# 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 (61 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (168 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (178 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (173 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (170 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (167 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (140 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (128 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (122 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (122 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (128 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Geely Capital backs humanoid maker Robot Era as its order book tops RMB 500M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-robotera-humanoid-orders) (2026-11-11): A Beijing embodied-AI startup's near-RMB 1B raise and half-billion order book show China's
- [Galbot's wheeled humanoids work 7×24 retail shifts while rivals chase bipedal demos](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galbot-g1-retail-deployment) (2026-11-11): Beijing's Galbot put wheeled humanoids on round-the-clock retail and warehouse duty using 
- [Flexiv's force-sensitive arms do what position-controlled robots can't — and car factories are buying](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-flexiv-adaptive-arm) (2026-11-11): Stanford-spinoff Flexiv built "adaptive" arms that feel force like a hand, targeting the c
- [Elephant Robotics builds desktop humanoids and low-cost arms for labs, not factory floors](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-elephant-robotics-desktop) (2026-11-11): Shenzhen's Elephant Robotics skipped the warehouse race and shipped wheeled humanoids and 
- [Like water and power: China's computing-power interconnection plan targets 2028](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-compute-interconnection-2028) (2026-11-11): MIIT's May 2025 Computing-Power Interconnection Action Plan commits to a nationwide standa
- [A gate, not a wall: China's draft rules for automotive data leaving the country](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-automotive-data-export-draft) (2026-11-11): Eight Chinese regulators published a draft guide for automotive data exports in June 2025;
- [A blueprint, not a rulebook: China's AI safety standards map spans seven fronts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-standards-blueprint) (2026-11-11): MIIT's AI Standardization Technical Committee released a 2025 guide laying out a seven-par
- [The 'can we use it?' founder: how Zhou Xi steered CloudWalk from a CAS lab to a STAR Market listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-xi-cloudwalk) (2026-11-11): A profile of Zhou Xi, the scientist-founder who built CloudWalk from a Chinese Academy of 
- [The researcher who refused to pick a side: how Shuicheng Yan moved from NUS labs to Kunlun's AI front line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yan-shuicheng-kunlun) (2026-11-11): A profile of Shuicheng Yan, the computer-vision scientist whose academic work shaped moder
- [The programmer they called 'Master Lou': how Tiancheng Lou helped Pony.ai land on both Nasdaq and Hong Kong as a Robotaxi pioneer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lou-tiancheng-ponyai) (2026-11-11): A profile of Tiancheng Lou, the competitive-programming legend turned chief technology off
- [A CAS lab built a multimodal reasoning model that thinks while it watches](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zidong-taichu-multimodal-reasoning) (2026-11-11): The Zidong Taichu (紫东太初) 4.0 multimodal reasoning model from the Chinese Academy of Scienc
- [China built a public registry of 748 generative-AI services — and a security baseline to enter it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-cac-filing-security-baseline) (2026-11-11): Behind China's generative-AI boom is a working filing (备案) system and a security baseline 
- [A Beijing lab's open embedding models became the quiet default for open-source retrieval](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-bge-open-embedding) (2026-11-11): BAAI's BGE (BAAI General Embedding) family turned a Beijing nonprofit's research project i
- [A Beijing nonprofit, not a tech giant, open-sourced a bilingual large model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baai-aquila-open-llm) (2026-11-11): BAAI's Aquila (悟道·天鹰) line shows how a Chinese research institute built and gave away an o
- [Li Auto's in-car AI drives 3.07 billion km — and a self-made chip heads to production](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-li-auto-vla-driver-model) (2026-11-11): Li Auto rolled its VLA driver model to every AD Max car in 2025 and taped out a self-devel
- [Kuaishou's Kling video model turns US$143M in 2025 — and may soon leave the app behind](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kuaishou-kling-ai-spinoff) (2026-11-11): Kuaishou's in-house video generation model Kling booked roughly US$143M in 2025 revenue an
- [iFlytek's Spark bet pays off: US$3.7B revenue and a model trained only on Chinese chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-iflytek-spark-domestic-compute) (2026-11-11): iFlytek posted 2025 revenue of about US$3.7B and leaned its Spark large model on domestic 
- [China's top chip-design IP house posts ¥3.2 billion but a ¥528 million loss](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-verisilicon-ip-licensing) (2026-11-11): VeriSilicon's 2025 revenue jumped 36% on a flood of AI-related design orders, yet the Shan
- [Piotech jumps to ¥6.5 billion — but 8 of every 10 yuan rides on one tool](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-piotech-pecvd) (2026-11-11): The Shanghai-listed deposition-equipment maker saw its PECVD machines drive nearly 80% of 
- [Longsys turns ¥22.8 billion as its own 5nm controller crosses 140 million units](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-longsys-storage-controller) (2026-11-11): The Shenzhen storage-products group posted record 2025 profit on surging memory prices and
- [ACM Shanghai clears ¥6.8 billion as China's wafer cleaners take global share](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-acm-shanghai-cleaning) (2026-11-11): The Shanghai-listed subsidiary of Nasdaq's ACM Research posted 2025 revenue and profit gai
- [T-Head files for a Hong Kong IPO as Alibaba splits off its chip arm — the raise still blank](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-t-head-hkex-listing) (2026-11-11): Alibaba has filed to spin off its semiconductor unit T-Head (平头哥) for a Hong Kong listing,
- [LimX Dynamics closes a US$200M pre-IPO round at a US$2.2B valuation — and calls listing "a must](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-limx-preipo) (2026-11-11): Shenzhen humanoid-robot maker LimX Dynamics (逐际动力) raised nearly US$200 million in a pre-I
- [Guangzhou launches a 200 billion yuan AI fund — and ties manager pay to wins and losses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-guangzhou-ai-fund) (2026-11-11): Guangzhou has set up a 200 billion yuan (≈ US$2.8 billion) artificial-intelligence industr
- [China defined what a brain-computer interface medical device is — before most such devices reached patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-nmpa-bci-regulation) (2026-11-11): China's drug regulator built a layered rulebook for brain-computer interface (脑机接口) medica
- [A Chinese neuromodulation startup cut the implant wire — and raised nearly US$28 million in its B round](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-lingchuang-neuromodulation) (2026-11-11): Beijing Lingchuang Medical Valley (领创医谷) closed a roughly ¥200M (≈ US$27.6M / HK$218M) B r
- [On one Chinese island, brain-computer interface devices can start clinical trials before national approval](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-hainan-lecheng-bci) (2026-11-11): Hainan is using its free-trade-port and Boao Lecheng medical zone to let brain-computer in
- [A tiny implant is calming the eyes that never stop shaking — and China just approved it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-chaomu-inys-visual-neurostimulator) (2026-11-11): China approved i-NYS, an implantable oculomotor neurostimulator from Chaomu Technology (超目
- [Meitu turned AI filters into 12.6 million paying users while its camera app stayed free](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-meitu-ai-photo-edit) (2026-11-11): The Xiamen photo app company booked record profit by charging for AI retouching features, 
- [DingTalk's AI assistant store put 200+ bots in front of 2.2 million companies before most offices noticed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-dingtalk-ai-assistant) (2026-11-11): Alibaba's workplace app opened an AI assistant marketplace with 200+ ready-made bots. The 
- [Alipay's finance bot Zhi Xiaobao reached 59 million users by answering fund questions, not by picking stocks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-alipay-zhixiaobao) (2026-11-11): Ant Group's Zhi Xiaobao lives inside Alipay and answers investment and insurance questions
- [Wondershare's Tianmu 2.0 lands above OpenAI's Sora on a Chinese text-to-video leaderboard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-wondershare-tianmu-2) (2026-11-11): At HDC 2025, Wondershare launched Tianmu 2.0, an audio-video multimodal large model built 
- [vivo's BlueLM-Art image model leans on Chinese text and culture — the gap global image tools keep missing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-vivo-bluelm-art) (2026-11-11): vivo's BlueLM-Art text-to-image model is tuned for Chinese prompts, Chinese cultural conte
- [LiblibAI closes a US$130M round — China's largest AIGC creation community bets on going global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-liblibai-series-b) (2026-11-11): LiblibAI raised US$130M in a Series B led by Sequoia China and CMC Capital, betting that a
- [China's generative-AI software market nears US$3.5B as buyers demand one platform, not many models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-china-genai-market-idc) (2026-11-11): IDC projects China's generative-AI software market will reach about US$3.54 billion by 202
- [Unitree's G1 humanoid: a $16,000 robot that actually ships](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-g1-humanoid) (2026-11-10): Unitree's G1 packs a research-grade humanoid into a sub-$20,000 price tag and ships worldw
- [UBTECH's Walker S2 is the humanoid actually clocking in at car factories](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-factory) (2026-11-10): UBTECH began mass-delivering its Walker S2 industrial humanoid in late 2025, with confirme
- [Neolix put 10,000 driverless delivery carts on real roads](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agri-logistics-robots) (2026-11-10): Beijing-based Neolix crossed 10,000 L4 delivery vehicles deployed across hundreds of citie
- [AgiBot's 1,000th robot rolled off the line — and it gave the data away](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-mass-production) (2026-11-10): Shanghai's AgiBot began mass-producing general-purpose robots in late 2024 and open-source
- [China's cross-border data rules: the thresholds that decide if AI training data can leave](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-security-crossborder) (2026-11-10): China's 2024 cross-border data provisions and 2025 network-data regulation set volume-base
- [China's schools are told to teach AI to every student — and to police chatbot cheating](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-education-schools) (2026-11-10): China's education authorities issued a 2024 notice and 2025 guidelines that push AI litera
- [China's AI content labeling rules: on-screen tags and invisible file fingerprints, both mandatory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling) (2026-11-10): Four Chinese regulators require AI-generated text, images, audio and video to carry both v
- [Wang Xingxing and Unitree: the engineer who made walking robots cheap enough to ship by the thousand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xingxing-unitree) (2026-11-10): A profile of Unitree founder Wang Xingxing, whose low-cost, in-house actuation turned quad
- [Frank Wang and DJI: the perfectionist who put a camera in the sky and now aims it at the road](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-tao-dji) (2026-11-10): A profile of DJI founder Wang Tao (Frank Wang), whose obsession with stable flight control
- [Liang Wenfeng and DeepSeek: how a quiet quant fund boss out-built the AI giants with open weights](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liang-wenfeng-deepseek) (2026-11-10): A profile of DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, whose quant-trading fortune and in-house GPUs
- [Test-time compute: how "think longer" became the new AI scaling axis](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-reasoning-test-time-compute) (2026-11-10): After OpenAI's o1 showed that reasoning improves when models spend more compute at inferen
- [Qwen3: how Alibaba turned one open model family into a ladder for every device](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-open-family) (2026-11-10): Alibaba's Qwen3 release put a full ladder of open-weight models — from a 0.6B phone-sized 
- [Kimi and the long-context race: why reading the whole book beat a bigger brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-long-context) (2026-11-10): Moonshot's Kimi built its identity on ultra-long context — from 200,000 characters in 2023
- [The DeepSeek moment: how a Hangzhou lab rewrote the AI cost equation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-open-efficiency) (2026-11-10): DeepSeek's V3 and R1 showed that smart architecture, not just giant GPU clusters, can prod
- [The Import Bill Inside China's AI Buildout](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-soe-import-bill) (2026-11-10): Central SOEs signed US$15.52bn of technology-equipment deals at the Shanghai import expo, 
- [China Set a 40% Robot Quota for Its Mines. The Trucks Arrived First](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-mining-substitution-target) (2026-11-10): A national scenario list puts a 40% substitution target on dangerous mining jobs while 8,5
- [10,000 Robots Off the Line, and Almost No Robot Revenue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-consumer-robot-unit-revenue) (2026-11-10): A Shanghai-listed maker ran 10,000 consumer robots off its line in seven weeks while robot
- [China Regulates AI Phones With a Licence It Already Had](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-agent-terminal-type-approval) (2026-11-10): MIIT's 6 November notice puts pre-installed AI agents inside telecom type approval and pre
- [Tencent open-sources Hunyuan to turn free models into a cloud moat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-hunyuan) (2026-11-10): Tencent gave away Hunyuan's video, 3D, and reasoning models, betting that developers who b
- [Doubao's token price cuts turn China's most-used AI app into a compute utility](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-doubao) (2026-11-10): ByteDance bundled its Doubao (豆包) chatbot, video model, and enterprise cloud into one low-
- [Alibaba's Qwen giveaway becomes the engine of its cloud business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-cloud) (2026-11-10): By open-sourcing Qwen at scale, Alibaba turned a free model family into the world's most-d
- [SMIC's N+2 process is the quiet foundation under China's AI chip push](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-n-plus-2) (2026-11-10): SMIC's 7nm-class N+2 node, built without EUV lithography, has become the foundry beneath H
- [Huawei's Ascend 910C bets on cluster math, not chip speed, to catch Nvidia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-ascend-910) (2026-11-10): How Huawei's domestic AI accelerator push pairs a 7nm-class chip with massive cluster desi
- [CXMT's HBM3 samples mark China's first real step into AI memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-hbm3) (2026-11-10): ChangXin Memory (长鑫存储) began shipping HBM3 samples to Huawei in 2025, opening a domestic f
- [Cambricon's first annual profit shows China's AI chip bets are finally paying off](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-profit-turn) (2026-11-10): Once a perennial loss-maker, Cambricon (寒武纪) swung to its first annual profit in 2025 as d
- [Hong Kong's 2024 tech-IPO wave was Chinese robot and chip makers — and only one opened above its offer price](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-robot-ipo-wave) (2026-11-10): Three China-based robotics and self-driving suppliers — RoboSense, Black Sesame, and Horiz
- [China's robot startups pulled in nine-figure rounds in 2025 — led by Galbot's US$300M haul](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-robot-funding-rounds) (2026-11-10): Unitree, Galbot, and AgiBot closed major 2024–2025 funding rounds for humanoid and embodie
- [China's Moore Threads raised US$1.1B to build homegrown GPUs — and listed while still deep in the red](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-aichip-ipo-china) (2026-11-10): Moore Threads (摩尔线程) sold 70 million STAR Market shares in late 2025 to raise ~US$1.13B fo
- [Synchron's Stentrode lets paralyzed patients chat with ChatGPT using only a thought](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-synchron-stentrode-ai-comm) (2026-11-10): Synchron paired its blood-vessel brain implant with OpenAI's models so people with no limb
- [Precision Neuroscience's hair-thin brain implant clears the FDA without entering brain tissue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-precision-neuroscience-thinfilm) (2026-11-10): Precision's Layer 7 cortical film — 1,024 electrodes on a surface array — became the first
- [No surgery, just a thought: China's non-invasive brain-computer rehab goes to market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-noninvasive-stroke-rehab) (2026-11-10): Xiangyu Medical and BrainCo are turning non-invasive EEG-based brain-computer interfaces i
- [A quadruple amputee in Shanghai moves a cursor with his mind — China's invasive BCI goes clinical](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-china-invasive-bci-trials) (2026-11-10): StairMed and NeuroXess have run China's first invasive BCI human trials in 2024–2025, deco
- [Inside China's AI tutor tablets: a 24-hour teacher that 80% of TAL users actually open](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-tutor-china) (2026-11-10): Two of China's biggest education brands rebuilt their learning tablets into always-on AI t
- [China's medical-imaging AI earned its license to be billed, not just demoed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-medical-imaging) (2026-11-10): A 2024 pricing rule and a wave of 2025 regulatory clearances turned Chinese medical-imagin
- [China's eldercare robots leave the expo floor for 200 real living rooms](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-eldercare-china) (2026-11-10): A 2025–2027 national pilot backed by two ministries will put service robots into hundreds 
- [Seedance put AI video inside ByteDance's apps — then taught it to speak](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedance-doubao-video) (2026-11-10): ByteDance's Seedance video model rolled out inside Doubao (豆包) and Jimeng (即梦) in 2025, th
- [Kling AI turned AI video into a US$240M global subscription business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-global-rollout) (2026-11-10): How Kuaishou's Kling AI (可灵) grew from a 2024 Sora-rival demo into a paid global creative 
- [Chinese platforms closed the AI-music loop: prompt, publish, and maybe get paid](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-china) (2026-11-10): NetEase Cloud Music's Tianyin (天音) now turns a text prompt into a published track with one
- [Meitu's US$540M year and Miaoya's reported retreat: two paths for China's AI image tools](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-image-design-china) (2026-11-10): Meitu (1357.HK) grew paid subscriptions to 16.9 million in 2025 by shipping AI agents, whi
- [From a CAS lab to Pakistan's Punjab: China's electric self-driving tractor goes global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-wisewit-agri-robots) (2026-11-09): WiseWit, a CAS spin-off, has logged nearly 1 million mu of unmanned farm work with electri
- [27 minutes to repair an offshore wind blade — with nobody on a rope](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-wind-blade-repair) (2026-11-09): A Shanghai-founded robotics firm cut blade repair at Ørsted's Horns Rev 2 to 27 minutes, m
- [A tea robot picks a bud every 0.6 seconds. The daily arithmetic is less flattering](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tea-picking-robots) (2026-11-09): Chinese labs have built tea-picking robots that pick a bud in about a second, but daily ou
- [Inside Star1: the Tsinghua-born humanoid that just passed a US$1.4B valuation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-noetix-star1-humanoid) (2026-11-09): Noetix Robotics, a 2023 Tsinghua spin-off, shipped 200+ STAR1 humanoids in 2025 and closed
- [A Chinese warehouse-robot maker now earns 46% gross margins abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-lanjian-overseas-warehouse) (2026-11-09): Lanjian Intelligent's overseas revenue doubled in H1 2026 at nearly twice its domestic gro
- [A robot now scrubs a ship's hull five times faster than the old way](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hull-cleaning-rov) (2026-11-09): Shenzhen's first live hull-cleaning trial and 1,000 ships cleaned by one Tianjin firm show

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