# 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

- [China AI Decoded](https://neuroai.site/c/decode): Explained · Evidence · Context (25 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (71 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (77 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (72 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (69 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (64 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (61 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (51 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (49 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (47 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (51 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Why China Gives Away Its Best Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-why-china-open-weights) (2026-10-19): Chinese labs give away frontier models under permissive licences on purpose, buying distri
- [140 Trillion Tokens a Day: The Price War China Already Ended](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-token-economy-price-war) (2026-10-19): China's token price war ended because demand exploded and supply got expensive, splitting 
- [China's Robots Are Being Designed for Its Grandparents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-robots-aging-china) (2026-10-19): Demography, not fashion, is pulling Chinese robots toward care work, but certification and
- [Why Beijing Regulates the Algorithm but Not the Ambition](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-regulate-without-slowing) (2026-10-19): China's AI rules target distribution and human-machine relationships, not model capability
- [How to Read a Chinese Model Card Without Being Fooled](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-read-model-card) (2026-10-19): A Chinese model card is a marketing document with real engineering inside. Read the harnes
- [Beyond the Fab: China's Slow Build in Packaging and EDA](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-packaging-eda-long-game) (2026-10-19): China's chip plan is a stack plan of chiplets, packaging and tools, and its progress is re
- [The Microdrama Pipeline Is China's Most Successful AI Export](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-microdrama-pipeline) (2026-10-19): A live-action season at US$300,000 now has a synthetic equivalent at US$10,000–20,000, and
- [Who Pays for China's AI Boom? Follow the Local Government Money](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-local-government-ai-funds) (2026-10-19): The most active investor in Chinese AI is a city government. Tournament-style mother funds
- [The Factory Floor Is Where China's AI Case Gets Real](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-lighthouse-factory-roi) (2026-10-19): Fifteen Chinese plants report 29% efficiency gains and 47% fewer defects, and what the pro
- [China's Chips Are Built to Serve, Not to Train](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-inference-first) (2026-10-19): Chinese accelerators are shaped for serving tokens rather than training frontier models, a
- [Humanoids Went to Work in China First. That's the Whole Strategy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-humanoids-factory-first) (2026-10-19): China's humanoid push targets factories, labs and training centres rather than living room
- [How to Read China's AI Numbers Without Being Fooled](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-how-to-read-china-numbers) (2026-10-19): Most headline figures on Chinese AI measure capacity, shipments or downloads, and four que
- [The Real Chip Shortage Is Memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-hbm-bottleneck) (2026-10-19): Stacked memory, not the logic die, is what caps China's AI chip output, and that is why ac
- [The Grey Market That Keeps China's AI Running](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-grey-compute-market) (2026-10-19): Export controls built a parallel chip market with a premium and a compliance risk, and its
- [China's AI Is Going Abroad Differently: Capability, Not Products](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-going-global-gulf-asean) (2026-10-19): Chinese AI exports are cloud regions, sovereign models and robots on order rather than app
- [The Hidden Industry Behind China's Robots: People Paid to Teach Them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-embodied-data) (2026-10-19): The scarce input in embodied AI is recorded human motion, not hardware, and China is build
- [The Distillation Debate: What Chinese Labs Actually Learned](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-distillation-question) (2026-10-19): Distillation allegations are partly true and mostly a distraction. China's real edge is po
- [The Consumer Detour in Chinese Neurotech](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-consumer-neurotech) (2026-10-19): Consumer EEG in China sells hardware and attention rather than medicine, and the gap with 
- [China Is Building AI Like a Power Grid. The Bill Is 7 Trillion Yuan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-compute-grid-utility) (2026-10-19): China plans compute as public infrastructure, and the binding constraint is electricity an
- [What China's BCI Approval Actually Proved](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-bci-regulatory-shortcut) (2026-10-19): NEO's clearance was a regulatory design win more than a technical leap, and payment, durab
- [Huawei Has Half of China's AI Chip Market — and About 1% of Nvidia's Compute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ascend-50-percent) (2026-10-19): Huawei's Ascend holds about half of China's accelerator market, but on total compute it tr
- [China Writes the Rule Before It Writes the Law](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-rules-before-law) (2026-10-19): China governs AI through technical standards that move faster than statutes and become the
- [China's 'AI Plus' Is Not a Slogan. Here's What It Actually Changes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-plus-what-changes) (2026-10-19): AI Plus is a procurement and adoption programme with dated usage targets, so the numbers t
- [AI Is Already in Chinese Hospitals. The Bill Is the Experiment](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-hospitals-reimbursement) (2026-10-19): China has approved more than 110 clinical AI products, but payment is the missing piece an
- [China's Agent Advantage Is Not the Model. It's the App](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-agents-super-app) (2026-10-19): Chinese agents scale because super-apps already supply identity, payments, a service catal
- [A Shanghai warehouse-robot firm quietly became the one Chinese name KION trusts to automate the world's forklifts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-quicktron-amr-warehouse) (2026-10-18): Quicktron (快仓) builds autonomous mobile robots for warehouses and factories, and its 2020 
- [A Harbin-lab surgical robot is finally clearing the regulatory wall that kept Chinese operating rooms on imported arms](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-kangduo-laparoscopic-surgery) (2026-10-18): Kangduo (康多), born from a Harbin Institute of Technology team, is among the first domestic
- [How a Shanghai cobot maker turned "useful everywhere" into a global assembly line habit](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-jaka-cobots-global) (2026-10-18): JAKA (节卡), a Shanghai collaborative-robot company, is betting that the next wave of factor
- [China's industrial-robot champion just went A+H, and it now outships the foreign giants at home](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-estun-industrial-ah-listing) (2026-10-18): Estun (埃斯顿), the Nanjing robot maker that spent a decade buying its way up the value chain
- [Qwen3.5 Ships a 397B Open-Weight Model That Sees and Reads](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen3-5) (2026-10-18): Alibaba's Qwen3.5-397B-A17B combines open weights, native image-and-video understanding, a
- [China's Global AI Governance Initiative asks who should write the world's AI rules](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-global-ai-governance-initiative) (2026-10-18): Announced at a Beijing summit and published by the Foreign Ministry, the Global AI Governa
- [China quietly relaxed its cross-border data rules, and multinationals noticed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-cross-border-data-flow-provisions) (2026-10-18): The Cyberspace Administration's Provisions on Promoting and Regulating Cross-Border Data F
- [China forces AI-generated content to reveal itself — visibly and invisibly](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-synthetic-content-labeling) (2026-10-18): A four-minister rule plus a mandatory national standard now require every AI-made text, im
- [The implant that skips the skull — how a Tsinghua team made nerve-zapping affordable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-pins-vns-neuromodulation-implants) (2026-10-18): PINS Medical (品驰医疗), working with Tsinghua, turned vagus-nerve stimulation into a locally 
- [The 1992-born Stanford PhD who skipped the humanoid beauty contest and built a robot that just works](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-he-galbot) (2026-10-18): Wang He, a Peking University professor and Galbot (银河通用) founder, bet on wheeled, task-foc
- [A Microsoft veteran who built Bing just bet China's AI future on one stubborn idea](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-jiang-daxin-stepfun) (2026-10-18): Jiang Daxin left a 16-year Microsoft career to found StepFun (阶跃星辰), betting that multimod
- [He watched therapists hand-move patients' legs — then built China's rehab robots and its first mass-produced humanoid](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-gu-jie-fourier) (2026-10-18): Gu Jie founded Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶智能) after the 2008 earthquake showed him rehab rob
- [The chip under the skull — a Tsinghua spinoff building China's full-stack implant hardware](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuramatrix-invasive-bci-platform) (2026-10-18): NeuraMatrix (宁矩科技), incubated at Tsinghua, is one of the few Chinese firms designing its o
- [MiniMax M3 Packs Frontier Coding, 1M Context and Vision Into One Open Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-m3) (2026-10-18): MiniMax M3 combines open weights, a million-token window, and native image-and-video under
- [The brain-inspired chip that skipped the von Neumann bottleneck](https://neuroai.site/a/na-lynxi-brain-inspired-computing) (2026-10-18): Lynxi (灵汐科技), a Tsinghua-born neuromorphic computing company, is betting that brain-like c
- [The helium is gone — a wearable helmet that reads the brain's magnetic whisper](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kunmai-opm-meg-quantum-imaging) (2026-10-18): Beijing's Kunmai (昆迈医疗) turned brain-mapping MEG into a helium-free, wearable helmet, and 
- [Tencent's Hunyuan-T1 Brings Mamba to a Front-Line Reasoning Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-t1) (2026-10-18): Tencent's Hunyuan-T1 is the company's first deep-reasoning model and, per Tencent, the fir
- [DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp Debuts Sparse Attention to Make Long Context Cheap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-v32-exp) (2026-10-18): DeepSeek's experimental V3.2-Exp introduces a fine-grained sparse-attention mechanism that
- [WeRide (文远知行) takes its robotaxi to Madrid — and tests whether China's AV firms can win abroad first](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-weride-global-robotaxi) (2026-10-18): WeRide (文远知行), the Nasdaq- and Hong Kong-listed autonomous-driving company, is expanding r
- [WPS AI turns 80 million Chinese users into a live test of office AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kingsoft-wps-ai) (2026-10-18): Kingsoft Office (金山办公) reports more than 80 million monthly active WPS AI users in China, 
- [ModelScope (魔搭社区) just crossed 25 million developers — and opened its internals to agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-modelscope) (2026-10-18): Alibaba's open-source model community ModelScope (魔搭社区) reports 25 million developers and 
- [Zhaoxin (兆芯) KX-7000 shows China's x86 path: a home-grown Chiplet desktop CPU that still runs Windows](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-zhaoxin-x86-cpu) (2026-10-18): Zhaoxin's (兆芯) KX-7000 desktop processor pairs a new 'Century Avenue' core with a Chiplet 
- [Rockchip (瑞芯微) rides the edge-AI wave as its RK3588 SoC becomes the default brain for Chinese robots and cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-rockchip-aiot-soc) (2026-10-18): Rockchip (瑞芯微) posted 2024 revenue of ≈ US$436M with profit up 341%, powered by its RK3588
- [NAURA (北方华创) crosses US$4B as China's chip-tool giant fills the gap US bans left behind](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-nauru-semi-equipment) (2026-10-18): China's largest semiconductor equipment maker, NAURA (北方华创), posted 2024 revenue of ≈ US$4
- [Inside Huawei's Kunpeng (鲲鹏) bet: an ARM server CPU built to keep China's data centers running without x86](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-kunpeng-arm-cpu) (2026-10-18): Huawei's Kunpeng 920 (鲲鹏920) is a 64-core ARM server processor that anchors the company's 
- [Ex-SenseTime chip unit Sunrise banks ~US$420M as inference GPUs take the spotlight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-sunrise-inference-gpu-funding) (2026-10-18): Sunrise (曦望), the inference-GPU company carved out of SenseTime in late 2024, has closed a
- [Backed by Alibaba and SenseTime, Excelland clears Hong Kong listing hearing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-excelland-service-robot-ipo) (2026-10-18): Excelland Robotics (优地机器人), China's third-largest commercial service-robot maker by 2025 r
- [China's welding-robot leader CRP refiles for Hong Kong IPO on rising sales, red ink](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-crp-welding-robot-ipo) (2026-10-18): Chengdu CRP Robot Technology (卡诺普), ranked China's top welding-robot maker by revenue in 2
- [A Chinese heavy-equipment plant runs with 200 robots and almost no lights on](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-sany-changsha-lighthouse-factory) (2026-10-18): SANY's Changsha Plant 18 (三一重工长沙18号工厂) became a World Economic Forum "Lighthouse Factory" 
- [Inside JD's "Asia No.1" warehouse, 10,000 robots sort a parcel in a blink](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-jd-asia-one-smart-warehouse) (2026-10-18): JD.com's Asia No.1 (亚洲一号) network turns logistics into a machine — one Kunshan park alone 
- [Wuhan handed its streets to driverless taxis — and a quiet commute war began](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-apollo-go-wuhan-robotaxi) (2026-10-18): Baidu's Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) now runs fully driverless rides across Wuhan, serving more than h
- [A Shanghai lab open-sourced a 30-billion-parameter video model — and it reads Chinese prompts natively](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-stepfun-step-video) (2026-10-18): StepFun (阶跃星辰) released Step-Video-T2V, a 30B-parameter bilingual text-to-video model unde
- [Two Tongji grads built an avatar app where one person can 'speak' 30 languages — and turned it into a $500M company](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-heygen-avatar) (2026-10-18): HeyGen, founded by Chinese entrepreneurs Joshua Xu and Wayne Liang, sells photo-real digit
- [The open-source video model you can run on one RTX 4090 — China's first, and it is small on purpose](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-cogvideox-zhipu) (2026-10-18): Zhipu AI (智谱AI) open-sourced CogVideoX, a video model deliberately sized so a single consu
- [The editor behind a billion TikTok clips just became an AI studio with 85 built-in tools](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-capcut-jianying-ai) (2026-10-18): ByteDance's CapCut — called JianYing (剪映) in China — says it has passed 660 million users 
- [Winter-jujube robots enter China's orchards — can they pick gently enough?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-winter-jujube-picking-robot) (2026-10-17): A Shenzhen–Harbin Institute team has put AI harvesting robots into winter-jujube greenhous
- [Tencent's Miaosi: one prompt from ad idea to shippable creative](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tencent-miaosi-ai-ad-creative) (2026-10-17): Built on Tencent's Hunyuan large model (大模型), Miaosi generates ad images, swaps product ba
- [Tencent's iGrow: the greenhouse that grows tomatoes while the farmer sleeps](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tencent-igrow-ai-greenhouse) (2026-10-17): Tencent's iGrow system uses sensors, a greenhouse simulator, and reinforcement learning to
- [Tencent's GameGen-O: can AI generate an entire open-world game from text?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tencent-gamegen-o-open-world-game-genera) (2026-10-17): Tencent and university researchers released GameGen-O, an open-source model that generates
- [Shanghai's Shaonao: can a non-invasive brain cap rebuild a stroke patient's hand?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-shaonao-noninvasive-bci-stroke-rehab) (2026-10-17): Shanghai Shaonao Sensing Technology (韶脑传感) earned Shanghai's first non-invasive brain-comp
- [SceneRay's Neurestora: can a dual-target brain implant beat opioid addiction?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-scenery-neurestora-addiction-dbs) (2026-10-17): Suzhou-based SceneRay (景昱医疗) won Chinese market approval for Neurestora®, the world's firs
- [Shanghai streets get a robot-dog patrol squad — drones ride along](https://neuroai.site/a/na-quadruped-patrol-robot-dog) (2026-10-17): Six Unitree quadruped robot dogs paired with drones began autonomous inspection in Shangha
- [Generative AI rules: what China's interim measures ask of model builders](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-generative-ai-interim-measures) (2026-10-17): China's Interim Measures for Generative AI Services set the baseline for offering text, im
- [Deep synthesis rules: who answers for AI-cloned faces and voices?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-deep-synthesis-rules) (2026-10-17): China's Deep Synthesis Management Provisions govern services that generate or edit faces, 
- [AI medical device review: why China locks the algorithm before approval](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-medical-device-guidelines) (2026-10-17): China's AI Medical Device Registration Review Guidelines set out how developers must prove
- [Zhou Jian's UBTECH: the humanoid (人形机器人) company that rang its own IPO bell](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-jian-ubtech) (2026-10-17): How Zhou Jian built UBTECH from toy robots into the first humanoid-robot maker listed on t
- [Peng Zhihui (Zhiyuanjun): the "wild Iron Man" turning humanoids (人形机器人) into products](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-peng-zhihui-agibot) (2026-10-17): From Huawei's top-tier "Genius Youth" hire to co-founding AgiBot, Peng Zhihui shows how a 
- [Dai Wenyuan and 4Paradigm: can decision AI survive the large model (大模型) turn?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-dai-wenyuan-4paradigm) (2026-10-17): Dai Wenyuan built 4Paradigm into China's largest decision-making AI platform and took it p
- [China's NEO becomes the first approved invasive brain implant — what changes for paralyzed patients?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuracle-neo-implantable-bci-approval) (2026-10-17): China's NMPA approved Neuracle's NEO, an implantable brain-computer interface (脑机接口) hand-
- [Three minutes, one second, zero humans: inside MYbank's AI microloan engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-mybank-310-ai-microloans) (2026-10-17): MYbank, an Ant Group affiliate, runs a fully automated "310" lending model that issues col
- [Alibaba's Qwen3-Omni hears, sees and speaks — fully open](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-omni) (2026-10-17): Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3-Omni, a native end-to-end omni-modal model that takes text, ima
- [Meituan open-sources LongCat, a 560B large model built for agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-meituan-longcat) (2026-10-17): Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-Flash-Chat, a 560-billion-parameter Mixture-of-E
- [Kuaishou's Kling 2.0 turns text prompts into studio-grade video](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kuaishou-kling-2) (2026-10-17): Kuaishou upgraded its Kling AI video foundation model to 2.0, adding a multimodal editing 
- [Tencent's HunyuanVideo brings 13B-parameter video generation to open source](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuanvideo) (2026-10-17): Tencent open-sourced HunyuanVideo, a 13-billion-parameter video foundation model that riva
- [Type a sentence, get a UI: China's Jishi AI turns prompts into editable designs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jishi-ai-prompt-to-ui-design) (2026-10-17): Jishi Design's 即时AI (Jishi AI) lets users generate fully editable UI layouts from plain-la

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