China Telecom

At its 40th anniversary event, Transfar Group announced an AI strategy: it said it would open more than 300 industrial scenarios, form at least 30 co-creation projects, and commit at least $43M (RMB 300M) in first-year AI and digital orders. It also set out a dual-track 'biotech + AI' strategy, with Transfar Sci-Tech City opening scenarios in AI plus pharmaceuticals and medical devices, AI plus biomanufacturing, and AI plus agriculture.

The company signed research cooperation agreements with Zhejiang University, Insigma Group and Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, CAS, and began scenario co-creation with Unitree Robotics, Neolix, SUPCON Technology and China Telecom, among others.

Maniformer, a one-stop physical AI data service platform, has raised hundreds of millions of yuan (tens of millions of dollars) led by China Telecom. Zhangjiang Group joined, and existing investors Sequoia Capital China and Yuanqi Innovation made oversubscribed additions. Funds will scale mass production of MEgo no-body acquisition products, strengthen data-stack capabilities, and accelerate tens of millions of hours of physical interaction data. The company has worked with Ant Lingbo to supply training data for the LingBot-VLA 2.0 model.