2025-05-26 18:01:00
On May 22, 2025, BEYOND Expo 2025, with the theme of "Empowering Asia, Connecting the World", was grandly opened at the Cotai Strip Macao Convention and Exhibition Center. Shenzhen Guanxu Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guanxu Electronics") participated in the exhibition and won the BEYOND Innovation AWARDS 2025 Innovation Award and BEYOND IMPACT AWARDS 2025 Influence Award. Its brand Cleer's new generation open AI earphone Cleer ARC 5 sound arc won the highest honor of the exhibition, the BEYOND BEST CHOICE Awards.
BEYOND EXPO 2025: The 'Window of the Future' for the Asian tech industry
As the largest technology innovation and ecological expo in Asia, BEYOND Expo has attracted leading figures from global technology companies, investment institutions, politics, and academia. Over 800 global pioneers and 25000+global attendees gathered together, focusing on innovative achievements in multiple core technology fields such as artificial intelligence, big models, robots, and intelligent transportation.
As a core component of the Expo, the BEYOND Awards have long been regarded by the industry as an important indicator of honor in the field of technology. This award has two categories: the BEYOND Innovation Awards and the BEYOND Impact Awards, aimed at recognizing breakthrough innovation achievements in the field of technology. According to statistics, over the past five years, the BEYOND Awards have selected more than 200 industry-leading companies from over 1500 nominations.
In 2025, BEYOND Expo will uphold even stricter standards and select 25 outstanding companies from over 300 nominations for innovation and impact awards to be awarded the BEYOND BEST CHOICE Awards, including 20 innovation award winners and 5 impact award winners. On such a stage where technology giants gather and are highly regarded globally, Guanxu Electronics and its acoustic brand Cleer can stand out, winning three heavyweight honors in a row, demonstrating Cleer's industry leadership in "green beauty and intelligent manufacturing".
Cleer: 28 years of deep cultivation in acoustics, with innovation as the core explosive brand power
Behind Cleer's continued impressive performance at global technology events is its unwavering innovation and technological accumulation. Cleer's parent company, Guanxu Electronics, has been deeply involved in the field of intelligent acoustics for 28 years. With continuous investment in core technologies, it has gradually built a solid technological barrier. As of now, its cumulative number of intellectual property rights has exceeded 3200, covering multiple technological dimensions from acoustic structure design, AI algorithms to wireless communication, intelligent interaction, etc. Its number of patent applications for smart earphones ranks seventh in the world, closely following Apple (fifth) and Qualcomm (sixth). Therefore, on the international stage, Cleer has won over 100 international innovation and creativity awards, including the 2025 Geneva Invention Award Gold Award, China Excellent Industrial Design Award Gold Nomination Award, and US CE Week Gold Award, thanks to its cutting-edge technology and industrial design capabilities. It has become one of the important drivers for China's intelligent acoustics industry to go global.
As a high-end brand under Guanxu Electronics, Cleer is not only one of the few domestic brands with independent acoustic laboratories, but also has written "innovation" into its brand DNA. Driven by the dual engines of technology and design, Cleer continuously implements cutting-edge concepts into concrete products, reshaping people's cognitive boundaries of headphones with disruptive innovations.
The world's first open AI earphone that integrates three major audio technologies: Cleer ARC 5 sound arc leads the era of acoustic AI
At the exhibition, the Cleer ARC 5 Sound Arc Open AI Earphones, as a representative achievement of Cleer's technological integration in the field of AI acoustics in recent years, became one of the focus of attention at the exhibition with multiple breakthroughs in audio experience and intelligent functions. In terms of sound quality, it is the first to integrate three of the world's top audio technologies - THX spatial audio, DTS spatial audio, and Dolby sound effects with head tracking - into an open earphone, creating an immersive listening experience that feels like being on site. In terms of AI performance, ARC 5 has also taken a leap forward, equipped with a 6-nanometer 6-core neural network processor with an AI engine, integrating a powerful AI engine, and achieving a hundredfold increase in AI computing power compared to the previous generation product. This hardware foundation has laid a solid foundation for the comprehensive development of its AI functions.
It is worth noting that Cleer has also developed an AI agent "Heartball", which is compatible with Baidu ERNIE Bot deepseek、 Mainstream language models such as Doubao can efficiently execute AI voice assistants, real-time transcription of AI voice notes, AI simultaneous interpretation, and AI functions based on local systems such as noise reduction, AI sound environment constant listening, AI somatosensory control, and AI two-way high-definition calling, transforming headphones from simple entertainment tools into a "productivity tool on the ear". With multidimensional breakthroughs, ARC 5 has won the Bronze Award at the 2025 Geneva Invention Award, the 2025 German Red Dot Design Award, and the highest honor of the entire event, the "BEYOND BEST CHOICE Awards," at BEYOND EXPO 2025.
Breaking the boundaries of headphones, Cleer Clip redefines headphones and fashion expression
If the Cleer ARC 5 sound arc is a challenge and reshaping of the boundaries of open headphone technology, then the Cleer Clip star arc is a disruptive redesign of the form of head mounted headphones. This earphone adopts a brand new open top structure, which reduces the weight of traditional headphones from up to 240 grams to 40 grams, greatly improving the comfort and portability of wearing. It is worth mentioning that Cleer Clip not only performs subtraction in structure, but also adds in aesthetics. Clip boldly introduces the concept of replaceable DIY headphone accessories and collaborates with top international jewelry design teams to create a series of high-end jewelry grade headphone accessories. Users can freely change accessories according to their daily dressing style and personal preferences, transforming headphones from single function products to fashionable and trendy items that can be worn on the go. This design concept that perfectly integrates technology and art, sound and aesthetics has also won wide recognition both inside and outside the industry - Cleer Clip won the gold medal at the 2025 Geneva Invention Exhibition and the German IF Design Award before its release, as well as Sullivan's certification as the "global pioneer of open top AI headphones".
In the current era of constantly changing technology and the comprehensive penetration of AI into daily life, Cleer is using products that break the boundaries of imagination, interpreting a new future where "headphones are more than just headphones". The coronation of the three awards at BEYOND EXPO 2025 is not only a recognition of Cleer's innovation by the industry, but also a powerful testimony to Cleer's continuous breakthroughs.
Interpreting the Sustainable Path of Future Earphones with 'Green Beauty Intelligent Manufacturing'
As emphasized by the BEYOND Awards Impact Award, Cleer has won the BEYOND Awards Impact Award not only for its continuous innovation in products and technology, but also for actively expanding the green boundary and enhancing the industry's "green content" by addressing global issues such as carbon emissions, public health, and ecological protection through technological innovation. Cleer's parent company, Guanxu Electronics, as a national level green factory, was approved as one of the first batch of carbon peak and carbon neutrality pilot enterprises in Guangdong Province as early as 2023, and officially passed the "zero carbon factory" certification in February 2024. Its green and low-carbon park has also been listed as one of the "Top 10 Green and Low Carbon Cases in Shenzhen" at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28, demonstrating its leading strength in green manufacturing, energy optimization, and intelligent management. At the same time, the Cleer zero carbon factory also integrates the concept of "zero waste" throughout the entire chain of product research and development, manufacturing, packaging, and logistics, and has obtained the first "zero landfill management system certification certificate for waste" issued by the China Quality Certification Center (CQC), promoting the deepening and implementation of green transformation and becoming a model case for China's manufacturing industry to practice the dual carbon strategy.
At the product level, Cleer was the first to release the world's first open zero carbon (carbon neutral) headphones, Cleer ARC 3 Sound Arc, in April 2024. This product adopts environmentally friendly materials and clean energy throughout its entire lifecycle, from design, materials, manufacturing, packaging to logistics. Its carbon footprint is precise and traceable, and it achieves true "zero carbon emissions" through internationally certified carbon reduction (CERs). This move not only obtained the "Zero Carbon Earphone Certification Certificate" issued by Beijing Saixi Certification Center, but also was awarded the title of "Global Open Zero Carbon (Carbon Neutral) Earphone Pioneer" by the international authoritative organization Frost&Sullivan.
The concept of "green beauty" is becoming the "green passport" for enterprises to maintain the present and strive for the future. Cleer is well aware of this and has deeply rooted environmental protection concepts in the entire supply chain, from raw material selection, production process transformation to comprehensive upgrading of green logistics systems, striving to achieve low-carbon and environmental protection in every detail.
The Cleer ARC 5 sound arc and Clip star arc exhibited this time also come from the "Green Beauty Intelligent Manufacturing" production line of this zero carbon factory. They not only inherit the brand's ultimate pursuit of excellent acoustic experience, but also embody Cleer's brand mission of "technology speaks for sustainability" with cutting-edge open design, AI intelligent interaction, and multiple innovations in green manufacturing, truly becoming the "green beauty ear machine" of the "zero carbon era".
Focus on the entire audience, Cleer booth is extremely popular
At the BEYOND EXPO 2025, Cleer not only won three awards with cutting-edge acoustic technology, technological innovation, and environmental protection concepts, but also brought the Cleer ARC 5 sound arc and Clip star arc, which won the highest honor of the exhibition, the BEYOND BEST CHOICE Awards, to the venue. Once they appeared, they attracted many technology enthusiasts, media reporters, and industry guests to stop and watch. Especially the series of AI functions equipped in the product have received unanimous praise from on-site audiences and professional media. For example, the AI simultaneous interpretation function can translate English into clear and fluent Chinese in real-time when communicating with foreign guests in cross language, and the entire process of Chinese to English communication is naturally clear. The audience exclaimed, 'It's like bringing a professional translator with you,' making cross-border communication barrier free and truly demonstrating the practical application of AI technology in interpersonal communication.
At the same time, Cleer also showcased a variety of intelligent audio products with strong technological aesthetics, including the world's first flexible display smart speaker Cleer Mirage "Mirage", multi-channel intelligent voice speaker CRESPINT "Heart Moon", Bluetooth speaker STAGE "Wild Fun", headset Alpha, and true wireless active noise cancelling earphone ALLY PLUS II, which also received widespread praise from on-site consumers.
AI decoding intelligent acoustics new trend
During the 4-day BEYOND EXPO 2025 exhibition, the scene was lively and extraordinary. A total of 12 influential figures in the global technology innovation field were invited as keynote speakers, attracting 600+international investors, 100+Asian technology giants, and 150+Asian unicorn companies to participate. Deep conversations were held around artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, green technology, and other directions. The application of artificial intelligence in digital products and smart wearables has become an irreversible trend. Cleer brand, which has been deeply involved in intelligent acoustics for many years, will continue to deepen the integration of AI technology in acoustic products, launch more scenario based and intelligent innovative experiences, and meet the needs of more users to use intelligent terminal products in daily life. More information about Cleer's latest products has been logged on to the official website of the Cleer brand, mainstream e-commerce platforms such as Tiktok and offline experience stores nationwide.
