# 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 (57 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (155 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (165 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (160 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (157 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (154 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (129 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (117 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (111 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (112 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (117 articles)

## Recent articles

- [From a CAS lab to Pakistan's Punjab: China's electric self-driving tractor goes global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-wisewit-agri-robots) (2026-11-09): WiseWit, a CAS spin-off, has logged nearly 1 million mu of unmanned farm work with electri
- [Inside Star1: the Tsinghua-born humanoid chasing a US$1.4B valuation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-noetix-star1-humanoid) (2026-11-09): Noetix Robotics, a 2023 Tsinghua spin-off, shipped 200+ STAR1 humanoids in 2025 and closed
- [A Chinese exoskeleton you can buy for US$360 just sold out in 15 seconds](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ctyoung-exoskeleton) (2026-11-09): CTyoung, a Hangzhou exoskeleton maker, sold a RMB 2,599 hip-assist suit in 15 seconds in 2
- [AUBO's 12,000th cobot rolled off the line in 2025 — China's quiet automation champion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-aubo-cobot-global) (2026-11-09): AUBO Robotics, a 2015 Beihang spin-off, shipped its 12,000th collaborative robot of 2025 a
- [China's low-altitude economy: a 300-standard rulebook before the 'air taxis' take off](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-low-altitude-economy) (2026-11-09): Beijing has folded low-altitude economy into its 15th Five-Year Plan and published a stand
- [China puts AI inside government apps on a tight leash — via a draft mandatory standard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-gov-app-ai-mandatory-standard) (2026-11-09): A mandatory national standard for government mobile apps, circulated for comment in June 2
- [China pairs AI with its power grid: a 2027 target for 'compute-power and electricity' synergy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-energy-synergy) (2026-11-09): A September 2025 NDRC–NEA opinion pushes 'AI+' into eight energy sub-sectors and makes com
- [The scientist behind Network In Network is now teaching voice agents to remember](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yan-shuicheng-ai-scientist) (2026-11-09): Shuicheng Yan (颜水成), a Singapore-based AI scientist and multiple-academy fellow, has spent
- [The engineer behind SMIC's 7nm push just joined TIME's AI 100](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liang-mengsong-smic) (2026-11-09): Mong-Song Liang, the low-profile co-CEO who steered Semiconductor Manufacturing Internatio
- [The 1992-born founder steering China's Kua Fu humanoid robot to an IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-leng-xiaokun-leju-robotics) (2026-11-09): Leng Xiaokun (冷晓琨), who founded Leju Robotics (乐聚机器人) at 24, has taken its KUAVO (夸父) huma
- [Why your AI now 'thinks' before it answers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-reasoning-test-time-compute) (2026-11-09): Reasoning models spend extra compute at answer time on a long chain-of-thought. The techni
- [Chinese open-weight models quietly took over Hugging Face](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-open-weight-global-market) (2026-11-09): Qwen and DeepSeek became the most-downloaded open large models on Earth in 2025. Here is w
- [Why new open models stopped bolting cameras onto chatbots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-native-multimodal-fusion) (2026-11-09): A 2024–2025 architectural shift moved multimodal models from a clipped-on vision encoder t
- [How to read a model benchmark claim without being fooled](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-benchmark-claims-guide) (2026-11-09): Every model launch ships a score table. A plain guide to what MMLU, GSM8K, SWE-bench and G
- [Google's Gemini now lives in a pair of Chinese-made glasses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xreal-aura-android-xr-launch) (2026-11-09): XREAL's Aura, built with Google's Android XR and Qualcomm, launched in four countries in O
- [China's 'Token factory' files for Hong Kong IPO after a 34× valuation jump](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-siliconflow-hk-ipo-token-factory) (2026-11-09): SiliconFlow, a neutral multi-chip inference platform, filed for a Hong Kong IPO in June 20
- [Volkswagen's China EVs now run on a Chinese AI chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-horizon-vw-carizon-mass-production) (2026-11-09): Horizon Robotics' Journey chips passed 15 million units and now power Volkswagen's China-b
- [Silicon carbide's new No.1 is a Chinese supplier most readers have never heard of](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sic-substrate-sicc) (2026-11-09): SICC (天岳先进) became the world's largest SiC substrate vendor in 2025, riding the shift from
- [The 'walkie-talkie' behind every AI cluster is now made mostly in one Chinese city — Suzhou](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-optical-modules-innolight) (2026-11-09): Zhongji InnoLight (中际旭创) leads the global optical-module market, and its 800G/1.6T transce
- [China's biggest chip packager is racing TSMC's CoWoS with its own 2.5D platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-jcet-advanced-packaging) (2026-11-09): JCET (长电科技) is scaling its XDFOI 2.5D/3D advanced-packaging platform to serve AI accelerat
- [The world's biggest GaN wafer line is betting AI data centers will ditch silicon](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-gan-power-innoscience) (2026-11-09): Innoscience (英诺赛科), the largest 8-inch GaN-on-silicon producer, is pitching its power chip
- [XPeng's US$1.3 billion R&D year is quietly turning a carmaker into a robot firm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-xpeng-physical-ai-capex) (2026-11-09): XPeng reported RMB 9.49 billion (US$1.36 billion) in 2025 R&D, with about RMB 4.5 billion 
- [Xiaomi's 3nm XRING chip shipped — and the US$6.9 billion bet is just starting](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-xiaomi-xring-rd) (2026-11-09): Xiaomi's self-designed XRING O1 3nm mobile chip entered mass production in May 2025 after 
- [Hong Kong's HK$3 billion AI compute fund is already backing 40 projects](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-hk-ai-subsidy-scheme) (2026-11-09): Cyberport's Artificial Intelligence Subsidy Scheme has approved nearly 40 projects and com
- [A blueberry-sized brain implant takes on depression that pills can't touch](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-motif-neurotech-depression-implant) (2026-11-09): Motif Neurotech's DOT implant received FDA authorization of an investigational device exem
- [An ultrasound brain implant reads the whole organ without a single wire in the tissue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-forest-neurotech-ultrasound-bci) (2026-11-09): Forest Neurotech's Forest 1 uses sound to image and stimulate the entire brain; a £6.5M UK
- [A wearable headband turns brainwaves into speech — no surgery, no implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-cognixion-axon-r-eeg-bci) (2026-11-09): Cognixion's Axon-R reads EEG through the scalp and feeds an AI model trained on your own v
- [A brain probe softer than tissue itself wants to outlast every rigid implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-axoft-soft-electrode-bci) (2026-11-09): Axoft's Fleuron probe is up to 10,000× softer than conventional materials and just cleared
- [China's map-free delivery vans turn a month of setup into a day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-zelostech-map-free-robovan) (2026-11-09): At WAIC 2026, Zelostech said its map-free Level 4 self-driving vans entered mass productio
- [An AI assistant now sits beside 250,000 Chinese village doctors](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xunfei-county-ai-doctor) (2026-11-09): Xunfei Healthcare's Smart Medical Assistant gives China's primary-care clinics decision su
- [Chongqing gives small firms a free AI legal desk that flagged 8,500 risks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-chongqing-beibei-ai-legal) (2026-11-09): A district justice bureau in Chongqing now offers businesses a free AI legal platform that
- [China is building 'data factories' because real training data is running out](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-synthetic-data-training) (2026-11-09): From robot sims to finance, Chinese firms are manufacturing synthetic training data at sca
- [The invisible ID inside AI images that survives a screenshot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-invisible-watermark-tech) (2026-11-09): Watermarks and signed metadata are becoming the machine-readable 'passport' for AI-made co
- [China's AI companions got a billion-dollar IPO and a new rulebook](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-companion-apps) (2026-11-09): MiniMax's Hong Kong debut and a July 2026 regulation redrew the line between helpful AI co
- [Free AI-narrated books are rewriting China's audio market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-audiobook-boom) (2026-11-09): ByteDance's free, ad-supported audiobooks — voiced by AI — overtook the paid leader, then 
- [Farm robots that let one person manage what used to need a crew](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xag-agricultural-drone) (2026-11-08): XAG's agricultural drones and unmanned ground vehicles turn solo farmers into fleet operat
- [The humanoid that swaps its own battery to work the night shift](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s2-byd) (2026-11-08): UBTECH's Walker S2 brings autonomous battery swapping to car factories, but real autonomy 
- [A Chinese surgical robot now operates across borders by remote control](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-toumai-surgical-robot) (2026-11-08): MicroPort's Toumai laparoscopic robot pairs a lower price with CE-certified telesurgery, b
- [The driverless van that quietly took over China's last mile](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-delivery-vehicle) (2026-11-08): Neolix has put more than 10,000 autonomous delivery vehicles on roads across 300-plus citi
- [China's draft AI safety baseline maps the lifecycle before it binds](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-genai-safety-baseline-draft) (2026-11-08): A 2024 TC260 draft national standard sketches security expectations across the generative-
- [China's cross-border data rule: easier flows, same red lines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-cross-border-data-provisions) (2026-11-08): The 2024 Provisions on Cross-Border Data Flows loosen routine transfers while keeping secu
- [China's AI content labeling rule: why a hidden watermark now carries the force of law](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-11-08): Beijing's 2025 labeling measures pair a binding rule with a mandatory national standard, t
- [Yang Zhilin built Kimi on a bet that context length, not chat, would win](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot) (2026-11-08): The Moonshot AI founder turned a long-document obsession into one of China's most recogniz
- [Peng Zhihui left Huawei's genius program to make robots that punch a factory time-clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-peng-zhihui-agibot) (2026-11-08): The AgiBot co-founder turned hobby hardware videos into one of China's fastest-growing hum
- [Hong Bo's coin-sized implant helps paralyzed patients grasp again without entering the brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-hong-bo-tsinghua-bci) (2026-11-08): The Tsinghua professor behind the NEO brain-computer interface chose a less invasive path 
- [Qwen3 put both fast and slow thinking inside one open-weight family](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-open-weights) (2026-11-08): Alibaba's Qwen3 blends a thinking and a non-thinking mode in a single Apache-licensed mode
- [MiniMax-01 read four million tokens by rebuilding attention itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-01-longcontext) (2026-11-08): Shanghai's MiniMax-01 pairs a text model with a multimodal (多模态) one and handles four-mill
- [Kimi K2 made an open trillion-parameter model built for agents, not chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k2-agentic) (2026-11-08): Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is a 1T-parameter open-weight model tuned for coding and tool use, b
- [DeepSeek-R1 turned frontier reasoning into an open-weight download](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-r1-open-reasoning) (2026-11-08): How an MIT-licensed reasoning model (推理模型) from a Chinese lab reshaped who can build with 
- [iFlytek's AI box lets companies run a large model without sending data to the cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-iflytek-spark-enterprise) (2026-11-08): At GITEX 2025, iFlytek unveiled a Spark large-model all-in-one server that runs entirely o
- [Huawei opens the software behind its AI chips, but keeps the silicon for itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-ascend-cloud) (2026-11-08): Huawei pledged to fully open-source the CANN software stack behind its Ascend AI processor
- [Alibaba gives Qwen3 to the world, but keeps its largest model behind a paywall](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-opensource) (2026-11-08): Alibaba open-sourced the Qwen3 family under Apache 2.0, yet reserved its trillion-paramete
- [China put its EDA champion under state control — the software that designs every chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eda-domestic-tools) (2026-11-08): Empyrean, China's largest EDA vendor, became state-controlled in late 2024, just days afte
- [China's homegrown memory maker takes the public stage after a decade of losses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-dram-memory) (2026-11-08): ChangXin Memory, the Hefei DRAM specialist, listed on the STAR Market in 2026 and became o
- [A ten-year-old AI chip lab finally turned a profit — and that is the real story](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-ai-accelerator) (2026-11-08): Cambricon, the CAS spin-off behind China's Siyuan accelerators, posted its first annual pr
- [When you cannot print smaller chips, you stack them — China's packaging bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-advanced-packaging-chiplet) (2026-11-08): Blocked from the latest lithography, Chinese chip firms are leaning on advanced packaging 
- [Galaxy Universal's $300 million round rewrites the humanoid robotics funding ceiling](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-galaxy-universal-funding) (2026-11-08): Beijing Galaxy Universal Robotics closed a funding round above $300 million (about 2.1 bil
- [Biren's Hong Kong debut shows investors will pay for China's chip gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-biren-hkex-ipo) (2026-11-08): Shanghai Biren Technology listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as 6082.HK on January 2, 
- [Alibaba's 380 billion yuan cloud plan is a capacity race, not a product launch](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-alibaba-cloud-capex) (2026-11-08): Alibaba committed at least 380 billion yuan (about $53 billion) over three years to AI and
- [Can a brain-computer interface rebuild a stroke survivor's hand? Inside a Chinese trial](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-stroke-bci-rehab-rct) (2026-11-08): A randomized trial across 17 Chinese hospitals found non-invasive BCI training added a sma
- [China's first invasive BCI human trial: a paralyzed man's thoughts become the controller](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-stairmed-first-invasive-trial) (2026-11-08): Shanghai's StairMed ran China's first pre-registration invasive brain-computer interface t
- [China approved the world's first implanted brain-computer interface as a medical device](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuracle-neo-nmpa-approval) (2026-11-08): Neuracle's NEO-ONE SCI, a hands-assist implant for cervical spinal injury, became the firs
- [Tsinghua's wireless brain implant gave a paralyzed man back his grip — without a single battery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neo-tsinghua-wireless-implant) (2026-11-08): Tsinghua's NEO system, implanted at Beijing's Xuanwu and Tiantan hospitals, let paralyzed 
- [Inside China's hospitals, an AI now flags colon polyps as doctors look](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tencent-miying-medical-imaging) (2026-11-08): Tencent Miying's NMPA-approved colonoscopy AI marks suspected polyps in real time on the e
- [How a Chinese vegetable town turned its greenhouses into data factories](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shouguang-smart-greenhouse) (2026-11-08): In Shouguang, Shandong, robot dogs patrol greenhouses and IoT systems auto-tune climate an
- [How an AI tutor is reaching children in China's remote villages](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-iflytek-rural-ai-tutor) (2026-11-08): iFlytek's AI learning machines and speaking classrooms are being placed in rural schools a
- [China issued a digital ID to virtual humans, then set them to work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-virtual-human-broadcast) (2026-11-08): Beijing began registering AI digital humans as identifiable entities, while brands found t
- [China's short-drama apps stopped translating and started filming abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-shortdrama-global) (2026-11-08): A handful of Chinese microdrama apps now dominate the global paid-short-video market by sh
- [Kuaishou's Kling turned video generation into an overseas business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-global-video) (2026-11-08): How a Chinese video-generation model built a paying global user base faster than most apps
- [China now makes every AI-made video and image carry a visible — and invisible — label](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-content-labeling) (2026-11-08): A September 2025 rule requires Chinese platforms to tag AI-made text, audio, images, and v
- [Unitree's $4,900 R1 puts a humanoid robot in the AliExpress cart](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-r1-global) (2026-11-07): Unitree (宇树科技) opened global pre-orders for its R1 humanoid on AliExpress in April 2026, s
- [ULS Robotics puts a 60% lighter load on China's factory floors](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-uls-industrial-exoskeleton) (2026-11-07): Shanghai's ULS Robotics (傲鲨智能) builds powered industrial exoskeletons that cut perceived l
- [China's empty-cab harvest: driverless combines and robot dogs pick up the slack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-autonomous-harvest-china) (2026-11-07): At the 2026 autumn harvest, Chinese farms ran driverless rice combines that unload into au
- [AgiBot's Expedition A2 goes global — via Singapore's Changi and a Munich car partner](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-a2-global) (2026-11-07): AgiBot (智元机器人) is pushing its Expedition A2 humanoid beyond China: a Singtel partnership a
- [Beijing and Shanghai just opened the data-export gate to the whole city](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-export-negative-list-citywid) (2026-11-07): China's data-export negative list (负面清单), once confined to free-trade zones, has been exte
- [China's AI security governance framework 2.0: a map, not a mandate](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-security-governance-framework) (2026-11-07): The 人工智能安全治理框架 2.0版, released in September 2025, updates China's non-binding AI risk map. 
- [China puts driver-assist safety to a binding test — but the rule is still a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-adas-safety-standard-draft) (2026-11-07): The mandatory national standard 智能网联汽车 组合驾驶辅助系统安全要求 is out for comment. Until it passes, c
- [The UCLA-trained statistician who built Yitu (依图科技) into an AI dragon — and a homegrown chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhu-long-yitu) (2026-11-07): Zhu Long (朱珑), a statistician trained at UCLA and MIT who worked with Yann LeCun at NYU, c
- [The Intel veteran who took UISEE (驭势科技) from a Beijing garage to a HK$8.5 billion market cap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wu-gansha-uisee) (2026-11-07): Wu Gansha (吴甘沙), former Intel China research chief, founded UISEE (驭势科技) in 2016 to automa
- [The ResNeXt and DiT author who is on leave from NYU to build LeCun's world-model lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-saining-xie-ami) (2026-11-07): Saining Xie (谢赛宁), the Chinese computer scientist behind ResNeXt and the Diffusion Transfo

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