{"title":"Spirit AI vs Tesla: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/spirit-ai-vs-tesla","comparison":"Tesla ranks 1 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 92; Spirit AI ranks 41 with 66. Tesla is ahead on deployment, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production. Spirit AI is based in China, Tesla in Austin, United States. Tesla: Public. Spirit AI is named in 26 signals and Tesla in 750.","companies":[{"name":"Spirit AI","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/spirit-ai","city":null,"country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Spirit AI (Hangzhou, also known as Qianxun) makes the Xiaomo (Moz) humanoid, which is in regular production operation at CATL's Luoyang plant doing high-precision battery-connector insertion and end-of-line testing at skilled-worker pace, a task-focused design that deliberately avoids complex five-finger hands. It is CATL-affiliated (Borui Capital, a CATL co-founder, backs it), raised ~RMB 1.3B/$185M across three rounds since 2024, and represents the deepest verified single-customer humanoid deployment in China outside auto plants. That single-customer concentration is the whole story so far.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":41,"score":66,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Spirit AI develops Moz humanoid robots and has deployed a fleet at CATL’s battery facility, where the robots perform industrial connector-insertion and testing work.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":26,"facts_total":16},{"name":"Tesla","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/tesla","city":"Austin","country":"United States","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Tesla makes the Optimus humanoid, a household-to-factory ambition backed by massive capital. It is an essential name in the category (detailed research pending).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":1,"score":92,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":5,"deployment":10,"production":6,"technology":10},"why":"Tesla is developing Optimus as a general-purpose humanoid robot, with factory assembly capabilities and planned large-scale deployment.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":750,"facts_total":195}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}