and cross-domain Q&A, attracting numerous attendees for interactive experiences. The live "AI business writing + intelligent spreadsheet analysis" integrated workflow vividly illustrated AI's deep evolution as a workplace tool.

4

Galaxy Universal

Demonstrating Multi-Scenario Capabilities

At its dedicated WAIC booth, Galaxy Universal concentrated on showcasing core strengths and diverse deployment scenarios spanning retail, industry, logistics, and urban services. Its "Skill Arena" featured a 1:1 replica of a real supermarket environment — the wheeled humanoid robot Galbot, powered by the end-to-end embodied large model GroceryVLA, achieved round-the-clock autonomous operation, completing the full process of product recognition, grasping, and packaging. It also autonomously retrieved and delivered items during leadership tours. Galbot earned the "Treasure of the Exhibition" designation for its end-to-end embodied large model capabilities.

At its main booth, Galbot demonstrated multi-scenario capabilities: in retail, GroceryVLA enabled precise operation in complex supermarket environments; in industry, it performed automotive parts SPS sorting; in logistics, intelligent tote handling; and in urban services, a robotic dog autonomously collected litter. Additionally, Galaxy Universal's "Synthetic Data-Driven Cross-Industry Embodied Foundation Model" project won the 2025 WAIC SAIL Award.

Galaxy Universal founder and CTO He Wang delivering a technical presentation at the booth

5

Mech-Mind

Exhibiting Full-Stack Technical Products

Mech-Mind made its first comprehensive WAIC presentation of embodied "eye-brain-hand" full-stack capabilities and nearly 10 cutting-edge application units spanning intelligent manufacturing and smart logistics. Demonstrations included dual-arm robot clothes folding and sorting massive quantities of random objects, humanoid robot shelf picking in collaboration with MaHui member Stande, single-arm robots executing complex tasks, registration-free arbitrary object generalization grasping (at 1,600 pieces/hour), transparent object high-speed precision sorting, sheet metal deep-bin accurate feeding, and high-speed small-part random feeding.

Mech-Mind also showcased its self-developed Mech-Eye high-precision 3D cameras, Mech-GPT multimodal large model, and Mech-Hand five-finger dexterous hand — becoming one of the most popular exhibition areas through technical frontier, application richness, and task diversity.

Mech-Mind × Stande: Humanoid robot shelf picking

6

Keenon Robotics Unveils

Bipedal Humanoid Embodied Service Robot

Keenon officially launched the newest member of its embodied XMAN family — the bipedal humanoid embodied service robot XMAN-F1 — making its global debut during WAIC. The product enables intelligent collaboration with Keenon's other service robot form factors, leveraging the proprietary ProS vertical domain model to break service boundaries and further完善 Keenon's multi-form-factor collaborative ecosystem.

XMAN-F1 captivated visitors with its human-like movements and precise service workflows, smoothly preparing popcorn and mixing various iced beverages to customer specifications — including Sprite, Coke, with or without ice — showcasing the possibilities of future service.

7

LynkSoul

Personalized AI Companion Bringing Human-like Perception and Real-time Dialogue

During WAIC, LynkSoul showcased its core product HakkoAI, highlighting real-time voice chat, gaming advice, and emotional companionship capabilities. Since its 2024 beta launch, the product has been used by 8 million gamers worldwide, currently supporting thousands of game scenarios across dozens of titles.

HakkoAI is a leading product in the AI-Gaming space, leveraging advanced self-developed LLMs to create diverse gaming companion characters including 2D IP figures, top content creator avatars, and virtual streamer integrations. It remembers players' gaming experiences, not only accompanying them during games but also watching shows and working alongside them after accumulating shared memories, with a mobile app for on-the-go access — becoming players' AI gaming buddy and life companion.

8

Biren Technology

Winning WAIC's Highest Honor for the Second Time

At WAIC, Biren Technology, in collaboration with Lightelligence and ZTE, won the conference's highest honor — the 2025 SAIL Award (Super AI Leader) — for its "Distributed OCS All-Optical Interconnect Chip and Supernode Application Innovation." This marked the company's second win following its 2022 award.

In the collaborative "LightSphere X" solution, Biren Technology contributed its Biren 166L GPU based on an original self-developed architecture, employing multi-compute chiplets with CoWoS 2.5D packaging co-design to achieve PetaFLOPS-class single-card compute power — supporting the construction of high-bandwidth, low-latency, flexibly scalable autonomous intelligent computing clusters, soon to be deployed at Shanghai Yidian Intelligent Computing Center.

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DeepWise Partners with Universities

Launching Scientific Foundation Model Innovator and Research Agent SciMaster

At WAIC's "AI for Development Forum: Superintelligence, Boundless Co-creation," DeepWise jointly launched the scientific foundation model Innovator and research agent SciMaster with the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Algorithm Innovation Research Institute. These tools span the full research chain of reading, computing, and doing, providing efficient infrastructure and intelligent synthesis for multiple domains. Innovator can comprehend complex scientific data with reasoning capabilities. DeepWise also partnered with Unilever China to build an "AI for Science" innovation platform, continuously expanding the AI R&D ecosystem.

DeepWise founder and CEO Weijie Sun stated: "AI for scientific research has gone through multiple development stages. The current core challenge is rapidly applying the latest AI technologies to scenarios like drug discovery and productizing them — a universally accessible AI research product is key to advancing the field."

10

Kunyou Optoelectronics Partners with Multiple Organizations

Establishing Shanghai Smart Glasses Industry Alliance

As a leading AR waveguide manufacturer, Kunyou Optoelectronics joined hands with Shanghai AI Research Institute, Shanghai Yuanqi Metaverse Industry Promotion Center, and eight other organizations at WAIC to establish the Shanghai Smart Glasses Industry Alliance, strongly supporting high-quality development of the AI glasses industry. Kunyou also showcased its six product series — Qiushui, Xiaoyao, Mengdie, Fuyao, Yingning, and Yuzhang — driving rapid AR industry growth and commercialization through continuous technical innovation.

Shanghai Smart Glasses Industry Alliance establishment ceremony

11

Sand.ai Founder and CEO Yue Cao

Appears at WAIC Scientific Frontier Plenary Session

At the WAIC Scientific Frontier Plenary hosted by the conference organizing committee, Sand.ai founder and CEO Yue Cao participated in a roundtable titled "From Digital Intelligence to Physical Intelligence." Moderated by Lin Dahua, lead scientist at Shanghai AI Laboratory and director of the AI Interdisciplinary Research Institute at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cao joined Shanghai AI Laboratory young researcher Ganqu Cui, young scientist Conghui He, Princeton researcher and Peking University PhD Ling Yang, Tsinghua assistant professor and Shanghai Qizhi Institute PI scientist Yi Li, and Carnegie Mellon PhD and Google DeepMind senior research scientist Lijun Yu in deep discussion on breaking through the virtual boundaries of digital bits to achieve AI's real-world physical empowerment.

12

Nutshell Therapeutics Selected for

"AI+" Global Top 50 Most Investment-Worthy Enterprises

At WAIC's "AI Leading Industrial Transformation — Vertical Models and Intelligent Computing Empowering Future Industry Development" session, Nutshell Therapeutics CEO Dr. Shen Qiancheng delivered a keynote on "AI-Driven Allosteric Drug Development Platform and Pipeline," noting that difficult-to-drug targets require novel therapeutic breakthroughs, with allosteric mechanism drugs representing a crucial direction. Nutshell Therapeutics leverages "AI + physics-based computing" to深耕 this domain, making the undruggable druggable.

Additionally, Nutshell Therapeutics was selected for the "AI+" Global Top 50 Most Investment-Worthy Enterprises list, jointly published by Shanghai AI Industry Research Institute and Shanghai Corporate Culture and Brand Research Institute.