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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (QbitAI · Sep 7, 2026)

Zhongke Brain Secures Hundreds of Millions in B+ Round

KEY FACTS

  • Zhongke Brain has completed a strategic B+ funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, led by CRRC Capital.
  • Investors including Yinxing Valley and Shuimu Fund participated in the round; the company previously received investment from China Mobile.
  • The funds will be allocated to Token factory inference optimization and computing-power coordination scheduling technologies.
  • The firm focuses on unified management of heterogeneous computing power, aiming to reduce the cost per token.

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

The continued entry of central state-owned enterprise industrial capital into AI infrastructure startups sends a clear signal: the computing race has shifted from simply stacking GPUs to an efficiency war centered on 'computing-power coordination.' Zhongke Brain is attempting to reconstruct the token production cost model using energy advantages. This is not just an attempt at a commercial closed loop, but a critical path for domestic computing power to seek differentiated breakthroughs under energy consumption bottlenecks. If it can validate the economics of 'per-kWh intelligence,' it may rewrite the cost logic of AI infrastructure.

Source: QbitAI report