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Daniel Zhang

Former CEO Alibaba. Alibaba invests in Unitree, RobotEra.


Physical AI footprint (8)

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  • Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    Unitree Robotics is a Chinese robotics company producing quadruped and [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai) robots at affordable prices.

    IPO (priced) · $900M29 verified deployments · Unitree H2 Plus at Seattle16 incidents10 models
  • AutoXverified
    Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    Early Chinese robotaxi company (Shenzhen + CA; founded 2016; founder Jianxiong Xiao; [Alibaba](/companies/alibaba-group)/Dongfeng-backed); 2nd globally to run p

  • Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    Shanghai-listed AI chip designer (SSE: 688256) spun out of the [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences) in 2016.

    IPO · $369M2 models
  • Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    X-[Square robot](/companies/square-robot), company developing robotic solutions.

    $590M raised2 models
  • XAGverified
    Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    XAG (formerly XAircraft) is a major Chinese agricultural-drone maker based in Guangzhou (founded 2007), producing autonomous RTK-precision crop-spraying and map

  • Dogotixverified
    Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    Dogotix is the standalone robotics subsidiary of [XPeng](/companies/xpeng) (NYSE: XPEV), carved out in August 2026 to develop general-purpose humanoid, bipedal,

    Series A · $900M1 model
  • Megviiverified
    Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    Beijing-based AI and computer-vision company best known for its Face++ facial-recognition platform — the world's largest third-party face-authentication service

    Series D · $750M1 model
  • RobotEraverified
    Portfolio company · via Alibaba

    RobotEra is a Chinese [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai) robotics company based in Beijing, developing full-size bipedal humanoids (L7) with an emphasis on gene

    Strategic · $200M

and 1 more physical AI company Daniel is connected to.

Investor roles (1)

  • Alibaba general partner(strategic corporate)

Sources (1)

  1. https://www.crunchbase.com/

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