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IDC released a global commercial service robot report, showing that Chinese manufacturers accounted for over 90% of shipments.
According to a report by China News Service, citing a data release from International Data Corporation (IDC) on July 7th, the global commercial service robot market reached $1.37 billion in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 35.7%, with approximately 155,000 units shipped, representing a year-on-year increase of 44.1%. Chinese manufacturers, leveraging their supply chain and AI technology innovation advantages, continued to lead the global market, accounting for over 90% of the market share among the top ten global manufacturers. In terms of sub-categories, commercial cleaning robots saw the fastest growth, with approximately 58,000 units shipped in 2025 (+83.8%), reaching a market size of over $760 million. Delivery robots remained the largest segment in terms of shipment volume, with approximately 84,000 units shipped (+30.2%). Regarding regional distribution, China maintained its position as the world's largest market with a share of approximately 38%, while Latin America saw the fastest growth with a year-on-year shipment growth rate of 84.4%. IDC predicts that global shipments of commercial service robots will reach 454,000 units by 2030, with the market size expected to grow to $3.17 billion.
The South Korean government is considering extending the sovereign AI core GPU guarantee project, with a budget of up to 4 trillion won next year.
According to Odaily Odaily, the South Korean government is considering extending its support project for GPUs, a core resource for AI. On July 7th, industry sources indicated that the Ministry of Science and ICT is investigating the capacity of major South Korean cloud service providers to build additional GPUs, aiming to extend the "AI Computing Resource Utilization Infrastructure Enhancement Project." The core of this project involves government-funded purchases of GPUs, deployment in cloud service provider data centers, and support for industry-academia-research collaboration. Last year, the South Korean government allocated a budget of 1 trillion won, and this year it allocated 2 trillion won, securing over 20,000 GPUs. The project was originally scheduled to end this year, but with the surge in demand for advanced resources such as NVIDIA's next-generation GPU Vera Rubin, the South Korean government is developing comprehensive countermeasures, including data center efficiency optimization and new space security plans. It is reportedly already applying to the Planning and Budget Office for a "limited additional budget" for GPU security. Industry estimates suggest that, considering this year's GPU security budget and the government's intentions, next year's budget could reach a maximum of approximately 4 trillion won. Industry experts say that compared to the GPU supply itself, "equipment installation space" will be the key to the success or failure of the project, because running thousands of high-performance GPUs simultaneously requires a large power supply and advanced cooling systems, and the equipment installation space held by South Korean companies is nearing saturation. (ETNews Electronics)
JPMorgan Chase: Large-scale model usage and GPU leasing prices rise simultaneously, continuing to support AI infrastructure demand.
According to Mars Finance, JPMorgan Chase's latest "Data Center Watch" report shows that in June, large model usage, API spending, and non-cloud vendor GPU leasing prices all strengthened, indicating that demand for AI infrastructure is still expanding. Although model token prices continued to decline year-on-year, the increase in usage has significantly offset the impact of price reductions, and the overall unit economics of model providers are showing an improving trend. (Cailian Press)
Kingsoft Cloud accelerates GPU computing power construction, securing a 10 billion yuan budget from Xiaomi and a multi-billion yuan long-term contract from Alibaba.
According to a report by Jiemian News, as reported by Mars Finance, Kingsoft Cloud will accelerate the construction of its GPU computing power clusters in the second half of the year to meet the explosive growth in computing power demand from leading clients. Xiaomi's GPU computing power requirement for Kingsoft Cloud has been upgraded from a 10,000-GPU cluster, with the related budget increasing significantly from the initial nearly 4 billion yuan to over 10 billion yuan. In addition, Alibaba's big data model team has signed a 5-year computing power leasing contract with Kingsoft Cloud, involving more than 3,000 eight-GPU servers. Based on the contract price, the annualized revenue after full delivery will exceed 4 billion yuan. To meet the surging customer demand, Kingsoft Cloud has increased its 2026 capital expenditure plan to 15 billion yuan, with a full-year revenue target of 12.5 billion to 13.5 billion yuan. It is understood that due to tight upstream supply, Kingsoft Cloud is currently only accepting long-term contract customers for 3 to 5 years for its GPU computing power, and some orders are facing delivery delays. Due to concerns about the risk of asset impairment from stockpiling high-priced computing cards, Kingsoft Cloud is currently suspending its aggressive expansion of hardware, anticipating that computing hardware prices may reach a turning point in the third quarter of this year.
Samsung SDI wins 2 trillion won order for AIDC battery cells
According to Mars Finance, Samsung SDI has confirmed a supply contract worth approximately 2 trillion won with battery module company Simplo Technology to provide battery cells for artificial intelligence data centers (AIDCs). Samsung SDI stated that due to increased investment in data centers, battery unit (BBU) sales have grown, leading to increased production and utilization of cylindrical batteries. (TheElec)
South Korea plans to invest 5 trillion won in excess tax revenue from semiconductors to develop "sovereign AI" and purchase 10,000 GPUs to support a single team.
According to Beating's monitoring, the Korea Economic Daily revealed that South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT is in discussions with the Presidential Office and the Ministry of Finance, planning to utilize approximately 5 trillion won in excess tax revenue from the semiconductor industry to purchase about 10,000 of NVIDIA's most advanced Vera Rubin superchip GPU modules this year. This investment will be used to support elite teams developing world-class "sovereign AI" models. This decision stems directly from the sense of crisis caused by US export controls on cutting-edge AI models—Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 have been restricted from external access, forcing South Korean companies to urgently modify systems built on these models. The concept of "national strategic assetization" of AI models has thus become a reality. Currently, although four teams in South Korea—LG AI Research Institute, SK Telecom, Upstage, and Motif Technologies—are advancing independent basic model projects, each team only receives support from 700 to 800 GPUs. This dispersed investment makes it difficult to compete with globally leading models that utilize tens of thousands of GPUs. The government has therefore decided to shift to a "selection and concentration" strategy, allocating 10,000 GPUs to the best teams at once, and plans to include special funds in the supplementary budget for attracting top overseas AI talent. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung publicly stated last month that the GPU procurement pace was too slow and demanded that related funds be ensured when compiling the supplementary budget. The current global competitive window is extremely short, with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI iterating new models weekly. France, with its single-focus strategy, has surpassed Meta to become the seventh largest AI provider globally, thanks to Mistral AI. If South Korea cannot catch up in the short term, it risks becoming an "AI vassal state." The South Korean semiconductor academic community has given this positive feedback, believing that investing the funds gained from hardware prosperity into building software competitiveness is essentially an investment in the country's future. --------------------------------- Click the original link below to join the Beating · Lark AI news channel for 24/7 monitoring of global AI hotspots and news.