# 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 (31 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (87 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (93 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (88 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (85 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (80 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (73 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (63 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (60 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (59 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (63 articles)

## Recent articles

- [XPeng is building humanoid robots the way it builds cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xpeng-iron-line) (2026-10-22): XPeng launched a car-grade automated line for its IRON humanoid, betting that vehicle manu
- [Can a humanoid robot keep a battery plant running around the clock?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galbot-catl-battery) (2026-10-22): Galbot's heavy-lift robot has worked continuous 24-hour shifts inside CATL's battery lines
- [Why Beijing's robot games are starting to look like a job fair](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-beijing-games-work) (2026-10-22): At the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, the real contest was not sprinting but folding lau
- [Can a humanoid robot survive a real factory shift?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-factory-shift) (2026-10-22): Eight humanoid robots ran a six-day, unscripted shift inside a live tablet factory in Nanc
- [China's "vehicle-road-cloud" bet: 20 cities rewire the street for self-driving](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-vehicle-road-cloud-pilot) (2026-10-22): A 2024–2026 pilot has 20 Chinese cities build roadside sensors and cloud systems so autono
- [China's ethics-review rule: build the committee before you build the model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-tech-ethics-review-measures) (2026-10-22): A 2023 trial measure makes Chinese universities, hospitals, and AI firms form an ethics co
- [China's drone law splits the sky into five classes — here is what operators must do](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-drone-flight-regulations) (2026-10-22): China's drone regulation took effect January 1, 2024, sorting unmanned aircraft into five 
- [Can Zhou Xi (周曦) turn face recognition into a profitable AI company?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-xi) (2026-10-22): Zhou Xi (周曦) founded CloudWalk (云从科技) in 2015 and listed on the STAR Market in 2022, betti
- [Can Ma Weiying (马维英) teach machines to do real science?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-ma-weiying) (2026-10-22): Ma Weiying (马维英), a former ByteDance AI Lab head and Microsoft Research Asia veteran, now 
- [Can coding champion Lou Tiancheng (楼天城) make driverless cars mainstream?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lou-tiancheng) (2026-10-22): Lou Tiancheng (楼天城), Pony.ai's co-founder and CTO, turned a competitive-programming record
- [Alibaba's new model listens, watches, and starts working](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen38-omni-flash) (2026-10-22): Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash takes text, image, audio and video together and is built to p
- [Huawei open-sources a model built for its own chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-openpangu-2) (2026-10-22): Huawei has open-sourced openPangu-2.0, a large model family tuned for its Ascend compute a
- [Manus returns with an agent that finishes the job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-manus-2-agent) (2026-10-22): Manus, a Chinese-founded startup, launched Manus 2.0 and a companion app called Cue for bu
- [Baidu's new model does more on a fraction of the training bill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ernie-51) (2026-10-22): Baidu's ERNIE 5.1 keeps flagship-level skill while cutting model size and training cost sh
- [Unitree is shipping thousands of robots abroad without opening a single overseas store](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-unitree-global-sales) (2026-10-22): Unitree sells its humanoids through US resellers, Japanese agencies and Korean e-commerce 
- [iFlytek is betting on Southeast Asia to prove Chinese AI can go global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-iflytek-global-ai) (2026-10-22): iFlytek is pushing speech translation and in-car assistants into Southeast Asia and global
- [From Munich to Kuala Lumpur: how AgiBot is taking China's humanoids abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-agibot-global-expansion) (2026-10-22): AgiBot is opening showrooms abroad, signing European distributors and demoing at the UN — 
- [Can China's homemade lithography finally break ASML's grip?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-duv-equipment-coalition) (2026-10-22): Reuters says a Huawei-linked group plans about five homegrown DUV lithography machines in 
- [Who is putting Chinese camera chips inside the world's cars?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cis-image-sensors-china) (2026-10-22): Yole's 2026 report shows China is now the world's second-largest CMOS image-sensor supplie
- [How China took control of the chips that power electric cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-auto-power-semiconductors) (2026-10-22): Early-2026 data shows Chinese suppliers leading China's car power-module market, with BYD 
- [Can advanced packaging let China skip the EUV bottleneck?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-advanced-packaging-wave) (2026-10-22): Between May and July 2026 Chinese firms unveiled nearly ten advanced-packaging projects wo
- [Transwarp just crossed to Hong Kong — the first A-share firm to use the 18C route](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-transwarp-hk-ipo) (2026-10-22): Transwarp, already Shanghai-listed, raised about HK$687 million in a Hong Kong IPO under C
- [China's "token factory" just raised billions — and filed to list in Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-siliconflow-token-platform) (2026-10-22): SiliconFlow, China's largest independent token supplier, raised about RMB 2.9 billion in 2
- [Beijing killed its Meta sale — now Manus just raised US$500 million](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-manus-agent-funding) (2026-10-22): Manus, the Chinese-built AI agent, closed a US$500 million round at about a US$4 billion v
- [A Beijing lab's stretchable "paper-cut" electrode just reached 1024 brain channels](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-zhiran-1024-channel-bci) (2026-10-22): Beijing Zhiran's implantable brain–computer interface uses a paper-cut-inspired electrode 
- [Inside the Chinese hospitals quietly wiring brain–computer interfaces into stroke rehab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-xiangyu-noninvasive-bci-rehab) (2026-10-22): Xiangyu Medical has put non-invasive brain–computer interface systems in hundreds of hospi
- [Thought-controlled legs — how a Chinese exoskeleton is retraining paralyzed patients to walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-iflytek-bci-exoskeleton) (2026-10-22): iFLYTEK's rehab arm built a non-invasive brain–computer interface exoskeleton that turns t
- [How a Jiangxi development zone is trying to manufacture a brain–computer interface industry from zero](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-ganjiang-bci-hub) (2026-10-22): Ganjiang New Area in Jiangxi published a 52-point plan for a brain–computer interface clus
- [Inside China's vegetable capital, a robot dog now patrols the greenhouses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shouguang-ai-robot-dog) (2026-10-22): Shouguang's Tianquan robot dog patrols greenhouses with an agricultural large model, flagg
- [Every 53 seconds a car rolls out: inside China's AI-run 'lighthouse' EV plant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-gac-aion-lighthouse) (2026-10-22): GAC Aion's Guangzhou plant, the world's first NEV 'lighthouse factory,' uses 600+ robots a
- [Can a fetal heart scan in remote China match a Beijing specialist's eye?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-cardiac-ultrasound-ai) (2026-10-22): Beijing Anzhen's cardiac ultrasound assistant now runs in 1,000+ clinics across 31 provinc
- [Kunlun's SkyReels went open source — and handed developers a ready-made video engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-skyreels-open-video) (2026-10-22): Kunlun open-sourced its SkyReels-V3 video model in January 2026 with reference-to-video an
- [PixVerse's real-time world model turns AI video into something you can talk to](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-pixverse-world-model) (2026-10-22): PixVerse passed 150 million users and closed a US$439M Series C extension in 2026 while la
- [Meitu turned its selfie apps into AI workbenches — and found a paying crowd of creators](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-meitu-creator-economy) (2026-10-22): Meitu's 2026 interim results show over 18.44 million paying subscribers and AI apps at RMB
- [Tencent's free detector says it can spot AI text and images — but the verdict comes with fine print](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-content-detection) (2026-10-22): Tencent's Zhuque (朱雀) detector checks text, images and video for machine-made traces and i
- [Unitree's record IPO puts a US$8.5 billion price tag on humanoid robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-star-ipo) (2026-10-21): Yushu Technology's STAR Market listing priced at 150.80 yuan a share, valuing the quadrupe
- [China's warehouses and fire crews are strapping on powered exoskeletons](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-industrial-exoskeleton-china) (2026-10-21): Powered exoskeletons are moving from labs to Chinese logistics hubs and fire brigades, qui
- [Fourier's GR-3 care humanoid bets that being touchable matters more than being strong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-gr3-carebot) (2026-10-21): Shanghai's Fourier built the GR-3, a 165 cm care-focused humanoid wrapped in soft skin, be
- [How Ecovacs turned household chores into a global home-robotics business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ecovacs-service-robots-global) (2026-10-21): From an OEM vacuum maker in Suzhou to a multi-category home-robotics brand sold in 180 cou
- [Shenzhen's AI stimulus: over RMB 1.1 billion a year in vouchers and grants for compute, data and models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-shenzhen-ai-pioneer-city) (2026-10-21): Shenzhen's "AI Pioneer City" measures hand companies annual vouchers for compute, training
- [China's first large-model standard: 3 parts, one yardstick for what "good" means](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-large-model-national-standard) (2026-10-21): The GB/T 45288 series turns "how capable is this large model" from vendor marketing into a
- [China's algorithm filing rule: a switch to turn off the feed, and a ban on "big-data price gouging](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-algorithm-recommendation-rule) (2026-10-21): The Algorithm Recommendation Management Provisions (互联网信息服务算法推荐管理规定), in force since 1 Mar
- [A paralyzed gamer beat his inventor at Mario: Tao Hailong and China's soft brain-computer interface](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tao-hailong-neuroxess) (2026-10-21): Tao Hailong (陶虎), founder of NeuroXess (脑虎科技), is betting on flexible cortical implants — 
- [He Xiaopeng bets XPeng's future on AI cars, flying cars and humanoid robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-he-xiaopeng-xpeng) (2026-10-21): The UCWeb founder who sold to Alibaba for USD 4.35 billion now runs XPeng as an "AI-define
- [The century's most-cited AI paper was written in Beijing — by Kaiming He](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-he-kaiming-resnet) (2026-10-21): How a Guangzhou-born researcher's 2015 ResNet paper quietly became the scaffolding under m
- [Step 3: a 321B open multimodal model designed to decode cheaply on Chinese chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-step3-open-multimodal) (2026-10-21): StepFun (阶跃星辰) open-sourced Step 3, a 321B MoE that reads images and text and is engineere
- [MiniMax-M1: a 456B reasoning model with a 1-million-token window trained for $534,700](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-m1-hybrid-reasoning) (2026-10-21): Shanghai's MiniMax (稀宇科技) open-sourced M1, a 456B hybrid-attention reasoning model with a 
- [Kimi K2: a 1-trillion-parameter model that put a Chinese lab on top of the open-source leaderboard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k2-open-agent) (2026-10-21): Moonshot AI (月之暗面) open-sourced Kimi K2, a 1T-parameter MoE tuned for coding and agents, a
- [GLM-4.5: Zhipu's agent-native 355B model that ships under a permissive MIT license](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-glm45-agent-native) (2026-10-21): Zhipu AI (智谱), now branded Z.ai, released GLM-4.5, a 355B open-weight MoE built to reason,
- [MiniMax doubles on Hong Kong debut, valued near US$14 billion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-minimax-hong-kong-ipo) (2026-10-21): The Shanghai AI lab behind Hailuo (海螺) video and Talkie listed on HKEX in January 2026, ri
- [Meituan's LongCat goes open-source: a 560B-parameter bet from a food-delivery app](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meituan-longcat-open-source) (2026-10-21): The company behind 30-minute meal delivery has released LongCat (龙猫), an open-weight MoE m
- [Baidu's Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) goes global: Uber, Lyft and 22 cities](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-apollo-go-overseas) (2026-10-21): Baidu is shipping its driverless ride-hailing service to the Middle East and Europe throug
- [YMTC (长江存储) ships 294-layer NAND and licenses its hybrid-bonding patents to Samsung](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ytmc-xtacking-nand) (2026-10-21): China's leading 3D NAND maker turned a homemade architecture into a global patent asset, t
- [Inside SMIC's N+2 line — Huawei's AI chips built at ~30% yield, with EUV off the table](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-nplus2-foundry) (2026-10-21): China's largest foundry is making 7nm-class silicon for Huawei's Ascend with DUV multi-pat
- [The 2025 EDA blackout lasted five weeks — and accelerated China's chip-design software push](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eda-domestic-substitution) (2026-10-21): When the US briefly barred Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens from selling EDA tools to China i
- [CXMT (长鑫存储) races to HBM mass production — three years behind, one AI boom ahead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-dram-hbm) (2026-10-21): China's only large-scale DRAM maker is scaling fast and betting on HBM for AI, but still t
- [Zhipu raises HK$4.3B in Hong Kong — the planet's first large-model (大模型) IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-zhipu-hk-ipo) (2026-10-21): Beijing Zhipu Huazhang (02513.HK) listed on HKEX on 8 January 2026, raising HK$4.3B and be
- [Unitree prices its STAR Market IPO at RMB 150.80 — China's first humanoid (人形机器人) maker goes public](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-unitree-star-ipo) (2026-10-21): Unitree (宇树科技) cleared its STAR Market review in 73 days and set an IPO price of RMB 150.8
- [China's US$8.4B national AI fund (国家人工智能产业投资基金) makes its first robot bet — RMB 2.5B for Galaxy General](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-national-ai-fund-galbot) (2026-10-21): The 600.6-billion-yuan National AI Industry Investment Fund, seeded by the Phase III Big F
- [A Coin-Sized Implant Let a Paralyzed Man Run an E-Commerce Shift — for Four Hours](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-stairmed-implant-work) (2026-10-21): StairMed (阶梯医疗) placed a 256-channel implantable brain-computer interface (脑机接口) in patien
- [A Chinese Startup Built Its Own Brain-Interface Chip — and That Rewrites the Supply-Chain Math](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuramatrix-bci-chip) (2026-10-21): NeuraMatrix (宁矩科技) taped out a home-grown brain-computer interface (脑机接口) ASIC in 2021 and
- [China Tried a Third Route for Brain Implants — Through the Blood Vessels, Not the Skull](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-interventional-bci-nankai) (2026-10-21): Nankai University's Duan Feng (段峰) team ran the first human interventional brain-computer 
- [The Non-Invasive BCI That Skipped the Skull — and Already Ships 100,000 Units](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-brainco-noninvasive-bci) (2026-10-21): BrainCo (强脑科技) bets on non-invasive brain-computer interface (脑机接口): a bionic hand that re
- [70 built, 100 promised: Shanghai's smart nursing homes put a sensor under every mattress](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shanghai-smart-nursing-homes) (2026-10-21): Shanghai's three-year plan to build 100 "smart nursing homes" (智慧养老院) by end-2025 uses mat
- [From 1,320 to 28,000 in a year: the AI study room boom filling China's after-school gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-study-rooms-k12) (2026-10-21): After the 2021 "double reduction" (双减) policy shrank tutoring, AI-equipped study rooms exp
- [One photo, 55 health signals: Airdoc's retinal AI leaves the hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-retinal-screening-primary-care) (2026-10-21): Airdoc's NMPA-cleared retinal-AI, first approved in China in 2020, now flags 55 lesion and
- [Alibaba's 20-billion-parameter Qwen-Image turns in-picture text into its open-source edge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-qwen-image) (2026-10-21): Released in August 2025, Qwen-Image is a 20B open-source image model that renders Chinese 
- [MiniMax's Hailuo video app hit 42 million users before its Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-minimax-hailuo) (2026-10-21): MiniMax listed on the HKEX on Jan 9, 2026; its Hailuo AI (海螺AI) video tool had drawn 42 mi
- [China's 'silicon labor' bet: one firm shipped 100,000 digital humans yet stays in the red](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-digital-human) (2026-10-21): Nanjing Silicon Intelligence (硅基智能) delivered over 100,000 digital-human agents and leads 
- [China now makes every AI video, image and voice clip show a label — yet most platforms still miss it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-content-labeling) (2026-10-21): The AI-generated content labeling rule (人工智能生成合成内容标识办法) took effect Sept 1, 2025, but a 25
- [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

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