# 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.

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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.
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## Topics

- [China AI Decoded](https://neuroai.site/c/decode): Explained · Evidence · Context (27 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (79 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (85 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (80 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (77 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (72 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (67 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (57 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (55 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (53 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (57 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Zhang Yalin's Enflame: the AMD veterans building China's AI training chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-zhang-yalin-enflame) (2026-10-20): Fudan engineer Zhang Yalin co-founded Enflame in 2018 with ex-AMD colleague Zhao Lidong; t
- [Giving the Blind a Language the Visual Cortex Can Read: China's Visual BCI Bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-xinsheng-vision-cortical-prosthesis) (2026-10-20): Xinsheng Vision raised a near-100-million-yuan (≈ US$14m / HK$110m) seed round for an inva
- [Xiaomi open-sources its embodied-intelligence models and signals a robotics push](https://neuroai.site/a/na-xiaomi-open-source-embodied-models) (2026-10-20): Xiaomi open-sourced two embodied-intelligence foundation models in July 2026 and reported 
- [Can a 600-billion-parameter model keep pace with the trillion-parameter giants?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-step-5-preview-flagship-moe) (2026-10-20): StepFun's Step 5 Preview pairs a 600B sparse model with a one-million-token window and ope
- [Industrial AI agent maker SmartMore files for Hong Kong listing at US$1.23 billion value](https://neuroai.site/a/na-smartmore-hkex-ipo-filing) (2026-10-20): SmartMore filed a Hong Kong IPO prospectus on March 16, 2026, disclosing US$153 million 20
- [A cluster of Chinese surgical robots just cleared the regulator in 2026](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ropa6-orthopedic-surgery-robot-nmpa) (2026-10-20): Three Chinese surgical-robot platforms won NMPA clearances in early 2026 — a whole-orthope
- [The building where robots rehearse elderly care](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qingdao-care-robot-training) (2026-10-20): Qingdao built China's first public training ground for care robots (康养机器人), where 45 firms
- [China's power-grid warehouses are putting robots on the night shift](https://neuroai.site/a/na-power-grid-robots-warehouses-substations) (2026-10-20): From Tianjin to Yunnan, State Grid and China Southern Power Grid are deploying digital cle
- [China's largest chip-equipment maker shows what self-reliance costs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-naura-chip-equipment-self-reliance) (2026-10-20): NAURA's 2025 revenue reached about ¥39.4 billion, up 31%, but profit slipped as the Beijin
- [Inside the farm where a pig's cough becomes a data point](https://neuroai.site/a/na-muyuan-ai-pig-farming) (2026-10-20): Muyuan and Alibaba Cloud run a pig-farming large model (大模型) across 1,173 farms on 3.3 mil
- [MiniMax M2 bets that a compact coding model beats a giant on cost](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-m2-compact-coding-moe) (2026-10-20): MiniMax M2 is a 230B sparse model that activates only 10B per token, released under MIT fo
- [Meitu's AI pivot: can a beauty app become a paid design studio?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meitu-ai-image-design) (2026-10-20): Meitu's image-and-design products now drive 80 percent of revenue, with paid subscribers a
- [Three Chinese tech firms fuse light and silicon to chase a cheaper AI compute stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meikeshensi-biren-stepfun-photonic-compu) (2026-10-20): MakeSens, Biren Technology and StepFun signed a strategic alliance in Beijing to build a p
- [The homework AI that grades, explains — and sometimes misreads](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jiuzhang-ai-tutor-grading) (2026-10-20): TAL's Jiuzhang large model (大模型) powers learning devices used in millions of homes; we loo
- [AI compute cluster builder Jiliu files Hong Kong IPO after US$73 million 2025 revenue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jiliu-ai-compute-cluster-ipo) (2026-10-20): Jiliu filed a Hong Kong IPO prospectus on April 29, 2026, revealing US$73 million 2025 rev
- [iFlytek's SoundViewAI: can one Chinese video become 100 language versions?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-iflytek-soundview-ai-video-dubbing) (2026-10-20): iFlytek's SoundViewAI turns a single Chinese clip into dubbed, subtitled versions across m
- [Tencent's Hunyuan 3D engine: can a text prompt print a game-ready asset?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-3d-creation-engine) (2026-10-20): Tencent's Hunyuan 3D engine turns a sentence, photo, or sketch into a usable 3D model in m
- [China's assisted-driving chip supplier crosses ten million shipments](https://neuroai.site/a/na-horizon-journey6-ten-million) (2026-10-20): Horizon Robotics' Journey family passed ten million units shipped by August 2025, with its
- [Bo Hong's NEO: the minimally invasive brain implant moving from a Tsinghua lab to clinics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hong-bo-neo-brain-implant) (2026-10-20): Tsinghua neuroscientist Bo Hong spent two decades building NEO, a coin-sized implant that 
- [China's robot-data drought gets a 100,000-hour open-source refill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-guanglun-egosuite-robot-data-dataset) (2026-10-20): At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Beijing's Guanglun released EgoSuite-Open100K — 100,00
- [Guangdong Puts AI to Work Across Every Industry](https://neuroai.site/a/na-guangdong-all-industry-ai-plan) (2026-10-20): Guangdong's new application plan pushes artificial intelligence from showcase demos into f
- [No Surgery, Just a Map: How a Beijing Firm Targets the Brain Without Opening It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-galaxy-pbfs-noninvasive-neuromodulation) (2026-10-20): Galaxy Brain Science (银河脑科学) divides each person's brain into 213 functional zones and sti
- [DeepSeek V4 Preview makes a million-token context the default, not the premium](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-v4-preview-million-context) (2026-10-20): DeepSeek V4 Preview ships a 1.6T Pro model and a leaner Flash variant with a one-million-t
- [China Is Issuing Certificates for Data. Here's What They Actually Prove](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-data-property-registry) (2026-10-20): A national register now certifies who holds, uses and sells a dataset. It is a compliance 
- [The Compute Voucher: How Chinese Provinces Subsidise AI Demand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-compute-voucher) (2026-10-20): Provincial rebates cover 20–30% of a company's compute bill, but only on approved supplier
- [China's Draft Rulebook for Medical AI, Explained](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-medical-ai-draft-rulebook) (2026-10-20): A September 2026 draft of China's AI medical-device review guidelines would extend the rul
- [China's fruit-picking robots are finally working next to human crews](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-harvest-robots-from-lab-to-field) (2026-10-20): In 2026 field trials across Shanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang, apple, tomato and jujube robots pi
- [China's homegrown chip-design software is closing its longest gaps](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-eda-toolchain-gaps) (2026-10-20): Empyrean's 2025 filings show its design tools now cover most analog and digital steps, wit
- [China's advanced-packaging upstart is turning chiplets into its main business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-chiplet-advanced-packaging-sjsemi) (2026-10-20): SJ Semiconductor listed in April 2026 with chiplet integration already its top segment at 
- [China's AI content labeling rules: what changed when the 'digital ID' became mandatory?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-10-20): China's AI-generated content labeling rules took effect on 1 September 2025, requiring bot
- [Chen Jianyu's Robot Era: the Tsinghua lab building humanoids that go to work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chen-jianyu-robot-era) (2026-10-20): Tsinghua assistant professor Chen Jianyu founded Robot Era in 2023 to build humanoids and 
- [ByteDance's Seed 2.1 targets production coding, not demo chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bytedance-seed-2-1-coding-agent) (2026-10-20): ByteDance's Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo focus on coding agents and long-horizon tasks with a 25
- [A Thin Film on the Brain's Outer Wall: How Beijing's "Beinao-1" Trials a Half-Invasive Implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beijing-neurowei-beinao-one-semi-invasiv) (2026-10-20): NeuroWei's Beinao-1 (北脑一号) places a 128-channel film electrode on the brain's outer wall i
- [Beijing's Plan to Build an AI Innovation Highland](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beijing-ai-innovation-highland) (2026-10-20): Beijing's 2026 action plan targets its artificial-intelligence core industry passing 1 tri
- [Building the Operating Rooms First: How Chinese Hospitals Prepare for Scalable Brain Implants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-surgery-platforms-hospitals) (2026-10-20): Before brain–computer interfaces (脑机接口) can scale, someone has to build the rooms and ward
- [Shenzhen rope-driven robot maker closes US$141 million round at US$2.1 billion value](https://neuroai.site/a/na-astribot-rope-robot-funding-round) (2026-10-20): StarDust AI closed a US$141 million round led by a Shenzhen state-backed fund, lifting its
- [01.AI and CP Group launch a farming joint venture run by AI agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-01ai-cp-wanfeng-ai-agriculture) (2026-10-20): 01.AI and agribusiness giant Charoen Pokphand formed Wanfeng Intelligent, a profit-sharing
- [China's underwater robots are quietly mapping the seafloor — and landing energy contracts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-underwater-robots-china) (2026-10-19): From Shenzhen's QYSEA (鳍源科技) to Tianjin's Deepinfar (深之蓝), Chinese underwater ROVs and AUV
- [The company that gave self-driving cars their 'eyes' is now giving them to robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-robosense-robotics-vision) (2026-10-19): RoboSense (速腾聚创), the Shenzhen LiDAR maker that listed in Hong Kong as the world's top-val
- [An appliance giant paid €3.7B for a German robot firm — now it's building its own](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-midea-kuka-robotics) (2026-10-19): Midea (美的) bought German robot-maker KUKA in 2017 for about €3.7B and took it private in 2
- [Chinese robot vacuums quietly took over the world — and most buyers have no idea](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-home-robots-go-global) (2026-10-19): Ecovacs (科沃斯) and Roborock (石头科技) turned a once-quirky gadget into a global category, with
- [China's new data security rule puts AI training data in the crosshairs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-network-data-security-reg) (2026-10-19): The Network Data Security Management Regulations (网络数据安全管理条例), effective January 1, 2025, 
- [China just banned facial recognition as your only way in](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-face-recognition-rules) (2026-10-19): Beijing's new Measures for the Security Management of Facial Recognition Technology (人脸识别技
- [China just put data on the corporate balance sheet — and AI is the quiet winner](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-asset-accounting) (2026-10-19): The Ministry of Finance's Interim Provisions on Accounting Treatment for Enterprise Data R
- [The "token factory" founder — Yuan Jinhui and the unglamorous middle layer of AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yuan-jinhui-siliconflow) (2026-10-19): After his first startup was acquired, Yuan Jinhui rebuilt as SiliconFlow, a neutral infere
- [The only Chinese Turing laureate — how Yao Qizhi bet on talent over trophies](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yao-qizhi-turing) (2026-10-19): Yao Qizhi won computing's top prize in 2000, then quit Princeton to teach undergraduates i
- [The outsider who built Alibaba's cloud — Wang Jian's bet on computing as a utility](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-jian-apsara) (2026-10-19): A psychology PhD with no data-center background persuaded Alibaba to build its own cloud o
- [Zhipu's GLM-4.6 makes open-weight coding agents run on domestic chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm46-coding-agent) (2026-10-19): Zhipu's GLM-4.6 open-weight model extends context to 200K tokens and pairs coding ability 
- [Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 takes AI video to 30 seconds and 10-bit HDR](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kuaishou-kling40-video-model) (2026-10-19): Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 (可灵 4.0), launched Oct 15 2026, extends native generation to 30 secon
- [Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 deploys 100 sub-agents on one task — the agent-swarm bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k25-agent-swarm) (2026-10-19): Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 (released Jan 27 2026) pairs native multimodal understanding with 
- [Tencent's Hunyuan Hy3 topped OpenRouter in a week — a quiet bet on useful AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuan-hy3-agent-moe) (2026-10-19): Tencent's open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 (混元 Hy3) reached the top of OpenRouter's global usage ch
- [Why China Gives Away Its Near-Best Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-why-china-open-weights) (2026-10-19): Chinese labs release near-frontier weights under permissive licences on purpose — buying d
- [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 Misled](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 Can Actually Be Shown](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-distillation-question) (2026-10-19): Distillation allegations are unproven and mostly a distraction. China's real edge is post-
- [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. Most of the 7 Trillion Yuan Goes Elsewhere](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
- [Tencent's AI Agent Security Gateway puts one lock on every model, tool, and API call](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-agent-security-gateway) (2026-10-19): Tencent Cloud has shipped an AI Agent Security Gateway that funnels every large-model call
- [China Telecom's Xing4.0 runs a 29-billion-parameter AI agent on a single gaming GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-china-telecom-xingchen) (2026-10-19): China Telecom has open-sourced Xing4.0-29B-A4B, a lightweight "agent" large model (大模型) tr
- [Alibaba Cloud rebuilds its stack so AI agents can plan, act, and remember](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-agentic-cloud) (2026-10-19): At its 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba Cloud laid out an "Agentic Cloud" strategy — AgentC
- [China's photoresist gap: why 95% of advanced chip 'ink' still comes from Japan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-photoresist-materials-gap) (2026-10-19): Photoresist is the light-sensitive chemical that prints every circuit onto a wafer. China 

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