# 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 (32 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (37 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (36 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (27 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (27 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (28 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (18 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (19 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (17 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (18 articles)

## Recent articles

- [The Robots That Ride Elevators for a Living: YunJi's Hotel Machines Have Served 500 Million Times](https://neuroai.site/a/na-yunji-hotel-robots-scale) (2026-10-02): YunJi Technology, China's largest hotel robot (酒店机器人) operator, listed on the Hong Kong St
- [A Chinese humanoid just walked into Airbus's factory — and that is the real milestone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ubtech-walker-s2-airbus) (2026-10-02): In January 2026, Airbus ordered UBTech's (优必选) Walker S2 humanoid for aircraft manufacturi
- [Before a Chinese AI model goes public, it has to file a six-part dossier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-generative-ai-filing-system) (2026-10-02): China runs a two-track gate for generative AI (生成式人工智能): a large-model filing (大模型备案) for 
- [China is writing the rulebook for what AI models are allowed to learn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-training-data-security-standar) (2026-10-02): Two national standards taking effect on 1 November 2025 — GB/T 45652-2025 and GB/T 45674-2
- [The 32-year-old who bet China's AI future on "remembering more](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot) (2026-10-02): Yang Zhilin (杨植麟), founder and CEO of Moonshot AI (月之暗面) and creator of Kimi, went from a 
- [The Tsinghua engineer who spent 20 years teaching paralyzed hands to listen to the brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-hong-bo-neo-bci) (2026-10-02): Hong Bo (洪波), a Tsinghua University professor, led the NEO brain-computer interface (脑机接口)
- [Through a Vein, Not the Skull: How China's "Third Kind" of BCI Helped a Paralyzed Man Use His Arm Again](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nankai-vein-delivered-bci-stroke) (2026-10-02): Nankai University's team delivered a brain-computer interface to a stroke patient's motor 
- [MiniMax-Text-01 reads 4 million tokens at once — by rewriting the transformer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-text-01-long-context) (2026-10-02): MiniMax (稀宇科技) open-sourced MiniMax-Text-01 in early 2025: a 456-billion-parameter mixture
- [A Century-Old Brain Argument, Settled by a Marmoset: Chinese-Led Team Maps the Cortex's Two Poles](https://neuroai.site/a/na-marmoset-brain-atlas-dual-gradient) (2026-10-02): A China-led team published the first single-cell, whole-brain atlas of the marmoset in Sci
- [One Humanoid Every 30 Minutes: China's First 10,000-a-Year Humanoid Line Starts Running](https://neuroai.site/a/na-leju-foshan-10000-humanoid-line) (2026-10-02): A joint line built by Dongfang Precision and Leju Robotics in Foshan has begun rolling ful
- [Kimi K2 — a trillion-parameter open model trained to use tools, not just chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kimi-k2-agentic-open) (2026-10-02): Moonshot AI (月之暗面) released Kimi K2's open weights in July 2025: a 1-trillion-parameter mi
- [Hygon's DCU — the "CUDA-like" domestic accelerator behind China's non-Nvidia AI stacks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hygon-dcu-deepsuan3) (2026-10-02): Hygon Information (海光信息) pairs an x86-compatible CPU with a GPGPU accelerator, the DCU, th
- [Tencent's Hunyuan-A13B — an open-weight reasoning model with a 256K context and a licence that bans EU use](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-a13b-open-weights) (2026-10-02): Tencent released the weights of Hunyuan-A13B, an 80-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts m
- [Baidu just threw its flagship ERNIE 4.5 models fully open — why now?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-ernie45-open) (2026-10-02): On June 30, 2025, Baidu open-sourced the full ERNIE 4.5 (文心4.5) family — 10 models under A
- [Alibaba's quiet bet — turn Quark into China's AI front door](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-quark-ai-superapp) (2026-10-02): Alibaba repositioned its Quark (夸克) app from a browser-tool into an AI-native "all-in-one 
- [SiCarrier: the Shenzhen state-backed chip-equipment startup seeking a $2.8 billion debut](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sicarrier-equipment) (2026-10-02): Born from a Huawei-linked lab and owned by Shenzhen's government, SiCarrier unveiled more 
- [Horizon Robotics just won Hong Kong's biggest tech IPO — on three years of losses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-horizon-hk-ipo) (2026-10-02): The Beijing autonomous-driving chip maker priced its Hong Kong debut at HK$3.99 and raised
- [Alibaba is betting US$52 billion on AI infrastructure — more than its last decade combined](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-alibaba-380b-capex) (2026-10-02): In February 2025 Alibaba committed at least ¥380 billion (≈ US$52.4B) to cloud and AI hard
- [A Ward, a Price Code, a Bill: Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Becoming a Hospital Service in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-wards-hospital-service) (2026-10-02): Top Chinese hospitals are opening dedicated brain-computer interface (脑机接口) wards and clin
- [From 10 minutes to 3: AI imaging arrives in a rural Chinese county hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shukun-county-hospital-ai) (2026-10-02): At Nanpi County People's Hospital in Hebei, AI from Beijing-based Shukun Technology report
- [Can a large model (大模型) take miners out of the danger zone?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shandong-energy-pangu-mine) (2026-10-02): Huawei and Shandong Energy deployed the Pangu Mining Model (盘古矿山大模型) across 70+ coal mines
- [Can an AI weather model forecast typhoons better than a supercomputer?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-pangu-weather-forecast) (2026-10-02): Huawei's Pangu Weather (盘古气象大模型), published in Nature in 2023, matched or beat traditional
- [Seedream 4.0 edged out Nano Banana — ByteDance's $0.03-per-image play for the global picture](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedream-4-image) (2026-10-02): ByteDance's Seedream 4.0 became the first Chinese image model to top Artificial Analysis's
- [ReelShort is about to cross $1 billion — and China's microdrama playbook finally pays for itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-reelshort-billion-microdrama) (2026-10-02): ReelShort, the vertical microdrama (短剧) app built by a studio backed by Beijing's COL Grou
- [Hailuo 02 out-ranked Veo 3 — can MiniMax's budget video model keep the crown?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-hailuo-02-video-cost) (2026-10-02): MiniMax's Hailuo 02 shocked the AI video world in mid-2025 by ranking second on the Artifi
- [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

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