Chinese AI and robotics firms are making notable advances despite U.S. trade restrictions. Unitree Robotics, founded by Wang Xingxing in 2016, has grown from a single employee to a team of around 1,000 and reported annual revenue exceeding 1 billion yuan (approximately $140 million). Wang emphasized that humanoid robots are still not ready for mass deployment and that AI robotic products require gradual development and precise market alignment. Meanwhile, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has developed a model rivaling OpenAI's performance at a fraction of the cost. Another startup, Zhipu AI, has also drawn positive attention from OpenAI analysts. Additionally, a Chinese AI firm created the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model, MiniMax M1, which features a 1 million token context window and outperforms Claude 4 Opus in the LiveCode Bench, all achieved with less than $535,000 in training costs. These developments indicate China is laying a strong foundation for the next wave of AI and robotics innovation.