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Xpeng Motors (NYSE: XPEV) robotics subsidiary has signed a share purchase agreement with investors, aiming to raise over $900 million, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion. Xpeng stated that this is the largest single financing completed by a Chinese company in the robotics field to date. The financing round was led by IDG Capital, with strategic follow-on investments from Tencent and Alibaba, and participation from Gao Rong Capital and others.In terms of financing structure, external investors contributed approximately $600 million, Xpeng's subsidiary contributed about $200 million, and CEO He Xiaopeng along with co-president Gu Hongdi's related entities contributed around $100 million. Xpeng will retain about 82% of the controlling stake and consolidate this business. The funds will be used for the research and development of the flagship humanoid robot IRON, the construction of embodied intelligence and data capabilities, as well as mass production and business expansion aimed for the end of 2026. IRON is equipped with Xpeng's self-developed robotics and AI-specific chips.This subsidiary is part of Xpeng's robotics platform Dogotix (Xpeng robotic dog/humanoid robot related entities). Alibaba and Tencent had previously participated as Pre-IPO investors in the financing of the Chinese humanoid robotics company Yushu Technology.

According to market news, New York AI startup General Intuition is in talks to raise funding at a pre-money valuation of $6 billion, with new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, while existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst are also participating in this round of financing.The company is building foundational models to train general AI agents to move through space and time. This financing comes just weeks after General Intuition completed a $320 million funding round at a valuation of $2.3 billion. CEO Pim de Witte spun it out from the video game clip sharing platform Medal last October, leveraging hundreds of millions of hours of gaming data and player operation records as the initial training dataset. The company is becoming one of the hottest startups in the field of physical AI.

According to informed sources, AI cloud service provider Lambda, supported by Nvidia, is negotiating a financing round of up to $3 billion, which could pave the way for its IPO next year.The company's revenue is expected to exceed $1.5 billion this year, with a financing valuation potentially reaching $12 billion.

EntropyIO announced the launch of the first liquidity trading method for Anthropic, aimed at making cutting-edge assets that were previously accessible to only a select few available to a broader audience. The project has completed a $14 million financing round led by Ribbit Capital and received $40 million in HYPE staking support to build improved and new markets.EntropyIO stated that the first related markets have gone live on Hyperliquid. EntropyIO focuses on providing liquidity trading and market infrastructure for cutting-edge assets.

JPMorgan Chase and Santander Bank will lead the financing support of up to $15 billion for the Argentine liquefied natural gas project.

Insiders reveal that smart ring manufacturer Oura plans to raise up to $3 billion through an initial public offering (IPO).

According to Reuters, Xiaopeng Group's humanoid robot business has signed equity financing agreements with multiple investors, raising over $900 million, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion, setting a record for single-round private equity financing in China's embodied intelligence industry.This round of financing was led by IDG Capital, with participation from Gao Rong Capital, and received support from two strategic investors, Tencent and Alibaba. The funds raised in this round will primarily be used for software and hardware research and development of Xiaopeng's robot business, physical AI model training and iteration, high-quality data collection, construction of a full-chain mass production base, and global commercialization expansion.

According to CoinDesk, the new stablecoin bank Fasset has raised $68 million in funding led by the SBI Group, with a valuation of $1 billion. The company's annual trading volume exceeds $40 billion, covering 125 countries, with revenue growing approximately six times year-on-year, and it has been profitable for 12 consecutive months.Fasset has built a proprietary Layer 2 network called OWN based on Arbitrum, providing cross-border payment services for stablecoin settlements to institutions and individuals, and has partnered with SBI Remit to access its remittance network covering 200 countries.

According to Nikkei Asia, Alibaba Group announced that it will raise HKD 80 billion (approximately USD 10.2 billion) through a new share placement to investors outside the United States, with all proceeds being invested in the company's full-stack AI capability development.Alibaba is increasing its investment in the field of artificial intelligence, as the competition between China and the United States in cutting-edge models and the underlying infrastructure continues to heat up. This financing aims to support its comprehensive layout of AI-related technologies and capabilities.

According to TechCrunch, the space computing startup Starcloud announced the completion of a new funding round of $250 million, led by Manhattan West Ventures, with participation from institutions such as Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark, and EQT, among which Nvidia invested approximately $25 million in this round.The new funds will be used to expand satellite manufacturing facilities and advance the research and development of the next-generation orbital data center satellite Starcloud-3. Starcloud revealed that the company has been operating Nvidia H100 data center GPUs in orbit and has completed model training based on this GPU. Currently, most space computing projects use edge computing chips, while Starcloud is collaborating with Nvidia to provide test data for the Vera Rubin Space-1 GPU, which is specifically designed for the space environment. Starcloud's CEO Philip Johnston also previously stated plans to mine Bitcoin in space.

Insiders reveal that the artificial intelligence cloud company Nscale plans to seek up to $3 billion in financing in its IPO in the United States.

On August 21, AI infrastructure investment is becoming a new variable in the U.S. bond market. Tech giants are expanding data centers, chip and computing power construction, and the demand for AI-related financing is rising, starting to compete with the U.S. government for funds from core buyers such as insurance companies, pensions, and long-term asset management institutions. As of August, the issuance scale of U.S. investment-grade corporate bonds has reached approximately $1.7 trillion, setting a historical high for the same period. According to Goldman Sachs, the four major U.S. tech companies have issued more than $170 billion in bonds this year, surpassing the total for the entire year of 2025. Broadcom is seeking to provide chip and infrastructure financing for AI companies like Anthropic, with potential debt size approaching $100 billion.Institutions point out that AI is driving an overall expansion of duration supply in the bond market. With the government and tech companies simultaneously increasing long-term financing demands and a limited long-term funding pool, the market may require higher yields. St. Louis Fed President Bullard stated that a capital competition is forming between the U.S. government's financing needs and AI infrastructure construction. Recently, the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries rose to 5.34%, a new high since 2007, while the 10-year yield rose to 4.7%. High interest rates may raise corporate financing costs and affect AI company valuations through discount rates.At the same time, there are signs of weakness in U.S. consumer data, with Walmart's stock price dropping about 9% in a single day, marking the largest decline since 2022. With economic growth slowing and inflation pressures persisting, the Federal Reserve's policy faces a dilemma. The U.S. Treasury has raised the single repurchase limit for 10-20 year and 20-30 year U.S. Treasuries from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. If long-end yields continue to rise, the market may revisit tools such as yield curve control or quantitative easing.

AI+ Prediction Market Project Fortune Protocol officially discloses the latest financing information. The project has previously completed multiple rounds of financing, including Seed and Pre-A rounds, with a total financing amount exceeding 4 million USD.It is reported that participating institutions include K24 Ventures, CGV FoF, MH Ventures, Mapleblock Capital, and others. Fortune Protocol states that this round of funding will primarily be used to promote the technological upgrades of Fortune AI Agent, the integration and expansion of prediction market liquidity, and ecological construction.With the TGE approaching, Fortune Protocol is committed to building intelligent infrastructure for the next generation of prediction markets, promoting the industry towards a more intelligent, efficient, and open direction.

According to Forbes, Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs have jointly established an AI-native enterprise service company called "Ode," with an investment of $1.5 billion.Ode is positioned as an AI implementation consulting firm, with core services including identifying business processes suitable for AI transformation, deploying AI engineers, developing customized applications and agents, automating task processes, and assisting companies with regulatory compliance issues. The company will focus on helping client enterprises implement the Claude model under Anthropic.

Market news indicates that Broadcom (AVGO.O) is seeking to raise over $60 billion in the latest artificial intelligence debt transaction.

According to Decrypt, the privacy blockchain project Beldex announced the completion of an $8 million financing round, led by Sigma Capital, with participation from institutions such as NTC, Nxgen, Digital Consensus Fund, and EAK Ventures. The new funds will be used for developer tools, privacy applications, protocol security, AI infrastructure development, and ecosystem expansion.Beldex is exploring the use of its privacy technology to protect the identity, payments, communication, and data processing of AI entities, including privacy-preserving AI identities, encrypted AI communication, confidential payments, secure AI execution, as well as research on technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and secure memory.

According to Bloomberg, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) stated that it will consider participating in the new round of financing for the prediction market platform Polymarket. ICE is the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and has previously invested over $1.6 billion in Polymarket.ICE CEO Jeff Sprecher, in an interview with Bloomberg Television, stated that if the company’s participation could help complete Polymarket's current round of financing, it would remain open to that possibility, adding that its investment endorsement could provide support for the financing.Analysts believe that ICE's previous large-scale investment in Polymarket is seen as an important attempt by traditional exchanges to lay out new market infrastructure. If it continues to participate in the financing, it may further strengthen the connection between prediction markets and the mainstream financial system.

The Frontier Data Research Laboratory idler announced the completion of a $9 million seed round financing, led by Alpo and Frankie from Paradigm, with participation from Y Combinator, Long Journey VC, as well as angel investors including marrc, catheryn_li, dcposch, Janine Leger, Lynett Capital, feross, and nur_daulet_.idler is positioned as a frontier data research laboratory, and this round of funding will be used to build evaluation systems, benchmark testing, and reinforcement learning environments for leading frontier laboratories worldwide to train and measure their model performance.