A new company is launching today that claims to have developed “the first volume-produced, consumer-ready autonomous vehicle — designed from the ground up for private ownership at scale.” The company is called Tensor, and it describes itself as a “leading AI agentic company” that’s based in San Jose, California — but little information exists online about who or what may be behind this new effort.

But according to a trademark application filed last April, Tensor is affiliated with AutoX, a Chinese autonomous vehicle developer with operations in the US as well as its home country.

In its announcement, Tensor makes no mention of AutoX or China. The company says it’s “dedicated to building agentic products that empower individual consumers” and that the Tensor robocar is its flagship produc

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