{
  "id": 2958,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3359629/china-records-most-new-unicorn-start-ups-5-years-ai-and-robotics-boom",
  "title": "China records most new unicorn start-ups in 5 years as AI and robotics boom",
  "summary": "China’s innovation ecosystem has witnessed a resurgence, minting 67 new unicorn start-ups in the first half of 2026 – the biggest increase in almost five years – as AI and robotics kick off a new investment cycle. The growth translates into an average of one new unicorn – private companies valued at US$1 billion or more – in less than every three days and was the highest since the second half of 2021 when 76 new unicorns were created, according to a Monday report by ITJuzi, a start-up...",
  "authors": "Coco Feng",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-07T02:00:15.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2958",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3359629/china-records-most-new-unicorn-start-ups-5-years-ai-and-robotics-boom",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}