# 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 (26 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (31 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (30 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (23 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (21 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (22 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (14 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (15 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (13 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (14 articles)

## Recent articles

- [A Chinese robot just learned the car job nobody wanted — threading wires at Guinness speed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tars-wiring-harness-robot) (2026-09-30): TARS (它石智航), founded in 2025, deployed its A1 robot to thread automotive wiring harnesses 
- [Alibaba open-sourced its biggest model ever — a 2.4-trillion-parameter (大模型) you can download](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen3-8-open-weights) (2026-09-30): On 12 August 2026, Alibaba's Qwen team (通义千问) published Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B as open weights 
- [China's data-exit rule: how the 2024 cross-border flow provisions reshaped compliance](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-cross-border) (2026-09-30): A 2024 CAC rule eased the path for data to leave China while tightening the rules that sti
- [China's algorithm rulebook: the 2022 law that taught apps to ask permission first](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-algorithm-rules) (2026-09-30): Before the AI-labeling debate, China already had a binding rule for recommendation algorit
- [Wang Xiaochuan bets Baichuan (百川智能) on medical AI after the Sogou years](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xiaochuan) (2026-09-30): The Sogou founder who built China's most-used input method is now steering Baichuan Intell
- [Han Bicheng's non-invasive bet: can BrainCo (强脑科技) make brain-computer interfaces for everyday life?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-han-bicheng-brainco) (2026-09-30): The Harvard-trained founder of BrainCo chose the harder, less headline-grabbing path in br
- [MiniMax's M2.7 tries to make the model train itself — a bet on agent-native AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-m2-self-evolving-agent) (2026-09-30): On 18 March 2026, Shanghai's MiniMax (稀宇科技) released M2.7, an agent (智能体) model it says ca
- [China's first fully-implantable wireless brain chip just met a paralyzed patient](https://neuroai.site/a/na-harbin-wireless-bci-implant) (2026-09-30): A 56-year-old man with cervical spinal-cord injury in Harbin received a neuron-level, high
- [A Chinese rehab-robot maker bet one humanoid could work both wards and factories](https://neuroai.site/a/na-fourier-gr2-humanoid) (2026-09-30): Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶) launched the GR-2 humanoid in March 2026 for both rehabilitatio
- [Tencent-backed Enflame (燧原科技) just IPO'd on the STAR Market (科创板) — China's 'fourth GPU dragon' goes public](https://neuroai.site/a/na-enflame-star-market-ipo) (2026-09-30): On 11 September 2026, Shanghai Enflame Technology (燧原科技) listed on Shanghai's STAR Market 
- [SenseTime rebuilds itself as an AI cloud: SenseCore and SenseNova in one stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-sensetime-sensecore) (2026-09-30): Once known for facial recognition, the Hong Kong-listed company is now pitching a full-sta
- [Huawei Cloud's "Agentic Infra" play — 3,500 customers and a bet on the agent-native cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-cloud-agentic-ai) (2026-09-30): At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei Cloud unveiled an agent-first infrastructure strategy with 
- [Huawei's CloudMatrix 384: beating Nvidia with a rack instead of a chip?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cloudmatrix-384-supernode) (2026-09-30): With Nvidia's Jensen Huang admitting the China AI-chip market is "largely conceded" to Hua
- [Transwarp lists in Hong Kong under HKEX's 18C rule — a US$88M bet on AI infrastructure software](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-transwarp-hk-ipo) (2026-09-30): Transwarp (星环科技) became the first A-share company to list in Hong Kong under the 18C speci
- [ByteDance's US$29.6B loan — Asia's second-biggest AI war chest of 2026](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-bytedance-ai-loan) (2026-09-30): Reuters and Bloomberg report ByteDance has lined up a US$29.6 billion syndicated loan for 
- [China's invasive brain chip is about to meet humans — and it is as fast as Neuralink's](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beinao2-invasive-bci) (2026-09-30): BeiNao-2 (北脑二号), a 512-channel fully-invasive wireless BCI from the Beijing Brain Institut
- [China wrote a rule for brain-tech that never enters a hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-rehab-national-standard) (2026-09-30): Two foundational BCI national standards took effect Aug 1, 2026, and a non-invasive rehabi
- [Baichuan open-sourced a 235B medical model (大模型) trained to question you like a doctor](https://neuroai.site/a/na-baichuan-m3-medical-open) (2026-09-30): On 13 January 2026, Baichuan AI (百川智能) released Baichuan-M3 as open weights — a 235-billio
- [Two workers, 3,000 mu of cotton: China's AI 'super farm' in action](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-super-farm) (2026-09-30): At XAG's Guangzhou and Xinjiang "super farms", drones, BeiDou-guided tractors and an AI 'f
- [In China's grain heartland, AI now watches 3.2 million hectares](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-heilongjiang-ai-farming) (2026-09-30): Heilongjiang, China's top grain province, is folding AI, drones and robots into farming — 
- [A VW factory in Tianjin now runs 105 AI scenarios — what that really means](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-faw-vw-tianjin-ai-factory) (2026-09-30): FAW-Volkswagen's Tianjin plant has folded AI into stamping, welding, painting and assembly
- [A Chery-backed humanoid (人形机器人) is now selling in 60+ countries — China's robot export moment?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aimoga-mornine-export) (2026-09-30): AiMOGA Robotics, the embodied-intelligence (具身智能) arm of carmaker Chery (奇瑞), put its Morn
- [ByteDance's Seedance 2.0: can a 60-second prompt replace a film crew?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedance-2-video) (2026-09-30): ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 turns a single prompt into a 15-second multi-shot video with sync
- [China's AI microdramas hit the rulebook: every AI episode must now show its label](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-microdrama-rulebook) (2026-09-30): As AI-generated microdramas (短剧) flood Chinese platforms, Beijing issued its first dedicat
- [Tencent's Hunyuan3D goes open source: type a sentence, get a 3D world?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-hunyuan3d-open-source) (2026-09-30): Tencent has open-sourced Hunyuan3D-2.1 (production-ready text/image-to-3D with PBR materia
- [After the Spring Festival Gala, Unitree's US$13,500 G1 became the robot people actually tried to buy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-g1) (2026-09-29): Unitree (宇树科技) put its G1 humanoid (人形机器人) on stage at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala, and 
- [UBTECH's Walker S humanoids are now working real shifts inside Chinese auto plants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s) (2026-09-29): UBTECH's Walker S industrial humanoid (人形机器人) has moved from trade-show dancing to paid, r
- [A Chinese factory just put nearly 100 humanoid (人形机器人) workers on the payroll](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-a2-factory) (2026-09-29): In August 2025, AgiBot (智元机器人) signed a contract with Fulin Precision (富临精工) to deploy nea
- [China now forces a label on every AI-made image, video and text](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-aigc-labeling-cn) (2026-09-29): Since 1 September 2025, China has required service providers to mark AI-generated and AI-s
- [China's 15th Five-Year Plan makes 'AI+' a national default](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-15th-5yr-ai-plan) (2026-09-29): The 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), adopted in March 2026, puts artificial intelligence a
- [Wang Xingxing bet Unitree on cheap robots — now it's a $9 billion IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xingxing) (2026-09-29): Wang Xingxing (王兴兴), the 1990-born engineer who founded Unitree (宇树科技) in 2016, turned a l
- [Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋) and the cheap-AI doctrine that rattled Silicon Valley](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liang-wenfeng) (2026-09-29): Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋), the former quantitative-fund manager who founded DeepSeek in 2023, tu
- [StepFun open-sources Step 3, a 321-billion-parameter multimodal model anyone can run](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-stepfun-baichuan-open) (2026-09-29): Shanghai's StepFun (阶跃星辰) released Step 3 as open weights under Apache 2.0 on 31 July 2025
- [Alibaba's Qwen just shipped an open model you can run on one GPU — and it thinks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-new-open) (2026-09-29): On 14 August 2026, Alibaba's Qwen (通义千问) team published Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 l
- [DeepSeek just gave away a 552-billion-parameter model — and it's built to read, not just write](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v41-open) (2026-09-29): DeepSeek (深度求索) released V4.1-Flash as open weights on 10 September 2026 — a 552B-paramete
- [Baidu's ERNIE (文心) bet: why China's search giant opened its models after years of keeping them closed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-ernie) (2026-09-29): Baidu has spent 2025 and 2026 reversing a long-held strategy, open-sourcing its ERNIE (文心)
- [Alibaba's Qwen became the world's most-downloaded open AI model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-open) (2026-09-29): Alibaba's Qwen (通义千问) family crossed 3 billion downloads in 2026 and overtook Meta's Llama
- [Moore Threads booked US$209M in sales and turned a profit in Q1 — five years after betting on one GPU design](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-moore-threads-gpu) (2026-09-29): Moore Threads (摩尔线程), the first full-function GPU company to list on China's STAR Market, 
- [How Biren's BR-series GPU (壁仞) survived the Entity List and reached a Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-biren-gpu) (2026-09-29): Biren (壁仞科技) launched its BR100 general-purpose GPU (通用GPU) in 2022 as a domestic answer t
- [Zhipu's Hong Kong debut turns a Tsinghua spinout into China's first public large-model (大模型) company](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-zhipu-funding) (2026-09-29): On 8 January 2026, Zhipu AI (智谱) listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and closed 13% abo
- [MiniMax's (稀宇科技) funding arc: from Tencent and Alibaba cheques to a HK$4.8 billion IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-minimax-funding) (2026-09-29): MiniMax (稀宇科技) listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 9 January 2026, raising HK$4.8 bi
- [China's first approved brain–computer interface lets paralyzed patients grasp again — no wire through the skull](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-tsinghua-neo-wireless) (2026-09-29): In March 2026, China's drug regulator cleared the NEO system — a wireless, semi-invasive b
- [A Chinese implant let a paralyzed art teacher paint again — and it isn't built like Neuralink's](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuroxess-invasive-bci) (2026-09-29): NeuroXess (脑虎科技) has moved its fully implantable, wireless brain–computer interface (脑机接口)
- [A Shanghai brain–computer interface now decodes Chinese from neural signals — built for patients who have lost speech](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-fudan-chinese-char-als) (2026-09-29): A collaboration between Fudan University's Huashan Hospital and the Shanghai Rockies Neuro
- [Tencent's Yuanbao became China's third-largest AI app by riding the WeChat ecosystem](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-yuanbao-tencent) (2026-09-29): Tencent's Yuanbao (元宝) assistant, built on the company's Hunyuan large model (大模型), launch
- [Doubao (豆包) became China's default AI assistant — quietly, and through everyone's phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-doubao-assistant) (2026-09-29): By March 2026, ByteDance's Doubao (豆包) assistant had 345 million monthly active users — mo
- [Tencent Miying's AI imaging has screened nearly 10 million patients in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-medical-imaging-cn) (2026-09-29): Tencent's medical-imaging arm Miying (觅影) has grown from a 2017 demo into one of China's m
- [Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 can now put words in a character's mouth — and it's already a US$500M business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-3-video) (2026-09-29): Kuaishou's Kling (可灵) AI shipped its 3.0 model family on 5 February 2026 with native audio
- [Two Chinese video models launched the same day — and split on who gets to own them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-jimeng-hailuo-video) (2026-09-29): On 31 July 2026, ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 through its Jimeng (即梦) app while MiniMax
- [China now makes AI digital-human livestreamers show a label — or face being taken down](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-digital-human) (2026-09-29): A wave of rules and platform pledges in China now forces AI-generated digital human (数字人) 
- [Tinavi spent 15 years on one orthopedic robot — and became China's surgical-robot pioneer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tinavi-surgical) (2026-09-28): Tinavi's TiRobot (天玑) has assisted in more than 180,000 orthopedic procedures and made the
- [China's Neolix quietly put 10,000 delivery robots on the road — then 15,000](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-delivery) (2026-09-28): Neolix (新石器无人车), a Beijing-based autonomous-delivery-vehicle maker, became the first compa
- [China's AgiBot shipped more humanoid robots than anyone else in 2025 — and walked one 106 km](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-zhiyuan-humanoid) (2026-09-28): Zhiyuan Robotics, better known as AgiBot (智元机器人), went from founding in 2023 to the top of
- [Why Chinese apps now stamp "AI生成" on everything you see](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling) (2026-09-28): China's Measures for Labeling of AI-Generated/Synthetic Content (《人工智能生成合成内容标识办法》) took ef
- [Zhipu's Tsinghua founders chose a homegrown model architecture — and took it to Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhipu-founder) (2026-09-28): Spun out of a Tsinghua University lab in 2019, Zhipu built the GLM large model (大模型) famil
- [Wang Xingxing bet on cheap robots — and built China's first listed humanoid company](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xingxing-unitree) (2026-09-28): A 1990-born engineer from Ningbo turned a low-cost quadruped prototype into Unitree, now t
- [Zhipu open-sourced GLM-4.5 with 355B parameters — and gave agents a thinking mode](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm) (2026-09-28): On 28 July 2025, Beijing-based Zhipu AI (智谱AI) released GLM-4.5 as a fully open-weights mo
- [Moonshot bet everything on long context — then open-sourced a 1-trillion-parameter Kimi](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-moonshot-kimi-longctx) (2026-09-28): Beijing's Moonshot AI (月之暗面), founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin (杨植麟), built its identity aro
- [MiniMax open-sourced a 456B model with a 4-million-token memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-open) (2026-09-28): In January 2025, Shanghai-based MiniMax released and open-sourced MiniMax-01, a 456-billio
- [Xiaomi's CyberOne and MiMo show a phone maker betting AI belongs in bodies, not just chats](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xiaomi-cyberone) (2026-09-28): Xiaomi unveiled its CyberOne humanoid (人形机器人) back in 2022, but the real pivot came in 202
- [ByteDance's Doubao 1.8 reframes the model as an Agent brain, not a chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-doubao) (2026-09-28): At its winter FORCE conference, ByteDance's cloud arm Volcano Engine released Doubao 1.8, 
- [Alibaba's new AI chip is 3× last year's — and it's a bet on the whole stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-zhenwu-v900-ai-chip) (2026-09-28): At the 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba's chip unit T-Head unveiled Zhenwu V900, a training
- [Huawei's next Ascend chips — a 2028 roadmap built on system scale, not single-chip speed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-ascend-next) (2026-09-28): Huawei's Ascend (昇腾) 910C is now shipping at volume, but the more telling move came in Sep
- [Cambricon's comeback chip — the MLU590 that turned a loss-making lab profitable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-mlu) (2026-09-28): Founded in 2016 and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2020, Cambricon (寒武纪) spent years 
- [Unitree's Series C values the Hangzhou robot maker near US$1.7B — and looks like an IPO rehearsal](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-unitree-funding) (2026-09-28): Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou company behind the G1 and H1 humanoid robots, closed a Seri
- [Kimi closes a $500M Series C — and sits on a cash pile bigger than most Chinese AI labs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-moonshot-funding) (2026-09-28): Moonshot AI, the Beijing lab behind the Kimi chatbot, raised US$500 million in a Series C 
- [DeepSeek just hired its first CFO — what a 35-year-old exec signals about China's AI money race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-deepseek-first-cfo-ipo) (2026-09-28): For three years DeepSeek wore "no funding, no commercialization, no CFO" as a badge. In Se
- [China's closed-loop brain implant learns to catch seizures before they start](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-epilepsy-deep-brain) (2026-09-28): A homegrown closed-loop brain–computer interface (脑机接口) built by Neuracle is in late-stage
- [China's BrainCo turned a focus-tracking EEG headband into a 100,000-unit product — and a pre-IPO unicorn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-consumer-focus-headset) (2026-09-28): BrainCo (强脑科技), a Hangzhou neurotechnology company born in a Harvard lab, is one of the fe
- [China built a speech brain–computer interface that decodes Mandarin for locked-in patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-als-speech-decoding) (2026-09-28): Two separate Chinese teams have pushed speech brain–computer interfaces (脑机接口) past a wall
- [NetEase Youdao's Ziyue (子曰) education model is quietly running China's AI homework helpers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-tutor-china) (2026-09-28): NetEase Youdao (网易有道) launched Ziyue (子曰), billed as China's first education-specific larg
- [Tencent Miying holds three medical Class III certificates — what China's AI radiology actually does in clinics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-medical-imaging) (2026-09-28): Tencent Miying (腾讯觅影), launched in 2017, is one of the few Chinese medical-AI products wit
- [A Chinese lab is watching 1.27 million elderly people for falls — with radar, not cameras](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-eldercare) (2026-09-28): As China's over-60 population crosses 310 million, mmWave-radar AI is being deployed to de
- [China's Tripo 3D model turns a sentence into a game-ready asset — and just pulled $446M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tripo-3d-generation) (2026-09-28): VAST's Tripo, a Beijing-developed 3D generative model, can turn text or images into editab
- [Kuaishou's Kling became the AI video model that out-ranked Google Veo and Pika](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-ai-video) (2026-09-28): Kling AI (可灵AI), the video-generation large model (大模型) built inside short-video platform 
- [China will build 100,000 humanoids in 2026 — but fewer than 1 in 5 is actually on the job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-100k-deploy) (2026-09-27): MIIT projects China's humanoid output above 100,000 units this year, a 5x jump. Yet tracke
- [China's "BeiNao-1 (北脑一号)" just cleared 10 human implants — what a semi-invasive brain chip actually changes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-beinao-10-implants) (2026-09-27): A Beijing-backed brain-computer interface has reached 10 implants with over 45,000 hours o
- [China's Mureka Outsang Suno on the Global Music AI Bench — But Can It Out-Earn It?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-china) (2026-09-27): Kunlun Tech's Mureka V8 ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis's vocals and instrumental music l
- [Alibaba's Omni Model (全模态模型) Watches, Listens and Acts — Can One Brain Replace a Stack of Tools?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-multimodal-china) (2026-09-26): Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash handles text, image, audio and video in a one-million-token window and 
- [China's open-weight model wave — flagship 大模型 you can download, not just rent](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-china-open-models) (2026-09-26): Across late August and September 2026, Alibaba, Tencent, Zhipu and ModelBest published ope

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