Chengdu APLUX Intelligence Technology Ltd.

• Ultra Magnus

• Customer site

  2025-06-16 - APLUX field-tested Ultra Magnus at one Chengdu street intersection as a traffic-guidance assistant. - Ultra Magnus - 88 Dongyu Street intersection, Jinjiang District, Chengdu

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Supply chain relationships

• Qualcomm

  Inbound - Compute & Control - APLUX's Ultra Magnus prototype incorporated Qualcomm QCS8550 compute at CES 2025

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• Ti5 Robot

  Inbound - actuation and motion control - APLUX's Ultra Magnus prototype incorporated Ti5 Robot joint modules and motion control at CES 2025

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• 2026-01-20 - Series A - APLUX completes nearly CNY100M Series A

  APLUX completed a Series A described as nearly CNY100 million in January 2026, with Luxin Wannan Fund and Chengdu Science and Technology Venture Capital Group among the investors. - source: scfzfund.sdholding.com

• 2023-11-08 - Pre-A+ - APLUX completes nearly CNY100M Pre-A+ financing

  APLUX completed a Pre-A+ financing described as nearly CNY100 million, led by Shenneng Chengyi. - source: shangdaovc.cn

• 2022-12-20 - Pre-A - $7.2M - APLUX completes CNY50 million Pre-A financing

  APLUX completed a CNY50 million Pre-A round led by Qualcomm Ventures. - source: web.csp.chinamcloud.com

• Chengdu Science and Technology Venture Capital Group - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-20
• Famous Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-20
• Luxin Wannan Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-20
• Qualcomm Ventures - Lead - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2022-12-20
• Shenneng Chengyi - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-11-08
• Shenzhen High-Tech Investment - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-20
• Sichuan Academician Science and Technology Innovation Equity Investment Guidance Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-11-08

• Sun Xiaogang - Founder and CEO - Sun leads APLUX/AidLux's AI and robotics operating-system business.

Events

• 2026-01-20 - Funding - APLUX completes nearly CNY100M Series A

  The investor announcement names Luxin Wannan Fund and Chengdu Science and Technology Venture Capital Group among the participants. The qualified amount remains non-numeric because the disclosure says nearly CNY100 million. APLUX said the financing would accelerate technology research and market expansion across its edge-AI infrastructure business.

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• 2025-06-16 - Deployment - APLUX tests Ultra Magnus as a Chengdu traffic assistant

  At 88 Dongyu Street in Jinjiang District, the robot walked to its assigned point and responded to changes in traffic-light signals. Gestures and spoken reminders helped police guide pedestrians; the trial also included traffic-safety explanations and answers to public questions.

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• 2025-04-10 - Award - APLUX wins OFweek’s emerging embodied-intelligence brand award

  The award programme drew nearly 300 entries; APLUX highlighted on-device multimodal interaction in its humanoid submission. The robot integrated interaction, motion control and AI decision-making on one board and used local models for operation without a network connection.

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• 2025-04-01 - Partnership - Chengdu APLUX Intelligence Technology Ltd. launches Qualcomm IoT edge AI ecosystem portal with Qualcomm

  APLUX and Qualcomm launched an edge-AI ecosystem portal aimed at Qualcomm IoT platforms, described by APLUX as a first-of-its-kind hub. The portal bundles a solutions center spanning robotics, industrial inspection, transport, security, and retail, plus a model hub listing nearly 300 models. APLUX said the goal is to compress the distance from model tuning and deployment to scenario-ready implementations on Qualcomm-based edge hardware.

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• 2025-02-10 - Capability - Chengdu APLUX Intelligence Technology Ltd. achieves on-device deployment of DeepSeek-R1 on Qualcomm platforms

  APLUX announced on-device DeepSeek-R1 execution on Qualcomm platforms with inference it described as strong on performance and cost. On QCS8550-class hardware, APLUX cited throughput near 40–45 tokens per second for the 1.5B model and about 10–13 tokens per second for the 7B model. APLUX positioned on-device inference as reducing reliance on flaky cloud connectivity for robotics, inspection, and edge deployments.

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• 2025-01-06 - Product Launch - APLUX introduces Ultra Magnus with Ti5 and Qualcomm

  APLUX supplied its fusion-architecture operating system and edge AI, while Qualcomm QCS8550 supported onboard compute, perception and planning. Ti5 provided joint modules and motion-control algorithms; local language-model and vision processing supported voice interaction and robot action planning.

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• 2024-12-23 - Market Signal - Chengdu APLUX Intelligence Technology Ltd. is named to the 2024 Cyzone 100 Future Unicorns list

  APLUX said it was named to the 2024 Cyzone 100 Future Unicorns list at the Future Unicorn Conference in Chengdu. APLUX tied the listing to investor interest, growth trajectory, and forward outlook, noting CEO Sun Xiaogang joined conference programming. The listing adds external validation for APLUX's positioning around edge AI and embodied-intelligence infrastructure.

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• 2023-11-08 - Funding - APLUX completes nearly CNY100M Pre-A+ financing

  Shenneng Chengyi led the financing and Sichuan Academician Science and Technology Innovation Equity Investment Guidance Fund participated. The qualified amount remains non-numeric because the disclosure says nearly CNY100 million. APLUX said the capital would deepen work in AIoT sectors and improve tools connecting chip platforms with applied AI products.

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• 2022-12-20 - Funding - APLUX completes CNY50 million Pre-A financing

  Shenzhen High-Tech Investment and existing angel investor Famous Investment participated alongside Qualcomm Ventures. The financing followed APLUX receiving an investment letter at the 2022 Qualcomm Ventures-Sequoia China Intelligent Connectivity Startup Competition. APLUX said the capital would accelerate its AIoT developer platform and deployment across intelligent-device applications.

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