# 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>.
Institutional, press, reprint and translation enquiries: https://neuroai.site/press

## Topics

- [China AI Decoded](https://neuroai.site/c/decode): Explained · Evidence · Context (45 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (119 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (129 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (124 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (121 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (115 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (100 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (90 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (83 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (86 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (90 articles)

## Recent articles

- [China now holds 19 approved laparoscopic surgical robots — and domestic brands are taking the lead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-surgical-robot-19-certs) (2026-10-31): As of August 2026 China had 19 NMPA certificates for laparoscopic surgical robots; domesti
- [Rino.ai just raised $100M to put 5,000 delivery robots on China's streets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-rino-delivery-c-round) (2026-10-31): L4 autonomous-delivery firm Rino.ai (白犀牛) closed a $100M C-round, with 5,000+ vehicles alr
- [China's humanoid robot output is set to top 100,000 this year — but most aren't on factory floors yet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-production-100k) (2026-10-31): MIIT projects 2026 humanoid robot output above 100,000 units, yet most shipped units still
- [China's "building doctors" are scanning walls and patrolling sites with robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-building-inspection-robot) (2026-10-31): China Railway Construction's wall-scan robot and a patrol robot dog show how robotics is m
- [China's foundational internet law gets an AI clause — but it's still just a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-internet-info-smart-service-draft) (2026-10-31): China's Internet Information Service Measures revision draft adds a 'smart information ser
- [Guiyang bets on a 'Token City' where AI output is metered, priced and traded](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-guiyang-token-city) (2026-10-31): Guiyang-Gui'an's 2026-2028 plan turns cheap compute into tradable AI tokens (词元), with 'to
- [Seven national standards turn China's AI agents from islands into a network](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-agent-interconnect-standard) (2026-10-31): China published GB/Z 185-2026, its first national standard system for agent interconnectio
- [The 'most-published ACL author' who bet China's large-model future on finance](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-ming-langboat) (2026-10-31): Zhou Ming, ex-Microsoft Research Asia NLP lead and ACL president, founded Langboat in 2021
- [Alibaba's co-founder is staking US$53B on becoming the 'operating system' of AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wu-yongming-alibaba) (2026-10-31): Wu Yongming, Alibaba's co-founder and CEO, is betting over US$53B on AI cloud and open-sou
- [From DJI to 80 startups: the HKUST professor seeding China's robotics surge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-li-zexiang-xbotpark) (2026-10-31): Li Zexiang, the HKUST professor behind DJI and XbotPark, has incubated 80+ robotics startu
- [Alibaba's Qwen2.5-VL Turns Documents and Screens into Actions, Not Just Answers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen25-vl-vision) (2026-10-31): Alibaba open-sourced Qwen2.5-VL in 3B, 7B and 72B sizes that reads hour-long video, turns 
- [Kimi k1.5 Matched OpenAI's o1 on Reasoning—Without Search Trees or Value Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k15-release) (2026-10-31): Moonshot's Kimi k1.5, released in January 2025, reaches OpenAI o1-level reasoning using a 
- [DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Brings 338 Languages and 128K Context to Open-Source Coding](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-coder-v2) (2026-10-31): DeepSeek open-sourced Coder-V2 in June 2024: a 236B-parameter MoE model that codes in 338 
- [Baidu's Qianfan 4.0 Bets the Enterprise AI Future on Agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-qianfan-40) (2026-10-31): At its August 2025 conference, Baidu upgraded Qianfan to 4.0—an agent-centric enterprise p
- [ModelWare and China Telecom pair edge-side AI with a national network](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-modelbest-chinatelecom-partnership) (2026-10-31): On Oct 12, 2026, edge-side model specialist ModelWare and China Telecom's AI arm signed a 
- [Huawei bets the Ascend ecosystem on partners, not just chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-ascend-ecosystem) (2026-10-31): At its June 2026 Guangzhou partner conference, Huawei reshaped Ascend from a chip story in
- [ByteDance's Seed2.1 turns Doubao into a working agent, not a chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-seed2-1-launch) (2026-10-31): Released June 23, 2026, ByteDance's Seed2.1 model family targets real productivity — codin
- [The Kirin 9030 teardown shows SMIC's DUV-only 5nm-class node is real — but not true 5nm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-n3-teardown) (2026-10-31): TechInsights and SemiAnalysis tore down the Kirin 9030 and found SMIC's N+3 is a dense 7nm
- [China's chip-equipment self-reliance hits 35%, but the weak spot moved to lithography](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-equipment-localization-35) (2026-10-31): China's semiconductor equipment localization reached 35% in early 2026, yet lithography an
- [China's CXMT starts HBM3E output at low yields, betting scale beats perfection](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-hbm3e-ramp) (2026-10-31): Reuters reports CXMT will begin limited HBM3E production despite 20-30% yields, a strategi
- [Huawei's Ascend 950PR reaches data centers as Huawei bets on a yearly AI-chip cadence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-950) (2026-10-31): Huawei's Ascend 950PR began shipping in 2026 on a one-generation-per-year plan, using supe
- [JiuZhang Yunji Files Hong Kong IPO as 'NeoCloud' Revenue Jumps Tenfold in Two Years](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-jiuzhang-yunji-hk-ipo) (2026-10-31): JiuZhang Yunji (DataCanvas, 九章云极) filed a HKEX prospectus on 29 Sep 2026, with revenue up 
- [China Merchants Group Lines Up a RMB 5B AI Fund Focused on Compute, Embodied AI and Transport](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-cmg-shenzhen-ai-fund) (2026-10-31): China Merchants Group (招商局集团) and Shenzhen's Guangming district will launch a ≤RMB 5B AI f
- [Beijing's Approaching.AI Raises RMB 1.3B in Series B as Inference Demand Surges](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-approaching-ai-series-b) (2026-10-31): Approaching.AI (趋境科技) closed a Series B above RMB 1.3B (≈US$183M) on 26 Oct 2026, taking i
- [China launches its first 128-channel fully implanted brain–computer interface trial](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-tiantan-128ch-implant-trial) (2026-10-31): Beijing Tiantan Hospital has opened the LEAP trial of a 128-channel implanted brain–comput
- [China's 2026 brain–computer interface standards push: from vocabulary to AI datasets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-standards-2026-guide) (2026-10-31): A 2026 draft guide sets China's plan for 40+ BCI standards by 2028 and 80+ by 2030; a new 
- [Can a brain–computer interface predict a seizure 7.5 seconds early?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-epilepsy-seizure-prediction) (2026-10-31): A Tsinghua team reports an embodied-intelligence brain–computer interface (脑机接口) forecasti
- [Shanghai opens a sham-controlled brain–computer interface trial for treatment-resistant depression](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-depression-neuromodulation-trial) (2026-10-31): A three-hospital trial (NCT07783906) tests closed-loop brain stimulation vs sham for treat
- [Inside China's AI pathology network that has screened 13 million women for cervical cancer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-landing-ai-pathology) (2026-10-31): Wuhan Lan Ding's AI digital pathology platform runs cervical-cancer screening across 31 pr
- [China's AI speaking coach teams up with the IELTS body to fix the country's weakest skill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-hiecho-oral-english) (2026-10-31): NetEase Youdao's Hi Echo virtual-human tutor, built on the Ziyue education large model, ha
- [Seventy AI 'clerks' joined a Shenzhen district — and redrew China's government service map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-12345-ai-hotline) (2026-10-31): From Shenzhen to Beijing, Chinese cities are wiring large models into the 12345 hotline, c
- [Zhipu's open-source GLM-Image bets that text is the hard part of AI art](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-zhipu-glm-image) (2026-10-31): Zhipu AI open-sourced GLM-Image, a 16B hybrid model that renders accurate Chinese and Engl
- [Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6, a multimodal model that writes video, images, and audio](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-xiaomi-mimo-v26) (2026-10-31): Xiaomi's MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6 (1T-param MoE) generates video, images, and audio from tex
- [Kling 4.0 turns a single prompt into a 30-second film](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-4-video) (2026-10-31): Kuaishou's Kling 4.0, live since Oct 15, extends native AI video to 30 seconds with cinema
- [China's digital-human livestream boom hits a regulator's deadline](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-digital-human-livestream) (2026-10-31): As five platforms passed ¥45.1 billion in AI digital-human livestream GMV in 618, a July r
- [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 New Brain Implant Is for Ears, Not Limbs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-hearing-brainstem-implant) (2026-10-30): China approved an auditory brainstem implant for children aged two to six who cannot use a
- [China Trained a Flagship Model on Domestic Chips. The 4× Is a Repair, Not a Lead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-domestic-compute-training) (2026-10-30): iFlytek's Spark X2.6 was trained end to end on Chinese accelerators. Its 4.5-to-1.2-month 
- [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

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