Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) (“Faraday Future”, “FF” or the “Company”), a California-based global Embodied AI (EAI) ecosystem company, announced today that Chris Chen, Co-CEO of FF AI-Robotics at FF attended the recent annual Orange County OC Maker Challenge Award Ceremony and served as a special guest presenter for the winning student teams. Attending this function highlights the Company’s deepening connection with the STEM / STEAM education ecosystem in Southern California. This event provided a valuable platform to demonstrate and discuss FF’s innovative technology, including FF’s newest robotics’ initiatives, and their real-world applications as it continues to redefine the future of the robotics ecosystem in educational environments.
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Faraday Future Attends Annual Orange County OC Maker Challenge Award Ceremony, Further Deepening the Company’s Connection with the STEM / STEAM Education Ecosystem in California
During the ceremony, the Company’s EAI Robotics products, Master and Aegis, also appeared on stage as “mystery award presenters,” delivering an AI-powered interactive showcase for students, educators, and community partners, and becoming one of the most notable technology highlights of the event.
“We believe that education, especially family education, will become the first major scenario in the initial phase of the consumer robotics market,” said Chen. “Starting with family education, FF aims to create the first breakthrough in the robotics B2C market and become a pioneer in the global EAI robotics consumer market.”
OC Maker Challenge is one of Orange County’s representative student innovation and maker education platforms. Long supported by the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) and OC Pathways, the program focuses on engineering design, robotics, AI, programming, smart hardware, and real-world problem solving.
The Company is actively advancing robots from product showcases into real education scenarios, helping K-12 students, universities, education institutions, and innovation communities engage with, understand, and apply AI and embodied intelligence at an earlier stage. By integrating EAI Robotics products with education activities, the Company aims to provide students with a more intuitive and participatory AI learning experience, helping the next generation of AI Natives develop engineering thinking, creativity, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.
FF’s invitation to participate in the OC Maker Challenge not only reflects the local education ecosystem’s recognition of the Company’s EAI Robotics, AI showcase capabilities, and embodied intelligence applications, but also further strengthens the Company’s brand influence in the U.S. AI education and robotics education markets.
The Company will continue to focus on EAI Robotics Education, expanding collaboration opportunities with schools, school districts, education institutions, STEM communities, and industry partners. FF will also continue to promote the deployment of education robots, AI innovation curricula, campus AI showcases, summer camps, and industry-academia collaboration scenarios. Looking ahead, the Company will continue advancing the development of a scaled EAI education ecosystem in the United States, helping more students become creators, builders, and future leaders in the AI era.
ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE
Founded in 2014, Faraday Future (FF) is a U.S.-based Physical AI ecosystem company dedicated to reshaping the future of robotics and mobility solutions through AI innovation and technologies. FF focuses on two major product strategies within the Embodied AI (EAI) robotics business: EAI humanoid and bionic robots, and EAI automotive-focused robots. By building a Three-in-One ecosystem of “Device, Data, EAI Brain & Open-Source and Open Platform,” FF aims to create an evolutionary flywheel: scaled device delivery, data collection and training, continuous evolution of the EAI Brain, stronger product capability, and even larger-scale delivery and deployment. Through this flywheel, FF seeks to maximize its commercial value and lead to the advancement of Physical AI. For more information, please visit Faraday Future’s official website: https://www.ff.com/
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Important factors, that may affect actual results or outcomes include, among others: the Company’s ability to timely regain compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum bid requirement; the Company’s common stock will be suspended from trading on Nasdaq if it’s closing price is $0.10 or less for 10 consecutive trading days; the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern and improve its liquidity and financial position; the Company’s ability to pay its outstanding obligations, which it currently lacks; the availability of sufficient share capital to meet its current obligations and execute on its strategy, which the Company currently lacks; the agreement of stockholders to substantially increase the Company’s share capital, which could result in substantial additional dilution; the willingness of convertible debt investors to fund the Company while it lacks sufficient share capital for conversions; demand for the Company’s robotics products; the ability of B2B preorder companies to locate customers to purchase our robotics products, on which their nonbinding preorders substantially depend; competition in the robotics industry, which includes companies with far superior experience, funding and name recognition; the Company’s reliance on a single OEM for most of its robotics products; the Company’s ability to get the planned robotics products to comply with all applicable U.S. rules and regulations; the ability of the robotics OEM to timely supply robotics to the Company; tariff uncertainty for imported products, particularly from China; demand from automobile dealers for robotics products; the Company’s ability to homologate FX vehicles for sale; the Company’s ability to secure the necessary funding to execute on the FX strategy, which is substantial; the Company’s ability to secure an occupancy certificate covering all of its Hanford facility; the Company’s ability to remediate its material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting and the risks related to the restatement of previously issued consolidated financial statements; the Company’s limited operating history and the significant barriers to growth it faces; the Company’s history of substantial losses and expectation of continued losses; the success of the Company’s payroll expense reduction plan; the Company’s ability to execute on its plans to develop and market its vehicles and the timing of these development programs; the Company’s estimates of the size of the markets for its vehicles and cost to bring those vehicles to market; the rate and degree of market acceptance of the Company’s vehicles; the Company’s ability to cover future warranty claims; the success of other competing manufacturers; the performance and security of the Company’s vehicles; current and potential litigation involving the Company; the Company’s ability to receive funds from, satisfy the conditions precedent of and close on the various financings described elsewhere by the Company; the result of future financing efforts, the failure of any of which could result in the Company seeking protection under the Bankruptcy Code; the Company’s indebtedness; the Company’s ability to cover future warranty claims; the Company’s ability to use its “at-the-market” program; insurance coverage; general economic and market conditions impacting demand for the Company’s products; potential negative impacts of a reverse stock split; potential cost, headcount and salary reduction actions may not be sufficient or may not achieve their expected results; circumstances outside of the Company’s control, such as natural disasters, climate change, health epidemics and pandemics, terrorist attacks, and civil unrest; risks related to the Company’s operations in China; the success of the Company’s remedial measures taken in response to the Special Committee findings; the Company’s dependence on its suppliers and contract manufacturer; the Company’s ability to develop and protect its technologies; the Company’s ability to protect against cybersecurity risks; and the ability of the Company to attract and retain employees, any adverse developments in existing legal proceedings or the initiation of new legal proceedings, and volatility of the Company’s stock price. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, filed with the SEC on May 14, 2026, and Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2026, and other documents filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC.
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