# 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)

## Topics

- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (29 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (34 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (33 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (25 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (24 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (25 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (16 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (17 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (15 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (16 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Inside XPeng's factory: the Iron humanoid that sorts, carries, inspects](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xpeng-iron-humanoid) (2026-10-01): Chinese EV maker XPeng (小鹏汽车) built its own humanoid (人形机器人), Iron, and already runs it on
- [China now has a national yardstick for large models — GB/T 45288.2-2025](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-large-model-eval-45288) (2026-10-01): A new national recommended standard, GB/T 45288.2-2025, tells Chinese labs how to measure 
- [China's generative-AI security baseline is now live — what GB/T 45654-2025 actually asks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-genai-security-baseline-45654) (2026-10-01): A new national recommended standard, GB/T 45654-2025, sets the security homework behind Ch
- [Zhi Hui Jun (稚晖君): the "Genius Youth" who left Huawei to build embodied robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-peng-zhimin-agibot) (2026-10-01): Peng Zhimin (彭志辉), the engineer known as Zhi Hui Jun, traded a top-tier Huawei chip role f
- [Jia Yangqing (贾扬清): the Caffe creator who built China's cloud-AI bridge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-jia-yangqing-lepton) (2026-10-01): A Tsinghua- and Berkeley-trained systems researcher wrote the Caffe framework, led Alibaba
- [The brain sensor is leaving the clinic — China's sleep and focus wearables move into the bedroom](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neurotech-home-sleep) (2026-10-01): Non-invasive brain–computer interface gear is shifting from hospitals to homes in China, l
- [GLM-4.5: Zhipu open-sources a 355B model built for agents, not just chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm45-open-weights) (2026-10-01): Zhipu AI released GLM-4.5, a 355-billion-parameter open-weight (开源权重) model tuned for inte
- [Spark X1.5: iFlytek's 293B model trained fully on domestic compute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-x15) (2026-10-01): iFlytek (科大讯飞) released Spark (星火) X1.5, a 293-billion-parameter MoE model trained and run
- [DeepSeek V3.1: one model, two minds, built for the agent era](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v31-agentic) (2026-10-01): DeepSeek's 21 August 2025 update merges thinking and non-thinking into a single open-weigh
- [China says it will build 100,000 humanoids this year — but most still aren't on the job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-humanoid-100k-output-gap) (2026-10-01): At the 2026 World AI Conference, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology p
- [The "last centimeter": China's dexterous hands are finally learning to feel](https://neuroai.site/a/na-dexterous-hands-last-centimeter) (2026-10-01): As humanoid bodies learn to walk, Chinese makers of dexterous hands (灵巧手) are racing to gi
- [Volcano Engine (火山引擎): how ByteDance turned Doubao into a model-as-a-service engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-volcano-ark-maas) (2026-10-01): ByteDance's cloud arm built a model-as-a-service (MaaS) layer on top of its Doubao large m
- [Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon join PyTorch as Platinum members — can China's AI stack go open?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-pytorch-foundation-china) (2026-10-01): At PyTorch Conference China in Shanghai, the PyTorch Foundation named Alibaba Cloud and Ca
- [China's memory maker just handed Huawei a sample of the one chip AI can't live without](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-hbm3-huawei) (2026-10-01): ChangXin Memory (长鑫存储, CXMT) has reportedly shipped 16nm HBM3 samples to Huawei — a small 
- [Kunlunxin: the Baidu chip unit heading for a Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-baidu-kunlunxin) (2026-10-01): Baidu's AI-accelerator arm Kunlunxin (昆仑芯) filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO and la
- [EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO — is a 3-year-old robot maker worth $1.5B?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-engineai-hk-ipo) (2026-10-01): Shenzhen humanoid-robot startup EngineAI has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing,
- [ByteDance's AI capex jumps 25% to ~$29B — who pays for Doubao?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-bytedance-ai-capex) (2026-10-01): ByteDance has lifted its 2026 AI-infrastructure capital spending to more than 200 billion 
- [A worm that walks inside the brain: China's "NeuroWorm" electrode can move after implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuroworm-dynamic-electrode) (2026-10-01): A team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology and Donghua University built a 
- [A paralyzed art teacher paints again — China's "fully wireless" brain implant closes the loop](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-art-teacher-paints) (2026-10-01): A 29-year-old artist left unable to move his hands after an accident has regained the abil
- [AI plans ship loads 13x faster at Shanghai's Yangshan Port](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-yangshan-port-ai-stowage) (2026-10-01): At Asia's busiest container port, an AI model now produces ship-loading plans more than te
- [An AI-designed lung drug just passed a human trial — and the hard part is next](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-insilico-ai-drug-rentosertib) (2026-10-01): Insilico Medicine's (英矽智能) Rentosertib, a TNIK inhibitor whose target and molecule were bo
- [An AI reads your retina in 2 minutes — Beijing screened 210,000 at community clinics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-haidian-retinal-ai-screening) (2026-10-01): In Beijing's Haidian district, a retinal-AI platform deployed across all 49 community heal
- [Can AI finally keep one character consistent across an entire video?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-vidu-q2-reference-video) (2026-10-01): ShengShu's (生数科技) Vidu Q2 'reference-to-video' feature lets creators pin a face, prop or s
- [The open-source image model that finally understands Chinese characters](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kuaishou-kolors-opensource) (2026-10-01): Kuaishou's (快手) Kolors (可图) text-to-image model, open-sourced in July 2024, is bilingual, 
- [Can China's AI-built microdramas (短剧) win foreign screens?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-dramawave-ai-microdrama-overseas) (2026-10-01): Kunlun Weiwei's (昆仑万维) DramaWave shows how AI-assisted production and an overseas-first mo
- [A Chinese robot just learned the car job nobody wanted — threading wires at Guinness speed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tars-wiring-harness-robot) (2026-09-30): TARS (它石智航), founded in 2025, deployed its A1 robot to thread automotive wiring harnesses 
- [Alibaba open-sourced its biggest model ever — a 2.4-trillion-parameter (大模型) you can download](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen3-8-open-weights) (2026-09-30): On 12 August 2026, Alibaba's Qwen team (通义千问) published Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B as open weights 
- [China's data-exit rule: how the 2024 cross-border flow provisions reshaped compliance](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-cross-border) (2026-09-30): A 2024 CAC rule eased the path for data to leave China while tightening the rules that sti
- [China's algorithm rulebook: the 2022 law that taught apps to ask permission first](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-algorithm-rules) (2026-09-30): Before the AI-labeling debate, China already had a binding rule for recommendation algorit
- [Wang Xiaochuan bets Baichuan (百川智能) on medical AI after the Sogou years](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xiaochuan) (2026-09-30): The Sogou founder who built China's most-used input method is now steering Baichuan Intell
- [Han Bicheng's non-invasive bet: can BrainCo (强脑科技) make brain-computer interfaces for everyday life?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-han-bicheng-brainco) (2026-09-30): The Harvard-trained founder of BrainCo chose the harder, less headline-grabbing path in br
- [MiniMax's M2.7 tries to make the model train itself — a bet on agent-native AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-m2-self-evolving-agent) (2026-09-30): On 18 March 2026, Shanghai's MiniMax (稀宇科技) released M2.7, an agent (智能体) model it says ca
- [China's first fully-implantable wireless brain chip just met a paralyzed patient](https://neuroai.site/a/na-harbin-wireless-bci-implant) (2026-09-30): A 56-year-old man with cervical spinal-cord injury in Harbin received a neuron-level, high
- [A Chinese rehab-robot maker bet one humanoid could work both wards and factories](https://neuroai.site/a/na-fourier-gr2-humanoid) (2026-09-30): Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶) launched the GR-2 humanoid in March 2026 for both rehabilitatio
- [Tencent-backed Enflame (燧原科技) just IPO'd on the STAR Market (科创板) — China's 'fourth GPU dragon' goes public](https://neuroai.site/a/na-enflame-star-market-ipo) (2026-09-30): On 11 September 2026, Shanghai Enflame Technology (燧原科技) listed on Shanghai's STAR Market 
- [SenseTime rebuilds itself as an AI cloud: SenseCore and SenseNova in one stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-sensetime-sensecore) (2026-09-30): Once known for facial recognition, the Hong Kong-listed company is now pitching a full-sta
- [Huawei Cloud's "Agentic Infra" play — 3,500 customers and a bet on the agent-native cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-cloud-agentic-ai) (2026-09-30): At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei Cloud unveiled an agent-first infrastructure strategy with 
- [Huawei's CloudMatrix 384: beating Nvidia with a rack instead of a chip?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cloudmatrix-384-supernode) (2026-09-30): With Nvidia's Jensen Huang admitting the China AI-chip market is "largely conceded" to Hua
- [Transwarp lists in Hong Kong under HKEX's 18C rule — a US$88M bet on AI infrastructure software](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-transwarp-hk-ipo) (2026-09-30): Transwarp (星环科技) became the first A-share company to list in Hong Kong under the 18C speci
- [ByteDance's US$29.6B loan — Asia's second-biggest AI war chest of 2026](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-bytedance-ai-loan) (2026-09-30): Reuters and Bloomberg report ByteDance has lined up a US$29.6 billion syndicated loan for 
- [China's invasive brain chip is about to meet humans — and it is as fast as Neuralink's](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beinao2-invasive-bci) (2026-09-30): BeiNao-2 (北脑二号), a 512-channel fully-invasive wireless BCI from the Beijing Brain Institut
- [China wrote a rule for brain-tech that never enters a hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-rehab-national-standard) (2026-09-30): Two foundational BCI national standards took effect Aug 1, 2026, and a non-invasive rehabi
- [Baichuan open-sourced a 235B medical model (大模型) trained to question you like a doctor](https://neuroai.site/a/na-baichuan-m3-medical-open) (2026-09-30): On 13 January 2026, Baichuan AI (百川智能) released Baichuan-M3 as open weights — a 235-billio
- [Two workers, 3,000 mu of cotton: China's AI 'super farm' in action](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-super-farm) (2026-09-30): At XAG's Guangzhou and Xinjiang "super farms", drones, BeiDou-guided tractors and an AI 'f
- [In China's grain heartland, AI now watches 3.2 million hectares](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-heilongjiang-ai-farming) (2026-09-30): Heilongjiang, China's top grain province, is folding AI, drones and robots into farming — 
- [A VW factory in Tianjin now runs 105 AI scenarios — what that really means](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-faw-vw-tianjin-ai-factory) (2026-09-30): FAW-Volkswagen's Tianjin plant has folded AI into stamping, welding, painting and assembly
- [A Chery-backed humanoid (人形机器人) is now selling in 60+ countries — China's robot export moment?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aimoga-mornine-export) (2026-09-30): AiMOGA Robotics, the embodied-intelligence (具身智能) arm of carmaker Chery (奇瑞), put its Morn
- [ByteDance's Seedance 2.0: can a 60-second prompt replace a film crew?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedance-2-video) (2026-09-30): ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 turns a single prompt into a 15-second multi-shot video with sync
- [China's AI microdramas hit the rulebook: every AI episode must now show its label](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-microdrama-rulebook) (2026-09-30): As AI-generated microdramas (短剧) flood Chinese platforms, Beijing issued its first dedicat
- [Tencent's Hunyuan3D goes open source: type a sentence, get a 3D world?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-hunyuan3d-open-source) (2026-09-30): Tencent has open-sourced Hunyuan3D-2.1 (production-ready text/image-to-3D with PBR materia
- [After the Spring Festival Gala, Unitree's US$13,500 G1 became the robot people actually tried to buy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-g1) (2026-09-29): Unitree (宇树科技) put its G1 humanoid (人形机器人) on stage at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala, and 
- [UBTECH's Walker S humanoids are now working real shifts inside Chinese auto plants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s) (2026-09-29): UBTECH's Walker S industrial humanoid (人形机器人) has moved from trade-show dancing to paid, r
- [A Chinese factory just put nearly 100 humanoid (人形机器人) workers on the payroll](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-a2-factory) (2026-09-29): In August 2025, AgiBot (智元机器人) signed a contract with Fulin Precision (富临精工) to deploy nea
- [China now forces a label on every AI-made image, video and text](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-aigc-labeling-cn) (2026-09-29): Since 1 September 2025, China has required service providers to mark AI-generated and AI-s
- [China's 15th Five-Year Plan makes 'AI+' a national default](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-15th-5yr-ai-plan) (2026-09-29): The 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), adopted in March 2026, puts artificial intelligence a
- [Wang Xingxing bet Unitree on cheap robots — now it's a $9 billion IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xingxing) (2026-09-29): Wang Xingxing (王兴兴), the 1990-born engineer who founded Unitree (宇树科技) in 2016, turned a l
- [Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋) and the cheap-AI doctrine that rattled Silicon Valley](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liang-wenfeng) (2026-09-29): Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋), the former quantitative-fund manager who founded DeepSeek in 2023, tu
- [StepFun open-sources Step 3, a 321-billion-parameter multimodal model anyone can run](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-stepfun-baichuan-open) (2026-09-29): Shanghai's StepFun (阶跃星辰) released Step 3 as open weights under Apache 2.0 on 31 July 2025
- [Alibaba's Qwen just shipped an open model you can run on one GPU — and it thinks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-new-open) (2026-09-29): On 14 August 2026, Alibaba's Qwen (通义千问) team published Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 l
- [DeepSeek just gave away a 552-billion-parameter model — and it's built to read, not just write](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v41-open) (2026-09-29): DeepSeek (深度求索) released V4.1-Flash as open weights on 10 September 2026 — a 552B-paramete
- [Baidu's ERNIE (文心) bet: why China's search giant opened its models after years of keeping them closed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-ernie) (2026-09-29): Baidu has spent 2025 and 2026 reversing a long-held strategy, open-sourcing its ERNIE (文心)
- [Alibaba's Qwen became the world's most-downloaded open AI model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-open) (2026-09-29): Alibaba's Qwen (通义千问) family crossed 3 billion downloads in 2026 and overtook Meta's Llama
- [Moore Threads booked US$209M in sales and turned a profit in Q1 — five years after betting on one GPU design](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-moore-threads-gpu) (2026-09-29): Moore Threads (摩尔线程), the first full-function GPU company to list on China's STAR Market, 
- [How Biren's BR-series GPU (壁仞) survived the Entity List and reached a Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-biren-gpu) (2026-09-29): Biren (壁仞科技) launched its BR100 general-purpose GPU (通用GPU) in 2022 as a domestic answer t
- [Zhipu's Hong Kong debut turns a Tsinghua spinout into China's first public large-model (大模型) company](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-zhipu-funding) (2026-09-29): On 8 January 2026, Zhipu AI (智谱) listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and closed 13% abo
- [MiniMax's (稀宇科技) funding arc: from Tencent and Alibaba cheques to a HK$4.8 billion IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-minimax-funding) (2026-09-29): MiniMax (稀宇科技) listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 9 January 2026, raising HK$4.8 bi
- [China's first approved brain–computer interface lets paralyzed patients grasp again — no wire through the skull](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-tsinghua-neo-wireless) (2026-09-29): In March 2026, China's drug regulator cleared the NEO system — a wireless, semi-invasive b
- [A Chinese implant let a paralyzed art teacher paint again — and it isn't built like Neuralink's](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuroxess-invasive-bci) (2026-09-29): NeuroXess (脑虎科技) has moved its fully implantable, wireless brain–computer interface (脑机接口)
- [A Shanghai brain–computer interface now decodes Chinese from neural signals — built for patients who have lost speech](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-fudan-chinese-char-als) (2026-09-29): A collaboration between Fudan University's Huashan Hospital and the Shanghai Rockies Neuro
- [Tencent's Yuanbao became China's third-largest AI app by riding the WeChat ecosystem](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-yuanbao-tencent) (2026-09-29): Tencent's Yuanbao (元宝) assistant, built on the company's Hunyuan large model (大模型), launch
- [Doubao (豆包) became China's default AI assistant — quietly, and through everyone's phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-doubao-assistant) (2026-09-29): By March 2026, ByteDance's Doubao (豆包) assistant had 345 million monthly active users — mo
- [Tencent Miying's AI imaging has screened nearly 10 million patients in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-medical-imaging-cn) (2026-09-29): Tencent's medical-imaging arm Miying (觅影) has grown from a 2017 demo into one of China's m
- [Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 can now put words in a character's mouth — and it's already a US$500M business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-3-video) (2026-09-29): Kuaishou's Kling (可灵) AI shipped its 3.0 model family on 5 February 2026 with native audio
- [Two Chinese video models launched the same day — and split on who gets to own them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-jimeng-hailuo-video) (2026-09-29): On 31 July 2026, ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 through its Jimeng (即梦) app while MiniMax
- [China now makes AI digital-human livestreamers show a label — or face being taken down](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-digital-human) (2026-09-29): A wave of rules and platform pledges in China now forces AI-generated digital human (数字人) 
- [Tinavi spent 15 years on one orthopedic robot — and became China's surgical-robot pioneer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tinavi-surgical) (2026-09-28): Tinavi's TiRobot (天玑) has assisted in more than 180,000 orthopedic procedures and made the
- [China's Neolix quietly put 10,000 delivery robots on the road — then 15,000](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-delivery) (2026-09-28): Neolix (新石器无人车), a Beijing-based autonomous-delivery-vehicle maker, became the first compa
- [China's AgiBot shipped more humanoid robots than anyone else in 2025 — and walked one 106 km](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-zhiyuan-humanoid) (2026-09-28): Zhiyuan Robotics, better known as AgiBot (智元机器人), went from founding in 2023 to the top of
- [Why Chinese apps now stamp "AI生成" on everything you see](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling) (2026-09-28): China's Measures for Labeling of AI-Generated/Synthetic Content (《人工智能生成合成内容标识办法》) took ef
- [Zhipu's Tsinghua founders chose a homegrown model architecture — and took it to Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhipu-founder) (2026-09-28): Spun out of a Tsinghua University lab in 2019, Zhipu built the GLM large model (大模型) famil

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