# NeuroAI

> NeuroAI is an independent English-language publication covering China's artificial
> intelligence industry: brain-computer interfaces, humanoid robotics, open-weight
> foundation models, domestic compute, generative media, AI deployment in industry and
> medicine, capital markets and policy. Every article is written for a general reader,
> opens with a "Key takeaways" list of dated figures, and names the filing, government
> disclosure or third-party report behind each number.

Site: https://neuroai.site/
Language: English
Chinese sister site: https://aiai.cafe/ (Simplified Chinese)
Publisher: BrainNet (脑机网), an independent AI-industry observatory based in China.
Flagship column: China AI Decoded, https://neuroai.site/c/decode — five parts, updated twice weekly.
Citation format: NeuroAI (脑机网), "<article title>," <date>, <article URL>.
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## Topics

- [China AI Decoded](https://neuroai.site/c/decode): Explained · Evidence · Context (43 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (115 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (125 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (120 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (117 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (111 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (97 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (87 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (80 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (83 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (87 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Why autonomous mobile robots are becoming the default in Chinese warehouses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-warehouse-amr-china) (2026-10-30): China's warehouses and factories are swapping fixed conveyors for flexible autonomous mobi
- [Why China is sending robots into dams, ports and pipelines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-underwater-inspection-china) (2026-10-30): China is deploying underwater robots to inspect dams, ports, pipelines and subsea cables, 
- [Why Chinese hospitals are handing medicine runs to delivery robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hospital-delivery-china) (2026-10-30): Chinese hospitals are handing medicine, linen and specimen runs to delivery robots, easing
- [Why Chinese farms are betting on laser weeding robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agricultural-weeding-china) (2026-10-30): Laser weeding robots are spreading across Chinese farms as an aging workforce and chemical
- [7 cities, 100,000 datasets: China's state-led push to make AI training data pay](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-high-quality-datasets) (2026-10-30): Two national documents — a 2024 data-labeling opinion and a 2026 high-quality-dataset plan
- [From 20% to 50%: China's cities race to hand out 'computing-power vouchers' (算力券)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-computing-power-vouchers) (2026-10-30): Local governments across China now refund part of corporate AI training bills through 'com
- [In force since 2022, planned since 2025: China's dual-track AI medical-device rules](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-medical-device-review) (2026-10-30): China already enforces two AI medical-device review guidelines; a 2025 agency announcement
- [Lou Tiancheng: the TopCoder champion behind Pony.ai's US$452M Nasdaq debut](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lou-tiancheng-pony) (2026-10-30): How a competitive-programming prodigy became CTO of Pony.ai and pushed Robotaxi from demo 
- [Liang Wenfeng: the founder who built a frontier AI model for ~US$6M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liang-wenfeng-deepseek) (2026-10-30): How a former quant turned DeepSeek into a low-cost, open-weight challenger to the world's 
- [Chen Tianshi: the chip designer who took Cambricon past US$140B](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianshi-cambricon) (2026-10-30): How a former CAS researcher built China's best-known AI-chip company and rode the domestic
- [Moore Threads raises RMB 8B in STAR Market debut as 'China's Nvidia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-moore-threads-ipo) (2026-10-30): Priced at RMB 114.28, the domestic GPU designer listed on Shanghai's STAR board with a ~RM
- [Momenta's HK$6.8B IPO puts 'physical AI' on Hong Kong's public market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-momenta-hk-ipo) (2026-10-30): The autonomous-driving firm priced its Hong Kong debut at HK$295.6, raising up to HK$6.8B 
- [Reasoning models (推理模型): from GPT-4o's 12% to o1's 83% on AIME](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-reasoning) (2026-10-30): Reasoning models (推理模型) like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 think step by step before answering
- [Open weights (开源权重): 405B Llama to 671B DeepSeek, the frontier goes free](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-open-weights) (2026-10-30): Open-weight large models (大模型) now match closed rivals on quality while running on your ow
- [Mixture-of-experts (混合专家): how 671B DeepSeek-V3 runs on 37B of compute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-moe-efficiency) (2026-10-30): Mixture-of-experts (混合专家) lets a large model (大模型) hold 671B parameters but spend compute 
- [Long-context models (长上下文): Gemini's 1M-token window and the memory bill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-long-context) (2026-10-30): A 1M-token context window lets a large model (大模型) read a whole book at once — but length 
- [EngineAI's US$200M round values a Shenzhen humanoid maker above US$1.4B](https://neuroai.site/a/na-engineai-200m) (2026-10-30): The embodied-AI startup's B-round, led by a Henan state fund and co-led by Luxshare, shows
- [China Subsidised Smart Glasses Before the Use Case Arrived](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-smart-glasses-subsidy) (2026-10-30): Smart glasses joined China's 15% digital-purchase subsidy in January 2026. Shipments fell 
- [China's AI Launch Gate Is a Filing Number, Not an Approval](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-filing-register) (2026-10-30): Two registers, 1,112 filed services and 731 registered apps: how China's filing system, ra
- [Zhipu's HK$4.3B Hong Kong IPO makes it the first AGI-base-model company to list](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-zhipu-hk-ipo) (2026-10-30): Beijing's Zhipu (智谱) became the first company built on AGI foundation models to go public,
- [MiniMax open-sources H3 and posts US$117M H1 revenue as it chases an open-weight moat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-minimax-h3-open) (2026-10-30): MiniMax (稀宇科技) released its H3 video model as open weights and reported US$117M first-half
- [DeepSeek opens its 1M-token V4 models under MIT — and redraws the long-context cost line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-deepseek-v4-open) (2026-10-30): DeepSeek's V4 family pairs a million-token context with an open MIT license, betting that 
- [The $11B ceramic: how silicon carbide became AI's power enabler](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-silicon-carbide-power) (2026-10-30): As AI racks climb toward 100 kW and beyond, silicon carbide power devices — not just the G
- [XuanTie C950: a RISC-V CPU that serves a 27B model at 30 tokens/sec](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-risc-v-ai) (2026-10-30): Alibaba's XuanTie C950 pushes open RISC-V silicon into server-class AI inference — and sid
- [CPO at 5x: how co-packaged optics rewires the AI data center](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-co-packaged-optics) (2026-10-30): NVIDIA's co-packaged optics switches have entered mass production — putting light, not cop
- [From 35K to 130K wafers: why TSMC's CoWoS still can't catch AI demand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-advanced-packaging) (2026-10-30): Advanced packaging, not the fab, has become the binding constraint on AI chip supply — and
- [No brain surgery required: Synchron's blood-vessel BCI reaches 10 paralyzed patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-synchron-stentrode) (2026-10-30): Synchron's Stentrode slides through a vein instead of opening the skull — a lower-risk pat
- [296 stroke patients and a 17-hospital trial: what non-invasive BCI really delivers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-noninvasive-stroke-rehab) (2026-10-30): Non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (脑机接口) are helping some stroke survivors retrain mo
- [Brain data is now legally private in two US states — what that means for you](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neural-data-privacy) (2026-10-30): Colorado and California have turned neural data into protected privacy — the first real gu
- [The $699 headphones that read your brain: can consumer EEG really boost focus?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-consumer-eeg-headphones) (2026-10-30): Neurable's MW75 Neuro puts EEG sensors in Master & Dynamic headphones — a real consumer br
- [1.265 million learning tablets in one quarter: how AI tutors moved into China's living rooms](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-tutoring-china) (2026-10-30): Five years after China banned paid cram schools, AI tutor devices (AI家教) are filling the g
- [488,000 screenings and counting: how retinal AI is quietly reshaping China's eye exams](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-health-screening-china) (2026-10-30): AI retinal screening (眼底AI) cleared China's strictest medical-device bar in 2025; the tech
- [Chinese enterprises now route 60% of customer chats to AI — but the hard ones still need a human](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-customer-service-china) (2026-10-30): Enterprise conversational AI (智能客服) is one of China's fastest-growing software markets; th
- [That voice on the call wasn't your friend: how speech cloning outran consent in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-voice-cloning-china) (2026-10-30): Realistic voice cloning moved from lab demo to pocket app in China. The consent and deepfa
- [A phone app now finishes the video a freelancer used to: how AI editing reset the creator's job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-video-editing-china) (2026-10-30): AI editing features inside China's short-video apps turned phone owners into one-person st
- [The model sang the hit, nobody licensed it: AI music's unpaid questions in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-generation-china) (2026-10-30): AI music went from a 2023 viral stunt to an industrial tool in China. The copyright and pa
- [Type a sentence, get a layout: how AI design tools reset the Chinese designer's day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-design-tools-china) (2026-10-30): China's homegrown design tools added model-driven features that draft the first version fo
- [A Hangzhou exoskeleton helped a wheelchair user walk again — at 1.8 kg](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-transitx-exoskeleton) (2026-10-29): Hangzhou TransitX's lightweight hip-assist exoskeleton drew global attention after an Arge
- [China's first 10,000-unit humanoid line rolls one robot off every 30 minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-leju-dongfang-humanoid-line) (2026-10-29): A Foshan line jointly built by Leju Robotics and Dongfang Precision can assemble a humanoi
- [A Tianjin quadruped works where cameras can't see, in 20+ Chinese cities](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galileo-quadruped-inspection) (2026-10-29): Galileo (Tianjin) Technology's fully self-developed quadruped robots use force-feedback ra
- [Cainiao's climbing robots fill a Guangzhou warehouse with 135 machines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-cainiao-climbing-warehouse) (2026-10-29): Cainiao delivered Guangzhou's first self-developed climbing-robot warehouse in September 2
- [A Border Province Just Staked RMB 45 Billion on Becoming China's AI Gateway to Southeast Asia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-guangxi-ai-asean-hub) (2026-10-29): Guangxi's 2026 government work report commits RMB 45 billion (≈ US$6.3bn) over three years
- [China's AI Risk-Management Standard Becomes Binding Next Month](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-risk-management-standard) (2026-10-29): Issued under MIIT Announcement 2026 No. 18, the YD/T 7173-2026 standard for AI system risk
- [China's Career List Gains 11 New Jobs, Including Robot Technicians and Agent Builders](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-new-occupations) (2026-10-29): On 9 September 2026, China's human-resources ministry formally added 11 new occupations an
- [After Three Years in the Red, Zhou Hongyi Bets 360 on AI Agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-hongyi-360-ai) (2026-10-29): 360 founder Zhou Hongyi pivoted his security company to "360Brain" and an "All in Agent" s
- [Tianjin's Xu Minpeng Builds a Brain–Computer Link That Learns Back](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-xu-minpeng-tianjin-bci) (2026-10-29): Tianjin University researcher Xu Minpeng co-led a non-invasive, two-way adaptive BCI publi
- [From a Tsinghua NLP Lab to Samsung's Galaxy AI: Liu Zhiyuan's Edge-Model Bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liu-zhiyuan-modelbest-minicpm) (2026-10-29): Tsinghua professor Liu Zhiyuan co-founded ModelBest to build small on-device models; its M
- [Qwen Reaches One Million Tokens and Keeps Its Weights Open](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-million-token-context) (2026-10-29): Alibaba's Qwen team extended its open-weight models to a one-million-token context in Janu
- [iFlytek's Spark Teaches Math and Understands 37 Languages of Speech](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-voice-education) (2026-10-29): How iFlytek built Spark (星火) around China's two hardest product problems—classroom educati
- [DeepSeek Trained a Frontier Model for Less Than US$6 Million](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-efficiency) (2026-10-29): How DeepSeek's open-weight V3 and R1 rewrote the cost math of frontier large models—and wh
- [Baidu's ERNIE 4.5 Lands as Open Weights in Ten Sizes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-ernie45-open-weights) (2026-10-29): Baidu open-sourced the ERNIE 4.5 family on 30 June 2025 across ten checkpoints under Apach
- [NIO Put a 5nm Chip in 150,000 Cars — and May Sell It to Rivals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-nio-shenji-chip) (2026-10-29): NIO's self-developed Shenji NX9031 smart-driving chip has shipped in more than 150,000 veh
- [Moore Threads Built a 10,000-Card GPU Cluster — and Listed to Pay for It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-moore-threads-gpu) (2026-10-29): Moore Threads, China's first listed full-function GPU maker, has mass-produced five chip g
- [Li Auto's Driver Model Fielded 12 Million Commands in a Year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-liauto-mindvla) (2026-10-29): Li Auto's unified Vision-Language-Action driver model reached 80% monthly use and 12.25 mi
- [Xiaomi Shipped 1 Million XRING O1 Chips. The Harder Race Is the One After That](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-xiaomi-xring-soc) (2026-10-29): Xiaomi's in-house 3nm XRING O1 passed 1 million shipments, but the real test for China's d
- [US Export Controls Opened a FPGA Gap in China. Local Makers Filled the Low End, Not the Top](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-fpga-localization) (2026-10-29): US controls stretched lead times for advanced FPGAs in China to about 52 weeks, pushing lo
- [China's SoCs Depend on Arm China — the Licensing Gate Western Export Rules Keep Tightening](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-armchina-ip-house) (2026-10-29): Arm derived roughly 18% of its fiscal 2026 revenue from China through Arm China, a company
- [A Single AI Server Rack Now Pulls 130 kW — and the Power Chips Behind It Are Mostly Imported](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ai-server-power-chips) (2026-10-29): AI racks like Nvidia's GB200 draw 125–135 kW each, straining legacy power delivery and exp
- [Neolix Closes Nearly $400M Series E as State AI Fund Backs Driverless Delivery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-neolix-series-e) (2026-10-29): Beijing's Neolix (新石器) closed a nearly US$400M Series E co-led by Boyu Capital and a state
- [Micro-Intelligence Halts Hong Kong IPO Days Before Debut, Citing Market Conditions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-micro-intelligence-ipo) (2026-10-29): Micro-Intelligence (微亿智造) opened Hong Kong IPO books on 20 October to raise up to HK$800M,
- [The First Approved Brain–Computer Implant Is Now Helping Paralyzed Patients in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-neo-bci-clinic) (2026-10-29): Neuracle's NEO, the world's first regulator-cleared implantable brain–computer interface (
- [A Beijing Farm-Robot Maker Will Ship More Than 10,000 Units to Malaysia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-farm-robots-asean) (2026-10-29): Maimai Technology (麦麦科技) signed a deal to deploy more than 10,000 AI-powered agricultural 
- [More Than 90% of China's New Micro-Dramas Are Now Made by AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-microdrama-pipeline) (2026-10-29): China's micro-drama (短剧) industry now generates the vast majority of new titles with AI, c
- [Xinhua Sends an AI-Made Short Video Past 50 Million Views at the Two Sessions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-xinhua-ai-news-video) (2026-10-29): Xinhua (新华社) produced "2026, Rivers and Mountains Toward the Future" with AI across the en
- [Xiaohongshu Open-Sources FireRed Models, Pushing AI Image and Video Editing to Its Creators](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-xiaohongshu-firered) (2026-10-29): Xiaohongshu (小红书) open-sourced three generative AI models in April 2026, turning its recom
- [Bilibili Open-Sources Index-Translate, a 150-Language Model Family for Video Dubbing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-bilibili-index-translate) (2026-10-29): Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) released Index-Translate under Apache-2.0 on 30 September 2026, a Qwen3.5-
- [China's AI Comic-Dramas Hit a 40 Billion Yuan Market as Platforms Flood the Feed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-comic-drama-boom) (2026-10-29): AI comic-drama (AI漫剧) is on track to exceed 40 billion yuan in 2026, but breakout hits are
- [A Chinese robot now resets fractured bones without opening the patient](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-rossum-orthopedic-surgery) (2026-10-28): Beijing Rossum's intelligent orthopedic robot cleared China's NMPA for spine and long-bone
- [Hotels are quietly putting humanoid and specialized robots on the same shift](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-keenon-hotel-humanoid) (2026-10-28): KEENON's 'general + specialized' service-robot playbook is moving from trade-show demos in
- [One Chinese factory just built its 200,000th mobile robot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hikrobot-200k-amr) (2026-10-28): Hikrobot, Hikvision's mobile-robot arm, crossed 200,000 units off the line as China's AMR 
- [China's first approved rehab exoskeleton is now cheap enough for home use](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ailegs-rehab-exoskeleton) (2026-10-28): Da'ai Robot's lower-limb rehab exoskeleton has fallen from roughly ¥1M to consumer pricing
- [Zhejiang backs its AI ambitions with a 27-point plan and a ¥1-trillion industry target](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-zhejiang-ai-measures) (2026-10-28): Zhejiang Province's effective support measures aim for over ¥1 trillion in core AI revenue
- [China publishes industrial-internet and AI fusion action plan targeting 50,000 factory network upgrades by 2028](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-industrial-internet-ai-fusion) (2026-10-28): MIIT's December 2025 action plan pushes AI deeper into factory floors, setting hard 2028 t
- [China's data-rights registry opens for public comment — but it is still only a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-property-rights-draft) (2026-10-28): The National Data Administration's draft Data Property Rights Registration Guidelines clos
- [Zhou Bowen's Shanghai lab wants AI to do science, not just answer questions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-bowen-shanghai-ai-lab) (2026-10-28): Shanghai AI Laboratory director Zhou Bowen released the 'Shusheng·Duanyan' platform at WAI
- [Inside AMEC: how Yin Zhiyao turned one etching tool into a 54-product platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yin-zhiyao-amec) (2026-10-28): Founder Yin Zhiyao has grown AMEC from a single plasma etcher into a broad semiconductor-e
- [Huang Tiejun's BAAI put a Chinese large model on the cover of Nature — by refusing to copy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-huang-tiejun-baai) (2026-10-28): Under founding director Huang Tiejun, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence persi
- [Shanghai AI Lab's 8B model quietly rewrote the math on training cost](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-internlm3-open-llm) (2026-10-28): InternLM3-8B-Instruct from Shanghai AI Laboratory was trained on 4 trillion tokens and the
- [OpenAI's open weights just gave Chinese developers another local option](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-gpt-oss-open-weights) (2026-10-28): OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, released under Apache 2.0 in August 2025, are open-
- [Baidu open-sources an 8B image model that runs on a consumer GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ernie-image-open-dit) (2026-10-28): Baidu's ERNIE-Image is an open-weight, single-stream DiT text-to-image model with 8B param

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