# 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 (37 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (99 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (105 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (100 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (97 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (91 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (82 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (72 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (68 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (68 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (72 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Tencent's The Five robot wants to help China's elderly stand up — and stay up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tencent-five-eldercare) (2026-10-25): Tencent Robotics X unveiled The Five (小五), a hybrid wheeled-quadruped elder-care robot in 
- [RoboSense reinvents itself as a robot 'parts and brains' supplier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-robosense-robotics-platform) (2026-10-25): LiDAR maker RoboSense (速腾聚创, 02498.HK) used its January 2025 'Hello Robot' event to reposi
- [Dobot's Hong Kong IPO makes collaborative robots a listed asset class](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-dobot-hkex-ipo) (2026-10-25): Shenzhen's Dobot (越疆) listed on HKEX on 23 December 2024 under 2432.HK, raising about HK$6
- [Deep Robotics' Lynx (山猫) turns stairs, slopes and 80-cm ledges into a walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-deeprobotics-lynx-allterrain) (2026-10-25): Hangzhou's Deep Robotics (云深处) launched the Lynx (山猫), a wheel-leg all-terrain robot in No
- [Two new national standards give AI operating systems a common rulebook](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-os-standards) (2026-10-25): China published two guidance national standards (GB/Z 299-2026 and GB/Z 300-2026) for AI o
- [China floats export curbs on large models and AI agents — but only as a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-export-control-draft) (2026-10-25): A draft revision (open for comment until Nov 15, 2026) would add 23 AI technologies — incl
- [China's State Council wants AI to create jobs, not just cut them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-employment-friendly) (2026-10-25): A State Council General Office opinion issued Oct 16, 2026 lays out 18 tasks to make AI em
- [Yu Kai's Horizon Robotics: from Baidu lab to a HK$5.4 billion Hong Kong debut](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yu-kai-horizon) (2026-10-25): How machine-learning scientist Yu Kai left Baidu, founded Horizon Robotics in 2015, and to
- [Yang Zhilin and Kimi: the open-source trillion-parameter gamble behind Moonshot AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot) (2026-10-25): How a Tsinghua- and CMU-trained researcher built Moonshot AI and its Kimi chatbot, then re
- [Han Bicheng's BrainCo: putting a brain-computer interface in a prosthetic hand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-han-bicheng-brainco) (2026-10-25): How Harvard-trained neuroscientist Han Bicheng built BrainCo (强脑科技) around non-invasive br
- [Xiaomi ships MiMo-V2.6 as a native omnimodal model and open-sources it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-xiaomi-mimo-v26) (2026-10-25): Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 series arrives as natively omnimodal open-weight models, with a phone-m
- [SenseTime's SenseNova V6 banks on native multimodal to top two leaderboards](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-sensetime-sensenova-v6) (2026-10-25): SenseTime's SenseNova V6 leans on a unified understand-and-generate architecture to claim 
- [Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a trillion-parameter model built on 50,000 domestic chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-meituan-longcat-20) (2026-10-25): Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained and 
- [Ant open-sources Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a 124B model that runs finance workflows on 5.1B active params](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ant-ling-financial) (2026-10-25): Ant Group open-sourced Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a finance-tuned large model (大模型), alongside th
- [Zhipu open-sources 1M-context GLM models built to run on Chinese chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-zhipu-glm-open-source) (2026-10-25): Zhipu (智谱) released GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.3-Flash under the MIT license, pairing a 1M-token co
- [SenseTime posts its first profit as generative AI reaches 80% of revenue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-sensetime-2026-turnaround) (2026-10-25): SenseTime (商汤) reported its first-ever IFRS profit for the first half of 2026, with genera
- [Huawei Cloud's agent push reaches 2,600 enterprises on Ascend silicon](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-cloud-ai-stack) (2026-10-25): Huawei Cloud (华为云) is packaging its full-stack AI — Ascend 950 accelerators, ModelArts, an
- [SICC became the world's top silicon-carbide wafer maker — and lost money doing it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sicc-sic) (2026-10-25): SICC (天岳先进), the Shandong producer of silicon-carbide substrates, says it led the global S
- [Iluvatar CoreX bet on general-purpose GPUs and just posted 92% revenue growth](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-iluvatar-corex) (2026-10-25): Iluvatar CoreX (天数智芯), the Shanghai designer behind the 'Tiansai' and 'Zhikai' GPU familie
- [One in three Chinese smart cars runs on Horizon Robotics' chips — can it outlast the price war?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-horizon-robotics) (2026-10-25): Horizon Robotics (地平线) supplies the compute behind roughly a third of China's intelligent-
- [Eoptolink wires Google and Amazon's AI data centers — and just filed for a US$5 billion Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eoptolink) (2026-10-25): Eoptolink (新易盛), the Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, rode the 800G and 1
- [Li Auto's in-house chip unit raises US$229 million and a billion-dollar valuation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-li-auto-machev-chip) (2026-10-25): Li Auto's chip subsidiary Shanghai Mahexin Technology signed a 1.625 billion yuan first-ro
- [Infinigence raises US$324 million to stitch China's fragmented AI compute together](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-infinigence-series-c) (2026-10-25): Shanghai Infinigence (无问芯穹) closed a 2.3 billion yuan Series C in October 2026, lifting cu
- [Biren's HK$4 billion top-up: China's GPU champion keeps coming back for more](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-biren-hk-placement) (2026-10-25): Shanghai Biren Technology placed HK$4.04 billion of new H-shares in October 2026 — its thi
- [A 'happy switch' in the skull: Ruijin Hospital's brain-computer interface for treatment-resistant depression](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-ruijin-depression-bci) (2026-10-25): Shanghai Ruijin Hospital has treated 23 treatment-resistant depression patients with a BCI
- [A blind woman wrote the word 'China': how a 320-channel retinal implant rebuilt vision](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-nuanxinja-visual-bci) (2026-10-25): Hangzhou's Nuanced Chip (暖芯迦) placed a 320-channel retinal brain-computer interface in a f
- [The 4-gram patch that listens to your sleep: Flexem's consumer brain-computer interface](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-flexem-sleep-bci) (2026-10-25): Zhejiang Flexem (柔灵科技) ships a 4-gram non-invasive EEG patch with closed-loop sound that n
- [Beinao-2: China's 1,024-channel invasive brain-computer interface moves from monkey to human](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-beinao2-invasive-bci) (2026-10-25): Beijing's self-developed high-channel invasive BCI has held a stable implant in a macaque 
- [XAG's farm drones are going public — and redrawing China's agriculture map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-ag-drones) (2026-10-25): Guangzhou's XAG filed a Hong Kong IPO on the back of AI-powered agricultural drones, as po
- [Insilico's fully AI-designed lung drug enters Phase III trials](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-insilico-ai-drug) (2026-10-25): A drug whose target and molecular structure were both generated by AI has reached Phase II
- [China's AI digital-human market crosses ¥48B as livestream hosts go virtual](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-digital-human-livestream) (2026-10-25): From JD's ¥14B GMV windfall to a national labeling rule, AI anchors are moving from novelt
- [Tencent open-sources HY-World 2.0, where one prompt builds a 3D game level](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tencent-hunyuan-world-3d) (2026-10-25): On April 16, 2026, Tencent released and open-sourced Hunyuan 3D World Model 2.0 (HY-World 
- [Tencent's Hy Image 3.5 wins 30% more designer blind tests — and aims at work, not play](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tencent-hunyuan-image) (2026-10-25): Tencent Hunyuan released Hy Image 3.5 preview on September 22, a professional text-to-imag
- [ByteDance doubles AI video length to 30 seconds — and adds an edit button](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedance-2-5) (2026-10-25): Seedance 2.5, released July 31, extends single-shot AI video to 30 seconds with synchroniz
- [iFlytek's AI dubbing collapses China's short-drama localization from days to hours](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-iflytek-ai-dubbing) (2026-10-25): iFlytek's Yizhi (讯飞译制) dubbing platform upgraded in July 2026 to emotionally clone voices 
- [A robot-brain startup raises ≈¥3 billion in a month as Lei Jun and Jack Ma team up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xsquare-brain-funding) (2026-10-24): X Square Robot (千寻智能) closed a ¥1 billion round co-led by Lei Jun's Shunwei and Jack Ma's 
- [Ant Group leads its third bet on cable-driven robot maker Astribot in a year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-stardust-astribot-cabledriven) (2026-10-24): Stardust Intelligence (星尘智能), selling robots under the Astribot brand, says it is the firs
- [MicroPort MedBot's Toumai surgical robot finds its growth story abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-micropot-medbot-2025) (2026-10-24): MicroPort MedBot's 2025 revenue reached RMB 551 million, with overseas sales at 73% of the
- [China publishes first humanoid-robot rulebook as 140 firms race to ship](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-standard-system) (2026-10-24): On February 28, 2026 Beijing released the first national standard system for humanoid robo
- [China amends patent examination rules to cover AI and data inventions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-patent-examination) (2026-10-24): China's patent office revised its examination guide effective 1 January 2026, adding a ded
- [China issues rules for AI that mimics human interaction](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-anthropomorphic-interaction) (2026-10-24): Five agencies issued interim measures for anthropomorphic AI interaction services, effecti
- [China issues guidance and standards for autonomous AI agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-agent-governance) (2026-10-24): Three agencies issued May 2026 guidance for AI agents, paired with a seven-part recommende
- [The XPeng robotics veteran now building humanoids that walk like people](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhao-tongyang-engineai) (2026-10-24): Zhao Tongyang left XPeng's robotics unit to found EngineAI, whose SE01 humanoid is markete
- [The Johns Hopkins-trained scientist who steered Mobvoi from voice assistants to an AIGC listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-li-zhifei-mobvoi) (2026-10-24): Li Zhifei founded Mobvoi in 2012, took it public in Hong Kong in 2024, and now runs an AI-
- [A Tsinghua lab spinout is betting humanoid robots earn their keep in logistics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-jianyu-robotera) (2026-10-24): Chen Jianyu turned a Tsinghua research lab into RobotEra, whose full-size humanoids now so
- [Qwen-Image makes multilingual text rendering an open-weight strength](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-image) (2026-10-24): Alibaba's 20B open-weight image model targets the weakest spot of most generators: renderi
- [Can a 10B-active model punch like a 230B? MiniMax M2 makes the case](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-m2) (2026-10-24): MiniMax M2 is an open-weight 230B mixture-of-experts model that activates only 10B paramet
- [Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0 turns a single image into a textured 3D model, openly](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuan3d-2) (2026-10-24): Released in January 2025, Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0 splits 3D asset creation into a shape st
- [DeepSeek V3.2 bets on sparse attention for cheaper long context](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v32) (2026-10-24): Released December 1, 2025, DeepSeek V3.2 keeps the 671B-parameter MoE scale of its line bu
- [China's Robotaxi Export Is an Operating Model, Not a Car](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-robotaxi-operations-export) (2026-10-24): Chinese robotaxi firms are exporting depots, remote-desk ratios and licence playbooks alon
- [Data Can Leave China — Unless a Ministry Has Called It Important](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-data-export-important-data) (2026-10-24): China's data-export rules turn on a designation rather than a volume, and free-trade-zone 
- [Tencent Cloud reaches scaled profitability on the back of AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-cloud-ai-profit) (2026-10-24): Tencent says its cloud unit reached scaled profitability in 2025 as AI demand lifted ads, 
- [Can Kuaishou's Kling carry the company beyond short video?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kuaishou-kling-ai-video) (2026-10-24): Kuaishou says its Kling video-generation model reached a US$240 million annual revenue run
- [ByteDance's Seedance pushes video generation toward director-grade control](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-seedance-video) (2026-10-24): ByteDance's Seed team released Seedance 1.0 in 2025, a 1080p video model that ranked first
- [Alibaba's XuanTie ships a server-grade RISC-V core for AI-era compute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-xuantie-riscv) (2026-10-24): Alibaba's XuanTie C930, a server-grade RISC-V core, began delivery in March 2025 with SPEC
- [VeriSilicon's backlog tops RMB 5B as cloud-AI ASIC orders reshape a design house](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-verisilicon-ip) (2026-10-24): VeriSilicon posted 2025 revenue of RMB 3.15B (US$444M; HK$3.47B), up 36%, with backlog rea
- [Hygon's C86-plus-DCU bet: a self-contained compute stack for Chinese AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-hygon-dcu) (2026-10-24): Hygon posted 2025 H1 revenue of RMB 5.46B (US$769M; HK$6.01B), up 45% YoY, as it pairs x86
- [Hua Hong's Wuxi FAB9 ramps as China's No. 2 foundry leans into 12-inch wafers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huahong-foundry) (2026-10-24): Hua Hong posted 2025 revenue of RMB 17.29B (US$2.44B; HK$19.0B), up 20%, as its Wuxi FAB9 
- [Cambricon posts first annual profit as AI-chip demand surges](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-cambricon-2025) (2026-10-24): Cambricon reported 2025 revenue of 6.5 billion yuan (US$0.9 billion) and its first annual 
- [Black Sesame's Hong Kong IPO: what a 27% first-day drop reveals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-blacksesame-hk-ipo) (2026-10-24): Black Sesame Technologies raised HK$1.04 billion in its August 2024 IPO but closed its fir
- [Alibaba's 380 billion yuan AI infrastructure bet, explained](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-alibaba-ai-capex) (2026-10-24): Alibaba committed at least 380 billion yuan (US$53.5 billion) to AI and cloud infrastructu
- [A Sichuan hospital makes brain–computer interface rehab part of daily care](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-stroke-rehab-clinic) (2026-10-24): Mianyang Central Hospital has run non-invasive brain–computer interface rehab since March 
- [China builds a rulebook for the privacy of brain data](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-neural-data-ethics) (2026-10-24): China's science ministry issued neurotechnology ethics guidelines on 23 July 2025 that fra
- [Seven departments chart China's brain–computer interface industrial roadmap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-national-policy) (2026-10-24): Seven Chinese ministries issued a 2025 BCI industry plan targeting 2–3 global leaders and 
- [Hubei sets the first government-guided prices for brain–computer interface care](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-medical-pricing) (2026-10-24): Hubei priced three brain–computer interface (脑机接口) procedures on 31 March 2025, with invas
- [China's traffic lights are starting to follow the road, not the clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-traffic-signal-control) (2026-10-24): Pilots in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hefei let AI adjust signal timing in real time, 
- [The chatbot that reads the statute book: AI enters China's legal-aid services](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-public-legal-aid) (2026-10-24): Cities like Jingmen and Wuhan have added AI legal assistants to public service lines, cutt
- [The inspector that never blinks: AI visual checks move from demo to the line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-industrial-quality-inspection) (2026-10-24): On Chinese factory lines, AI vision systems now flag defects at up to 99.9% accuracy and h
- [Alibaba's Wan2.1 opens video generation to anyone with a consumer GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-wan-video) (2026-10-24): Alibaba's open-source Wan2.1 puts capable text-to-video and image-to-video generation on c
- [Seedream 3.0 and the quiet war over text inside generated images](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedream-image) (2026-10-24): ByteDance's Seedream 3.0 leans on readable Chinese-and-English text inside images to set i
- [Hyper3D's Rodin turns a photo into a 3D model in seconds — but who cleans it up?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-rodin-3d) (2026-10-24): Deemos' Hyper3D Rodin generates textured 3D models from a photo or prompt in seconds, thou
- [Mureka's bet: AI music you can own, license, and resell](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-mureka-ai-music) (2026-10-24): Kunlun Wanwei's Mureka platform tries to turn generated music into ownable, licensable, an
- [Xiaomi's CyberOne V2 is quietly working real shifts inside its own EV plant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xiaomi-cyberone-v2) (2026-10-23): Xiaomi's second-generation humanoid (人形机器人) has spent months on a Beijing EV line, reachin
- [Roborock's vacuum grew an arm — and started tidying your socks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-roborock-saros-z70) (2026-10-23): The Saros Z70 is the first mass-produced robot vacuum with a folding five-axis arm (机械臂), 
- [Dust costs solar farms money — Chinese firms are sending robots up the panels](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-pv-cleaning-robots) (2026-10-23): From desert plants to factory rooftops, a wave of Chinese PV cleaning robots (光伏清洗机器人) is 
- [China's construction sites are slowly handing the dangerous jobs to robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-construction-robots-china) (2026-10-23): Bright Dream Robotics (博智林), a Country Garden unit, has fielded 1,700+ construction robots
- [China's first national standard for government large models sets a security floor](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-government-llm-standard) (2026-10-23): GB/T 48324—2026, the country's first recommended national standard for government-affairs 
- [China's AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 pushes risk control into the full stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-governance-framework-3) (2026-10-23): Released at the 2026 National Cyber Security Publicity Week, the AI Safety Governance Fram
- [China's new mandatory standards draw a hard line between driver assist and self-driving](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-adas-autonomous-driving-safety-st) (2026-10-23): Two mandatory national safety standards — GB 47955—2026 for combined driving assistance an
- [Zhu Songchun: the vision scientist who returned to build a child-minded AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhu-songchun-bigai) (2026-10-23): Peking University's SongChun Zhu left UCLA to lead BIGAI and build "TongTong" (通通), a valu

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