Krypton Evening News｜Kimi's valuation rises to 31.5 billion USD with ARR exceeding 300 million USD; Agilebots makes global debut of new embodied intelligence product series, empowering 10,000 industrial scenarios in 3 years; China National Space Administration: China will establish a space-ground coordinated near-Earth asteroid monitoring system
Large Companies:
Porsche China Responds to Cancellation of Sales Authorizations for Multiple Stores
Recently, media reports stated that some Porsche Centers in Wuhu, Anhui; Jining, Shandong; Huai'an, Jiangsu; and Nanning, Guangxi will terminate their distribution business on June 30. This means that the above - mentioned stores will lose their independent sales authorization from Porsche, which has attracted wide attention. On June 30, Porsche China told reporters that the Porsche Centers in Jining, Shandong; Huai'an, Jiangsu; and Xingning, Nanning, Guangxi will terminate their distribution business on June 30, and the Porsche Center in Wuhu, Anhui will terminate its sales business on July 31. However, after - sales services will still operate normally, providing after - sales services that meet Porsche standards for car owners. (China News Service)
Three Squirrels: Receives Government Subsidy of 21.4036 million yuan
36Kr learned that Three Squirrels announced that its wholly - owned subsidiary, Three Squirrels (Wuhu) Nut Manufacturing Co., Ltd., received a government subsidy of 21.4036 million yuan related to income on June 30, 2026, accounting for 13.78% of the absolute value of the audited net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company in the most recent fiscal year.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on June 30 that it will conduct a public consultation on a new round of regulatory measures targeting Apple and Google's mobile platforms. According to the proposed requirements, the two companies will not be allowed to restrict UK app developers from guiding users to websites or other platforms outside the app store to complete payments, subscriptions, or transactions, in order to enhance market competition and reduce developers' dependence on official app stores. The CMA also proposed that the fees related to traffic diversion should follow the "fair and reasonable" principle, and it is expected that the relevant fees will be lower than the current app store commission level. At the same time, the CMA is seeking opinions on the technical implementation method and charging mechanism for the opening of Apple's iOS Near Field Communication (NFC) function to promote competition and innovation in services such as mobile payment. (Jiemian)
Samsung Electro - Mechanics Wins a 454 billion won AI Server Capacitor Contract from a US Customer
Samsung Electro - Mechanics announced on Tuesday that it has signed a contract worth 454 billion won (approximately $293 million) with a US customer to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) for its artificial intelligence (AI) servers. Samsung Electro - Mechanics said that the contract is valid from January 2027 to December 2027. The company did not disclose the identity of the customer due to a confidentiality agreement. However, industry insiders believe that the customer is a large US cloud service provider (CSP). (Sina Finance)
BROMPTON Announces Strategic Partnership with Decathlon PULSE and Black Ant Capital
36Kr learned that BROMPTON, a UK folding bicycle brand, announced today that it has reached a strategic partnership with Decathlon PULSE, the investment and innovation department of Decathlon, and Black Ant Capital, a venture capital institution. In a recent share transfer, Decathlon PULSE and Black Ant Capital respectively invested in BROMPTON and obtained a small number of shares.
AXERA Developer Ecosystem Salon Held
On June 28, the AXERA Developer Ecosystem Salon was held in Shenzhen. Tang Qi, the person in charge of the open - source community solution of AXERA, said that as of June 2026, the model library of the AXERA platform has exceeded 200+, covering LLM, VLM, multimodal, and vertical detection. It has also simultaneously joined the two major model communities, Hugging Face and ModelScope. The new Pulsar2 6.0 toolchain has completed its iteration, adapting to the full - series chips and optimizing the inference of mainstream edge - side large models such as Qwen and MiniCPM. The performance of the company's next - generation large - model - specific NPU architecture has significantly improved, and it is natively compatible with mainstream frameworks such as PyTorch, Sglang, and vLLM.
Investment and Financing:
"Yaosu Technology" Completes Nearly 200 million yuan Series A+ Financing
36Kr learned that recently, "Yaosu Technology" announced the completion of nearly 200 million yuan in Series A+ financing. This round of financing was jointly participated in by Guofang Venture Capital, Qingsong Capital, GF Xinde, Orient Fortune Capital, and Yunbai Capital. The old shareholder, Yayi Capital, continued to increase its investment. This round of financing will be mainly used to continuously promote the construction of the company's "3D Bio Intelligence" platform, including further improving the vertical AI model and biological mechanism analysis capabilities, implementing the high - throughput automated experiment system, continuously accumulating multimodal biological data, and accelerating the construction of the Virtual Cell and Biological World Model, comprehensively promoting the formation of the next - generation drug R & D human - sourced data infrastructure.
Kimi's Valuation Rises to $31.5 billion, ARR Exceeds $300 million
The financing of Kimi at a valuation of $20 billion in the previous round was recently completed. A new round of financing has been launched, and the pre - investment valuation has risen to $31.5 billion. According to an institutional insider close to Kimi, Kimi disclosed its latest revenue data during the communication of this round of financing: in mid - June, the ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) exceeded $300 million. Kimi's revenue growth in this round mainly comes from the increase in developer usage and API revenue driven by model iteration. Currently, API revenue accounts for more than 70% of Kimi's total revenue and continues to rise. Kimi's revenue curve initially shows the characteristics of Anthropic's early commercialization stage: a large - scale increase in developer calls, an increase in the proportion of API, growth in overseas paying users, and an upward shift in the price system driven by model capability iteration. (Caixin)
New Products:
On June 29, Youi Robotics released a series of new products in the field of embodied intelligence, including the globally launched large - scale applicable industrial embodied intelligence large model "FabriX" and the industrial - native humanoid robot "Xifeng". At the same time, Youi Robotics announced the launch of the FabriX ecological partner plan and put forward the goal of "empowering 10,000 industrial sites in 3 years". Based on the "one - brain, multi - form" architecture, Youi Robotics has widely applied its robots in industrial fields such as semiconductors, lithium batteries, 3C, and energy, with more than 800 projects implemented in total. According to the Frost & Sullivan report, in terms of revenue in 2024, Youi Robotics ranks first in the global market share of industrial mobile operation robots.
HORWIN announced that the world's first 400V high - voltage super electric motorcycle SENMENTI ONE is officially delivered, with a starting price of 99,800 yuan. It is understood that the whole vehicle has more than 200 core patents, is equipped with the brand's self - developed vehicle - grade 400V high - voltage platform, and has a high - level integration of the three - electric system and the chassis; it is equipped with a 16.9kWh ternary lithium battery, with a comprehensive urban range of 300km, supports DC fast charging for cars, can travel 100km after charging for 10 minutes, and also supports 3kW external discharge; it is equipped with Bosch ABS and a robotic architecture domain controller; it can accelerate from 0 to 100km/h in 3.3 seconds, with a maximum speed of 200km/h.
Other Noteworthy News:
Today is International Asteroid Day. The risk of near - earth asteroid impacts is a potential threat faced by all of humanity. The China National Space Administration announced today that China will establish a space - ground collaborative monitoring system for near - earth asteroids to provide early - warning monitoring support for asteroid impact defense. Experts said that near - earth asteroid impacts are a challenge faced by all of humanity. As a responsible space - faring nation, China is currently conducting research on a Chinese asteroid defense system. To defend, early warning is essential, and the space - ground integrated monitoring network is the core of early warning. China will form a monitoring system with no blind spots day and night by deploying multiple telescopes on the ground and building constellations in space. (CCTV News)
The US Department of Education said on Monday that it is finalizing new federal student loan regulations that will link the eligibility of universities to participate in the federal loan program to the income levels of their graduates. This is the latest move by the Trump administration to pressure universities. "According to the new Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and income accountability rules, undergraduate programs must prove that their graduates' income is higher than that of ordinary high - school graduates; graduate programs must prove that their graduates' income is higher than that of ordinary bachelor's degree holders," the US Department of Education said in a statement. (Sina Finance)