# 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 (40 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (45 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (44 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (35 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (35 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (34 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (24 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (25 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (23 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (24 articles)

## Recent articles

- [A Chinese surgical robot (手术机器人) performed a cross-border operation at 20 ms latency](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-toumai-telesurgery) (2026-10-04): MicroPort MedBot's Toumai (图迈) surgical robot (手术机器人) completed the first intra-EU remote 
- [Meituan's delivery drones cleared 780,000 orders — with Dubai and Hong Kong live](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-meituan-drone) (2026-10-04): Meituan's drone delivery (无人机配送) network passed 780,000 orders across six cities by end-20
- [The world's first warehouse-robot IPO launched in Hong Kong, not Silicon Valley](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-geekplus-ipo) (2026-10-04): Geek+ (极智嘉) became the first publicly listed autonomous mobile robot (AMR, 自主移动机器人) wareho
- [Singapore let a Chinese robot dog (机器狗) into its power tunnels — and saved 480 worker-hours a year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-deeprobotics-powerdog) (2026-10-04): DEEP Robotics' X30 quadruped is now inspecting Singapore's underground cable network, a sm
- [China's data-center rules cap power at 1.25 and send AI west](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-center-green-energy) (2026-10-04): Beijing's 2024 Special Action Plan for Green and Low-Carbon Data Centers sets hard power-e
- [China cleared 154 AI medical devices — and 80% carry the strictest approval stamp](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-medical-device-approvals) (2026-10-04): Behind China's fast-growing AI healthcare market sits a hard regulatory gate: the National
- [China's "AI + Education" action plan puts AI in every classroom by 2030](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-education-action-plan) (2026-10-04): A five-ministry 2026 action plan makes AI a required thread from primary school to univers
- [He left UCLA for Beijing to build an AI that says 'no': inside Zhu Songchun's (朱松纯) general-intelligence bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhu-songchun-tongtong) (2026-10-04): Zhu Songchun (朱松纯), a top computer-vision scientist who spent 28 years in the US, returned
- [From Microsoft Bing to 250 startups: how Lu Qi (陆奇) became China's AI founder-whisperer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lu-qi-miracleplus) (2026-10-04): Lu Qi (陆奇) ran search at Microsoft and Baidu, then built MiraclePlus (奇绩创坛), one of China'
- [How a Shanda founder turned a gaming fortune into a US$1 billion brain-science mission](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianqiao-brain) (2026-10-04): Chen Tianqiao (陈天桥), who built China's largest online-game company, walked away from the i
- [Xiaomi's open MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open-weight chart — at 13 cents a task](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-xiaomi-mimo-v26-open) (2026-10-04): Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a full-modal model it says leads open weights on Artifi
- [StepFun's open-weight "Flash" model is built for agents, not chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-stepfun-step37-flash-agent) (2026-10-04): StepFun open-sourced Step 3.7 Flash, a 196B MoE model tuned for tool-calling and long agen
- [iFlytek puts a 1-million-token context on a 4B edge model — and it runs offline](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-x25-edge) (2026-10-04): iFlytek open-sourced Spark X2.5-4B and 1.7B edge models with a native 1M-token context, be
- [China built its own yardstick for AI models — and it grades differently than the West](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-china-own-llm-yardstick) (2026-10-04): SuperCLUE, an independent Chinese benchmark, now scores models on hallucination control an
- [NetEase's AI isn't one chatbot — it's 40 million game companions and a music factory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-netease-ai) (2026-10-04): NetEase has woven AI into games, music production, office earbuds and industrial robots th
- [Meituan's 1.6-trillion-parameter LongCat runs on Chinese chips — and is free to download](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meituan-longcat) (2026-10-04): Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained and served entire
- [CloudWalk's CongRong beat Google on a global multimodal test — with one unified model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-cloudwalk-congrong) (2026-10-04): CloudWalk's CongRong large model topped the OpenCompass global multimodal leaderboard in 2
- [The light pipes feeding AI: how Chinese optical modules became indispensable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-silicon-photonics-interconnect) (2026-10-04): As AI clusters hit an interconnect wall, China's pluggable optical-module makers — Innolig
- [RISC-V reaches the AI server: China's open-chip answer to ARM](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-riscv-ai-xuantie) (2026-10-04): Alibaba's T-Head XuanTie C930 brings the free, open RISC-V instruction set into server-gra
- [The software chokepoint: how a 2025 EDA curbs episode rattled China's chip design](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-domestic-eda) (2026-10-04): When the US told Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens to halt EDA sales to China in May 2025, it 
- [China's self-driving brains just hit 10 million — and the hard part is next](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-automotive-ai-horizon) (2026-10-04): Horizon Robotics passed 10 million shipped Journey (征程) automotive AI chips by mid-2025, b
- [Mech-Mind's Hong Kong IPO sells the "eyes and brains" of China's robot boom](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-mechmind-ipo) (2026-10-04): Mech-Mind Robotics listed in Hong Kong in September 2026, raising up to HK$2.7 billion by 
- [Ant Group's 12th robot bet is a home companion, not a factory arm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ant-zeroth-robot) (2026-10-04): Ant Group led a roughly RMB 500 million (≈ US$70 million) pre-Series A in Zeroth, a Suzhou
- [China's ¥60 billion AI fund takes a $197 million stake in Kling (可灵)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-fund-kling) (2026-10-04): The National AI Industry Investment Fund (国家人工智能产业投资基金), a RMB 60 billion state vehicle, i
- [China's first brain–computer interface cluster is already home to 52 firms](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-shanghai-cluster-52-firms) (2026-10-04): Shanghai's "Brain-Smart World (脑智天地)" is the country's first dedicated brain–computer inte
- [The mood switch: how Chinese clinics are closing the loop on depression and addiction](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-psychiatric-depression-addiction) (2026-10-04): At Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai and SceneRay in Suzhou, brain–computer interface (脑机接口) and
- [Two standards in a single month: how China built the rulebook for brain–computer implants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-china-first-bci-standards) (2026-10-04): China's drug regulator published the country's first brain–computer interface (脑机接口) medic
- [A $286 million bet on brainwaves: inside China's non-invasive BCI unicorn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-brainco-noninvasive-ipo) (2026-10-04): BrainCo (强脑科技), the Hangzhou neurotechnology company spun out of Harvard, closed a ≈ US$28
- [Yangshan's unmanned quay cleared 8 million boxes — and China is now exporting the blueprint](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-yangshan-smart-port) (2026-10-04): Shanghai's Yangshan Phase IV is the world's largest automated container terminal, running 
- [Huawei's AI weather model beats Europe's gold standard — and does it in 10 seconds](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-pangu-weather-model) (2026-10-04): Huawei's Pangu Weather large model became the first AI system to out-forecast traditional 
- [Baidu's AI sign-language anchor let 27 million deaf viewers watch the Olympics live](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-baidu-sign-language) (2026-10-04): Built on Baidu's digital-human platform, an AI sign-language anchor translated live Olympi
- [After a HK$200M deepfake heist, China forces labels on AI-cloned voices](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-voice-cloning-rules) (2026-10-04): Following high-profile voice-cloning fraud, China's deep-synthesis rules and 2025 labeling
- [Open-source text-to-3D just became good enough for real game pipelines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-text-to-3d-opensource) (2026-10-04): Tencent's Hunyuan3D and startup VAST's Tripo open-weighted 3D generators are letting studi
- [From 380,000 hours to ¥10 billion: digital humans take China's livestreams](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-digital-humans-livestream) (2026-10-04): China's e-commerce platforms are deploying AI digital humans (数字人) as round-the-clock live
- [China made AI-generated content carry a mandatory watermark — what it means globally](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-content-labeling) (2026-10-04): As of September 1, 2025, China requires every AI-generated text, image, audio and video to
- [China's First Long-Term Implant Lets a Limbless Patient Play Games by Thought](https://neuroai.site/a/na-stairmed-longterm-implant) (2026-10-03): Shanghai's StairMed completed China's first long-term invasive BCI implant trial; a four-l
- [Meituan's delivery drones cleared 740,000 orders — then won the first nationwide license](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-meituan-drone-delivery) (2026-10-03): Meituan (美团) runs one of the world's largest drone-delivery networks — 65 routes and 740,0
- [Before the humanoid hype, Fourier was already building robots that help people walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-rehab-exoskeleton) (2026-10-03): Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶) turned rehabilitation robotics into its core business — exoskel
- [Dobot and JAKA: how two Chinese cobot makers turned 80 countries into a market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-china-cobots-global) (2026-10-03): Collaborative robots (协作机器人) from Dobot (越疆) and JAKA (节卡) now ship worldwide — Dobot list
- [100 robots, 1 million tasks: inside AgiBot's embodied-AI data engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-world-dataset) (2026-10-03): AgiBot (智元机器人) open-sourced AgiBot World, a million-trajectory real-robot dataset built by
- [China's New Training-Data Rules Put Copyright and Quality on the Same Checklist](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-training-data-copyright) (2026-10-03): Three national standards effective November 1, 2025 spell out how AI training data must be
- [China's AI-Content Labeling Rule Is Now Live — Here's How Platforms Comply](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-content-labeling) (2026-10-03): Since September 1, 2025, every AI-generated text, image, audio, and video in China must ca
- [China Adds a Comprehensive AI Law to Its 2026 Legislative Agenda](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-law) (2026-10-03): China has folded a comprehensive artificial-intelligence law into its 2026 legislative wor
- [Wang Xiaochuan traded the search wars for a medical-AI moonshot at Baichuan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xiaochuan-baichuan) (2026-10-03): From Sogou's founder to Baichuan's medical-AI bet — how an internet veteran is staking Chi
- [Inside Zhipu's GLM roadmap with chief scientist Tang Jie](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tang-jie-zhipu) (2026-10-03): Tsinghua professor and Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie built the GLM (大模型) line behind China's f
- [Kai-Fu Lee bet big on open models — then rebuilt 01.AI around enterprise AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-kai-fu-lee-01ai) (2026-10-03): How Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI went from open-weight Yi models to a lean enterprise-AI play, and w
- [No Surgery, Just Signals: How China's Non-Invasive BCI Is Reaching Stroke Patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-noninvasive-stroke-rehab) (2026-10-03): BrainCo and Bournatech are putting non-invasive brain–computer interfaces into hospitals f
- [Shanghai's NeuroXess Takes a Different Route to the Brain — and Enters Pivotal Trials](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuroxess-flexible-bci) (2026-10-03): NeuroXess's "Triple-F" flexible BCI began NMPA-registered trials for paralyzed patients; i
- [Your Thoughts Are Now Sensitive Data: China Writes Privacy Rules for Brain Signals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neural-data-privacy) (2026-10-03): As BCI moves from lab to clinic, China's PIPL and a new 2025 neurotech ethics guideline tr
- [Zhipu's GLM-5 Ships 744B Open Weights — Trained Entirely on Huawei Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm5) (2026-10-03): Released 11 February 2026, Zhipu's GLM-5 is a 744-billion-parameter open-weight large mode
- [Alibaba's Qwen3-Max Crosses One Trillion Parameters — but Stays Behind a Paywall](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-max) (2026-10-03): Unveiled at Alibaba's Apsara Conference in September 2025, Qwen3-Max is the company's larg
- [ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 Cuts Token Prices by 10x as Seedance 2.0 Goes Live](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-bytedance-doubao2) (2026-10-03): On 14 February 2026 ByteDance's Volcano Engine launched Doubao-Seed-2.0, with video model 
- [Baidu's ERNIE 5.0 Packs 2.4 Trillion Parameters Into One Native Multimodal Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-ernie5) (2026-10-03): Released 22 January 2026, Baidu's ERNIE 5.0 (文心 5.0) is a 2.4-trillion-parameter native om
- [Xiaomi's MiMo puts AI on the device, not in the cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xiaomi-edge-ai) (2026-10-03): Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo, a 7-billion-parameter reasoning model, and pointed its AI strate
- [Tencent gives Hunyuan away, chasing the cloud, not the chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-hunyuan-strategy) (2026-10-03): Over twelve months Tencent turned Hunyuan from a closed model into one of China's most ope
- [Huawei opens PanGu to developers, wiring industry AI to Ascend](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-pangu-opensource) (2026-10-03): Huawei's PanGu large model, long a closed industry tool, went open-source in 2025 — a stra
- [Moore Threads hits the public market: China's "first full-function GPU" stock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-moore-threads-ipo) (2026-10-03): How a five-year-old Beijing GPU designer became a public company, and what its loss-making
- [CXMT's DDR5 and HBM push: the memory half of China's AI stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-ddr5-hbm) (2026-10-03): How ChangXin Memory turned DDR5 into volume production and began sampling HBM3, and why me
- [Biren's BR100: a Chinese GPGPU that beat the A100 — then hit the wall](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-biren-br100) (2026-10-03): The story of Biren's BR100 and BR104, the TSMC node they were built on, and how US sanctio
- [Huawei's Ascend 920: SMIC's N+3 node fills the Nvidia H20 gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-920-n3) (2026-10-03): Reported details of Huawei's next AI accelerator and the SMIC process node behind it, and 
- [Unitree's US$590M STAR Market IPO Makes a Profitable Humanoid Maker Public](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-unitree-ipo) (2026-10-03): Unitree cleared China's fastest-ever hard-tech IPO review and will list on the STAR Market
- [China's AI-Chip IPO Wave: Moore Threads, Biren and MetaX Hit the Boards](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-chip-ipo-wave) (2026-10-03): Three domestic GPU and accelerator makers — Moore Threads, Biren and MetaX — went from pri
- [AgiBot's US$2.1B Private Round Signals a Humanoid Capital Race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-agibot-round) (2026-10-03): Shanghai humanoid maker AgiBot reached a ~US$2.1B private valuation in 2025 and is widely 
- [On China's farms, the drone now flies itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-dji-agri-drones) (2026-10-03): DJI Agriculture and XAG have turned autonomous crop-spraying drones from a gadget into rou
- [China Mobile's AI assistant passed 100 million monthly users](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-china-mobile-lingxi) (2026-10-03): China Mobile's 灵犀 (Lingxi) assistant crossed 100 million monthly active users by end of 20
- [China's coders picked up AI pair-programmers — and kept them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-coding-ides-china) (2026-10-03): ByteDance's Trae, Baidu's Comate (文心快码) and Alibaba's Tongyi Lingma (通义灵码) have moved from
- [即梦 Jimeng: ByteDance's AI video app puts film production in beginners' hands](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-jimeng-video) (2026-10-03): ByteDance's 即梦 (Jimeng) app turns text and images into short videos, pulling AI video crea
- [HunyuanVideo: Tencent open-sources a 13-billion-parameter video model, and developers actually show up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-hunyuanvideo) (2026-10-03): Tencent released HunyuanVideo as open weights in December 2024, giving researchers a front
- [Seedance and Seedream: inside ByteDance's fast-iterating image and video model family](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-bytedance-seedance) (2026-10-03): ByteDance's Seed team ships generative image and video models on a relentless cadence, and
- [China's AI music race: three homegrown models take on Suno in Mandarin](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-china) (2026-10-03): As Suno made AI songwriting a global talking point, Chinese companies built music large mo
- [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

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