# 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 (53 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (139 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (149 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (144 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (137 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (139 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (118 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (102 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (100 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (101 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (106 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Robots Have Rolled Off the Line, but Still Cannot Find Your Front Door](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brett-adcock-32-1104) (2026-11-04): In a factory workshop, a humanoid robot is sent to an automobile production line to sort p
- [The Company Runs Fast, yet Its Founder Keeps Talking About the Brakes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-dario-amodei-31-1104) (2026-11-04): A company that builds large models has, on one side, taken half-year revenue into the tens
- [Robots Are Cheap Enough to Buy, but Still Cannot Do the Housework](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wangxingxing-30-1104) (2026-11-04): A humanoid robot that can tumble and do backflips appeared only in short videos from trade
- [An Electrode Thread Pierces the Dura, but the Factory Is Still on Paper](https://neuroai.site/a/na-musk-neuralink-29-1104) (2026-11-04): Putting a coin-sized chip into the brain and letting someone with severe paralysis move a 
- [The Chat Box You Open Every Day, and Who Might Move In](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tencent-agent-28-1104) (2026-11-04): Eyes open in the morning, reach for the phone, tap open that green chat box: reply to mess
- [Stephen Chow's Old Films, and a Lawyer's Letter from Hollywood](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bytedance-hollywood-27-1104) (2026-11-04): A still from an old film, a classic scene decades old, can now be re-enacted by anyone who
- [A Model That Writes Code, and a World Where It Can Rain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepmind-two-26-1104) (2026-11-04): In one week in October, the same lab put out two quite different things. One was a frontie
- [A Model That Clicks the Mouse for You, and the Eyes Beside It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-openai-governance-25-1104) (2026-11-04): Hand a computer a screenshot of a web page, and it opens the browser, finds the form, fill
- [The Prospectus Is Open: Where Did the Money Actually Go?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-anthropic-s1-24-1104) (2026-11-04): As autumn was drawing to a close, an artificial intelligence company that builds large mod
- [Robots and Chips Rang the Listing Bell Together](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-ipo-23-1104) (2026-11-04): This summer and autumn, several Chinese companies that build hard things put their names u
- [The Rocket Company Wants to Buy the People Who Write Code](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-ma-22-1104) (2026-11-04): Put two things together that seem to have nothing to do with each other: a company that ha
- [While the Models Still Compete on Being Smart, Money Has Turned to the Ones That Get Things Done](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-pragmatic-21-1104) (2026-11-04): A couple of years ago, when people talked about artificial intelligence at dinner, the que
- [Drive Overseas, and the Car Speaks the Local Language](https://neuroai.site/a/na-car-cockpit-20-1104) (2026-11-04): Take a Chinese car to the other side of the world and the trouble is often not the engine,
- [Who Hit Fast-Forward on the Evaluator's Half Day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-digital-worker-19-1104) (2026-11-04): In a meeting room, bid documents are stacked half as tall as a person on the table, and fi
- [The Market Is Too Noisy, but the Glasses Still Know Who Is Speaking](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-glasses-18-1104) (2026-11-04): At a market abroad, the stallholder names a price and you do not understand, so you pull o
- [A Stack of Homework, and a Machine That Never Rests](https://neuroai.site/a/na-iflytek-eduhealth-17-1104) (2026-11-04): In an office at dusk, a stack of exercise books sits on the corner of the desk, and a red 
- [A Robot Tidies Up the Whole Room on Its Own](https://neuroai.site/a/na-embodied-longtask-16-1104) (2026-11-04): Say "tidy up" to a messy living room and the robot sets itself in motion: it recognizes th
- [Musk Turned a Car Production Line Over to Robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-optimus-15-1104) (2026-11-04): Tear out a car production line and free up the factory space to build robots—Musk actually
- [The Moment Robots Rolled Into BMW's Plant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-figure03-14-1104) (2026-11-04): On the factory floor, robots roll off the line one after another, with cumulative output r
- [Unitree Goes Public, and Humanoid Robots Start Doing the Math](https://neuroai.site/a/na-unitree-ipo-13-1104) (2026-11-04): How much does it cost to rent a humanoid robot for a day? According to industry reports, l
- [Images Used to Take Forever; Now a Few Steps](https://neuroai.site/a/na-open-models-12-1104) (2026-11-04): Not long ago, getting a decent image out of AI often meant repeated lottery draws and pati
- [The AI Video in Your Feed, Quietly Tagged](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-labeling-11-1104) (2026-11-04): That strikingly lifelike short video you scrolled past recently may not star a real person
- [Hollywood and ByteDance, Why at the Same Table](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-copyright-10-1104) (2026-11-04): On one hand, a company sues an artificial intelligence firm; on the other, it sits down an
- [The Sequel Swapped the Hero's Face](https://neuroai.site/a/na-video-consistency-09-1104) (2026-11-04): You open a short drama made with artificial intelligence. In the first episode, the heroin
- [A Model That Can Read an Entire Annual Report in One Go Now Has a Memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-claude4-08-1104) (2026-11-04): Imagine asking an AI to read an entire company annual report, then quizzing it on details 
- [A Homegrown Chinese AI Model Now Lives Inside the iPhone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen-apple-07-1104) (2026-11-04): From now on, when you speak a sentence of Chinese to your iPhone, the model picking up the
- [It Leads on Benchmarks, but Costs Less](https://neuroai.site/a/na-gemini4-carbon-06-1104) (2026-11-04): The usual assumption is that powerful and expensive go together: whoever scores higher on 
- [The Model That Operates Your Computer Just Got Cheaper](https://neuroai.site/a/na-gpt61-terra-05-1104) (2026-11-04): Picture this: you casually hand your computer a screenshot of a web page, and it opens the
- [Who Really Owns the Data Inside Your Head?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-ethics-04-1104) (2026-11-04): If a company could read your thoughts, should it? And who would own what it reads? This is
- [Brain Interfaces Without the Knife—Do They Stand a Chance?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-noninvasive-03-1104) (2026-11-04): When people think of brain-computer interfaces, many picture open-skull surgery and implan
- [The Paralyzed Hand That Moved Again](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-approved-02-1104) (2026-11-04): A patient with quadriplegia caused by a spinal cord injury once could not even dream of li
- [Can Brain-Computer Interfaces Become a Factory?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuralink-01-1104) (2026-11-04): A young man with quadriplegia, after having a brain-computer interface device implanted, s
- [At under US$16,000, China's Unitree G1 puts a humanoid in every lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-g1-global-dev) (2026-11-04): Unitree's G1 turned the humanoid from a six-figure showcase into a sub-US$16,000 developer
- [China's Walker S2 humanoid swaps its own battery in 3 minutes — and never stops working](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s2-autoswap) (2026-11-04): UBTECH's Walker S2 solves the robot-shift problem with a hot-swappable dual-battery system
- [Neolix has put 10,000 driverless delivery vans on the road — and just raised US$600M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-autonomous-delivery) (2026-11-04): Neolix, the Beijing robovan maker, claims the world's largest L4 autonomous-delivery fleet
- [From rehab beds to humanoids: Fourier's GR-2 bets that caregiving is the real market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-gr2-healthcare-bridge) (2026-11-04): Fourier Intelligence, built on rehabilitation robotics, is steering its GR-2 humanoid and 
- [China coded its AI safety baseline into national standards — training data, models, and oversight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-baseline-standard) (2026-11-04): A 2023 draft guidance for generative-AI safety became an adopted national standard in 2025
- [China has passed zero unified AI laws — and the flagship bill is still just a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-law-draft-stage) (2026-11-04): Despite years on the legislative calendar, China's comprehensive Artificial Intelligence L
- [China mandates dual labels on AI-made content: visible marks and invisible watermarks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-11-04): A four-agency rule now forces Chinese AI tools to tag their own output with both on-screen
- [Wang Haifeng built the stack under Baidu's search box — and China's first open deep-learning platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-haifeng-baidu) (2026-11-04): How Wang Haifeng (王海峰), Baidu's CTO, turned language research into PaddlePaddle (飞桨) and t
- [Wang Changhu bet on text-to-video at PixVerse — and reached 100 million users before most rivals shipped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-changhu-pixverse) (2026-11-04): How a former ByteDance visual-technology chief turned a Douyin-era labeling playbook into 
- [Chen Tianshi bet on a chip built only for neural networks — and shipped it in a phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianshi-cambricon) (2026-11-04): How Chen Tianshi (陈天石) co-founded Cambricon (寒武纪) with his brother and pushed the 'deep le
- [355B params, MIT license: how Zhipu's GLM-4.5 bundles reasoning, code, and agents in one model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm45-open-agent) (2026-11-04): Zhipu's GLM-4.5 is an open-weight MoE that tries to fuse reasoning, coding, and agentic to
- [Eight sizes, one license: how Alibaba's Qwen3 turned open weights into a deployment ladder](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-open-family) (2026-11-04): Alibaba's Qwen3 family ships in eight open-weight configurations — from a 0.6B model for a
- [1 trillion parameters, 32B active: how Moonshot's Kimi K2 made frontier scale downloadable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k2-open-trillion) (2026-11-04): Moonshot's Kimi K2 is an open-weight trillion-parameter MoE that activates just 32B tokens
- [1,800 environments, 85,000 instructions: how DeepSeek-V3.2 taught models to think while using tools](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v32-agent-tools) (2026-11-04): DeepSeek-V3.2 is the lab's first model to fold chain-of-thought reasoning directly into to
- [Tencent's record US$11 billion capex backs a Yuanbao-and-Hunyuan AI push](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-yuanbao-hunyuan-agentic) (2026-11-04): Tencent is turning its Yuanbao app into an AI flagship and opening up the Hunyuan model fa
- [Meituan's LongCat models and 780,000 drone deliveries redraw the retail-AI line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meituan-longcat-drone) (2026-11-04): Meituan is pairing open-source LongCat large models with a physical delivery network — 70 
- [Alibaba's US$53 billion AI-cloud plan makes Qwen the centerpiece](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-380bn-ai-cloud) (2026-11-04): Alibaba is committing ¥380 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure over three years while p
- [SMIC clears a profit line on N+2 as advanced-node capacity nears 40k wafers a month](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-n-plus-2) (2026-11-04): China's flagship foundry posted a record US$3.0B quarter and, by one sell-side estimate, w
- [Huawei's Ascend split: 910C ships now, 950 scales, 960/970 wait](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-ascend-layers) (2026-11-04): Huawei has moved the Ascend 950 supernode from roadmap to launch while the 910C stays its 
- [Eoptolink's sales surge 178% as 800G and 1.6T modules feed the AI buildout](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eoptolink-ai-optical) (2026-11-04): The Suzhou maker of optical transceivers posted nine-month revenue of ¥69.5B (≈ US$9.7B) a
- [Cambricon books ¥3.7B profit as inventory bet balloons to ¥11.7B](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-profit-turn) (2026-11-04): China's leading domestic AI accelerator designer swung to a nine-month net profit of ¥3.7B
- [Hong Kong gets its first LiDAR stock as RoboSense raises US$126M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-robosense-hk-ipo) (2026-11-04): Shenzhen's RoboSense, a supplier of LiDAR (激光雷达) and perception software, debuted on the H
- [Dobot's US$87M Hong Kong listing makes the collaborative robot arm a public asset](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-dobot-hk-ipo) (2026-11-04): Shenzhen's Dobot became the first Chinese collaborative-robot maker to list in Hong Kong, 
- [Axera lists in Hong Kong as China's first edge-AI chip stock, valued near US$1.5 billion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-axera-hk-ipo) (2026-11-04): Axera (爱芯元智), an on-device AI inference-chip designer, passed its HKEX hearing in January 
- [256 channels, 10 microns: how flexible surface electrodes redo the brain-computer math](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-flexible-electrode-dense-recording) (2026-11-04): China's NeuroXess (脑虎科技) is betting that dense, soft, cortex-surface electrode arrays — no
- [From 730 seizures a month to zero: China's first homegrown epilepsy brain implant, and the regulator's last step](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-epilepsy-responsive-neurostimulati) (2026-11-04): GenLight Neurotech's (佳量脑科学) Epilcure™ is China's first domestically developed closed-loop
- [Asia's first seizure-stopping implant: inside China's Epilcure epilepsy neurostimulator](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-epilcure-epilepsy-rns) (2026-11-04): Jialiang Medical's (佳量医疗) Epilcure is a closed-loop, implantable brain-computer interface 
- [43% smaller, sense-capable: China's new brain pacemaker and the closed-loop gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-closed-loop-dbs-parkinson) (2026-11-04): PINS Medical's (品驰医疗) G108R 'super brain pacemaker' can record brain signals while it stim
- [Two workers, 3,000 mu of cotton — and a model now spread across 2 million mu in Xinjiang](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-smart-cotton-farm) (2026-11-04): XAG's unmanned 'super cotton field' in Yuli County proved two people can run 3,000 mu, and
- [iFlytek's 'Hear the Voice of AI' gave China's deaf users 200 million free transcription minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-iflytek-deaf-ai-captions) (2026-11-04): Seven years in, iFlytek's 听见AI的声音 program has turned real-time speech-to-text into a free 
- [Inside China's AI eye-screening rollout: 8,599 service points and a backpack-sized camera](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-airdoc-fundus-screening) (2026-11-04): Airdoc's portable AI fundus camera, cleared by China's NMPA, now runs across 8,599 service
- [VAST scales Tripo 3.0 to 20 billion parameters, chasing 3D assets that drop straight into production](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tripo-open-3d) (2026-11-04): VAST's Tripo (三启万物) pushed its 3D-generation model to 20 billion parameters with Tripo 3.0
- [ByteDance's Seedance goes audible: one model now writes the picture and the soundtrack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedance-audiovisual-video) (2026-11-04): ByteDance's Seedance (字节跳动) moved from silent clips to synchronized audio-visual generatio
- [Mureka V8 tops global music benchmarks as Kunlun bets on 'reason first, then compose](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-mureka-music-reasoning) (2026-11-04): Kunlun Tech's Mureka (昆仑万维) reached the top of Artificial Analysis' music leaderboards wit
- [Kling AI crosses US$240M run-rate as Kuaishou turns a video toy into creative infrastructure](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-video-infrastructure) (2026-11-04): Kuaishou's Kling AI (可灵AI) reached a US$240M annual run-rate by December 2025 on the back 
- [A robot startup claimed RMB 1 billion in orders. Six months later the wages stopped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-wujing-future-collapse) (2026-11-03): A Nanjing quadruped maker claimed big orders in June, stopped paying wages in August, and 
- [China's newest sorting hub can move 10 million parcels a day. The robots were the easy part](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-parcel-hubs-sorting-automation) (2026-11-03): J&T's Jieyang hub can move 10 million parcels a day on cross-belt sorters and six-sided sc
- [A cover-glass plant in Kunshan now builds 100 humanoids a day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-lens-kunshan-humanoid-assembly) (2026-11-03): Lens Technology went from an empty floor to 100 humanoids a day in six weeks, assembling Q
- [AgiBot shipped 9,700 humanoids, then changed how it counts them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-paid-hours-economics) (2026-11-03): AgiBot shipped 9,700 robots in the first half on 2 billion yuan of revenue. Its metric Wor
- [Guangzhou's AI ordinance passed the city legislature. Now it waits for the province](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-guangzhou-ai-ordinance) (2026-11-03): Guangzhou's AI promotion ordinance cleared its third reading but still needs provincial ap
- [China's AI filing register has an exit door. Almost nobody watches it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-algorithm-filing-revocation) (2026-11-03): China's cyberspace regulator publishes filing cancellations beside new filings: 1,112 serv
- [China moved 39 AI documents in a single day. Almost none of them are rules](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-standards-guidance-documents) (2026-11-03): Market regulators approved 60 national guidance documents at once, 39 AI-titled. Most carr
- [Yang You's Colossal-AI passed 41,000 GitHub stars and a Series B: the optimizer king bets on diffusion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-you-colossal-ai) (2026-11-03): The NUS professor who invented LARS and LAMB turned his research into a company; his new G
- [Biren CTO Hong Zhou spent 30 years on GPU architecture. His answer to peak FLOPS is a 1,024-card supernode](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-hong-zhou-biren-gpu) (2026-11-03): Biren CTO Hong Zhou explains why delivered compute, not peak FLOPS, is the metric that mat
- [A robot in 2.5 square metres: Cewu Lu's Noematrix bets on data diversity, not data hours](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-cewu-lu-noematrix) (2026-11-03): The co-founder of Noematrix (穹彻智能) argues robot-training hours matter less than data diver
- [MiniMax says an agent task got 70% cheaper. The 17.9% gross margin is the hard part](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-m31-flash-task-economics) (2026-11-03): MiniMax priced M3.1 Flash at 1 yuan per million input tokens and says agent tasks cost 70%
- [A 9B model that runs 56 layers: SenseTime's looped release and its two parameter counts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-loop-9b-two-parameter-counts) (2026-11-03): SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview stores 32 decoder layers but executes them 56 times, so its card
- [Baidu's OCR read all seven Harry Potter books in one pass. The trick was to stop re-reading](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-ocr-unlimited-pages) (2026-11-03): Baidu's open-weight Unlimited OCR 2 parses 3,600 pages without chunking, by capping how mu

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