TuSimple

Autonomous truckingUSA

New to Unitard

📉 Public < $1B

Peak $8 BillionToday

−99%

from peak

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Became a unicorn
2021
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Peak valuation
$8 Billion ’21
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Became a Unitard
Feb 2024
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Last valuation
~$44.3M

Current status

Delisted from Nasdaq (2024); rebranded CreateAI

Live · TSPH· OTC Markets OTCPK

as of 2026-10-30

$0.18▲ 5.82% today

≈ $44.3 Million market cap · −99.4% from peak

The rise & fall

8 moments · 2015–2024

The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.

2015

Founded in San Diego

A self-driving truck startup with roots — and research teams — in both the US and China.

Wikipedia

Apr 2021

First self-driving truck company to IPO

Lists on Nasdaq in April 2021, a landmark for autonomous freight.

CNBC

2021

The peak: $8B market cap$8B

Shares climb past $60, valuing the driverless-trucking pioneer above $8B.

CNBC

Oct 2022

Board ousts the CEO amid FBI and SEC probes

National-security scrutiny over China ties and boardroom turmoil erupt into the open; the stock craters.

WSJ

2022–23

From the inside · Glassdoor reviews, 2022–23

Glassdoor reviews from the decline described strategy that seemed to change monthly amid a steady stream of executive resignations and firings, and employees counted repeated layoff rounds as the US business shrank — reviewers said visa-holding staff were hit especially hard, with little severance.

Feb 2024

Slips out of the club

Voluntarily delists from Nasdaq and exits the US market.

Reuters

Dec 2024

Rebrands as CreateAI

The autonomous-trucking company reinvents itself around AI animation and gaming.

TechCrunch

Today

Still in the club — and still trading

Live · TSPH · OTC Markets OTCPKas of 2026-10-30

$0.18▲ 5.82% today≈ $44.3M cap · −99.4% from peak

💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.

How it happened

TuSimple went public in April 2021 to commercialize self-driving trucks, its market cap topping $8B as shares peaked above $60. An autonomous-vehicle funding drought, national-security scrutiny over its China ties and boardroom turmoil gutted the stock; TuSimple was delisted from Nasdaq in 2024, exited the US and rebranded as CreateAI.

Source: IPO Apr 2021; FBI/SEC probes

Founders & leadership

Cheng Lu
President & CEO
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Xiaodi Hou
co-founder & CTO, later CEO (Caltech; the AI half of the pair)
Now Chief Executive Officer at Bot AutoLinkedIn ↗
Mo Chen
co-founder & chairman (came from gaming)
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