Tencent Open Sources Agent Assistant Octop, SK Hynix $26.5B IPO Sets Record, Unitree Rockets to STAR Market in 104 Days
Tencent Open Sources Octop
On July 13, 2026, Tencent open-sourced its cloud self-developed Agent assistant Octop, providing developers with a powerful intelligent agent development tool. This move further enriches the AI development ecosystem and lowers the barrier to Agent development. Octop's release marks a new stage in domestic tech giants' open-source布局 in AI Agent infrastructure.
On the same day, news that a free AI Coding tool reached the global top tier also attracted attention, signaling a shift in the competitive landscape of AI programming assistants — free tools can now rival paid products in performance.
SK Hynix Record IPO
SK Hynix rose 12.76% on its first day of trading on NASDAQ, closing at $168.01. The company issued 177.9 million ADRs at $149 each, raising $26.5 billion with 7x oversubscription, setting the record for the largest fundraising by a foreign company in the US market.
CEO Kwak Noh-jung stated at the listing ceremony that 2027 will be the most supply-constrained year in memory industry history, with the tight cycle continuing through 2030. All raised funds will go toward HBM4 and 375-layer NAND capacity expansion. Total investment in South Korea's semiconductor industry is approximately 4.97 trillion RMB.
However, Samsung's stock fell 7.7% the same day, with capacity oversupply anxiety fermenting simultaneously. This divergence reflects market disagreement about the memory chip cycle judgment.
Unitree's 104-Day STAR Market Record
In China, the embodied intelligence sector has set off an IPO boom. Unitree Robotics set the record for fastest STAR Market review in 104 days, planning to raise 4.2 billion RMB at a 42 billion RMB valuation. Cloud Deep's IPO has been questioned, with Zhiyuan, Galaxy General, and Star Sea queuing for review.
In the first half of 2026, embodied intelligence financing exceeded 90 billion RMB, with estimated annual shipments of 50,000-100,000 units. Step Star released the Step Edge on-device model family on the same day, targeting phones and automotive scenarios, with 29 core benchmark first places.
Meanwhile, Step Star and Nubia are competing for the "world's first AI agent phone" title at WAIC. However, major manufacturers Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo have not yet followed suit, and AI phones remain in the "edge players leading the charge" stage. Against the backdrop of rising memory prices and losses on budget phones, whether AI phones can truly break through remains questionable.
Capital Surge
In the first half of 2026, US venture capital financing reached $412.7 billion, 30% higher than the full year prior, with AI companies accounting for 86% of funding. AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing a new funding round at a $20 billion valuation, doubling in less than a year. The entire industry shows accelerating technology iteration, faster commercialization, and continued capital inflows.
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