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The registry records it at commercial maturity to reflect that historical peak, with a discontinued lifecycle state: AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely, with China operations divested, offices closed, and the brand discontinued, while the founder pivoted the company into a Silicon Valley personal-robocar startup called Tensor with no active China presence, so it is not a currently-operating robotaxi service. This follows the active-retired split, with maturity reflecting the historical commercial peak and lifecycle reflecting the wind-down. The frequently cited 2021 claim of a fleet of more than a thousand vehicles, the largest in China, is stale and self-reported and does not reflect 2026 reality, the roughly $267 million total-funding figure is an aggregator number rather than primary-sourced, the exact wind-down date is unconfirmed with the company having gone quiet around 2022 to 2023 and completing the wind-down around 2024 to 2025, and Tensor's planned second-half-2026 consumer-robocar launch is a forward-looking claim rather than a shipped product.","formFactor":"av","industryVertical":"passenger_transport","environment":"road","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"discontinued","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified (historical peak)","value":"AutoX (founded 2016; founder Jianxiong Xiao; Alibaba + Dongfeng-backed) was the 2nd company worldwide to run a public fully-driverless robotaxi service (Shenzhen, 2021), with driverless permits across 6 cities and an SF operations center (2022). maturityStage=commercial (historical peak)."},{"label":"CURRENT STATUS: discontinued (wound down -> Tensor)","value":"AutoX has WOUND DOWN its China robotaxi operations entirely: China ops divested, offices closed, the AutoX brand discontinued. 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