# 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 (57 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (151 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (161 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (156 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (153 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (150 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (126 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (114 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (108 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (109 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (114 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Farm robots that let one person manage what used to need a crew](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xag-agricultural-drone) (2026-11-08): XAG's agricultural drones and unmanned ground vehicles turn solo farmers into fleet operat
- [The humanoid that swaps its own battery to work the night shift](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s2-byd) (2026-11-08): UBTECH's Walker S2 brings autonomous battery swapping to car factories, but real autonomy 
- [A Chinese surgical robot now operates across borders by remote control](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-toumai-surgical-robot) (2026-11-08): MicroPort's Toumai laparoscopic robot pairs a lower price with CE-certified telesurgery, b
- [The driverless van that quietly took over China's last mile](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-delivery-vehicle) (2026-11-08): Neolix has put more than 10,000 autonomous delivery vehicles on roads across 300-plus citi
- [China's draft AI safety baseline maps the lifecycle before it binds](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-genai-safety-baseline-draft) (2026-11-08): A 2024 TC260 draft national standard sketches security expectations across the generative-
- [China's cross-border data rule: easier flows, same red lines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-cross-border-data-provisions) (2026-11-08): The 2024 Provisions on Cross-Border Data Flows loosen routine transfers while keeping secu
- [China's AI content labeling rule: why a hidden watermark now carries the force of law](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-11-08): Beijing's 2025 labeling measures pair a binding rule with a mandatory national standard, t
- [Yang Zhilin built Kimi on a bet that context length, not chat, would win](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot) (2026-11-08): The Moonshot AI founder turned a long-document obsession into one of China's most recogniz
- [Peng Zhihui left Huawei's genius program to make robots that punch a factory time-clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-peng-zhihui-agibot) (2026-11-08): The AgiBot co-founder turned hobby hardware videos into one of China's fastest-growing hum
- [Hong Bo's coin-sized implant helps paralyzed patients grasp again without entering the brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-hong-bo-tsinghua-bci) (2026-11-08): The Tsinghua professor behind the NEO brain-computer interface chose a less invasive path 
- [Qwen3 put both fast and slow thinking inside one open-weight family](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-open-weights) (2026-11-08): Alibaba's Qwen3 blends a thinking and a non-thinking mode in a single Apache-licensed mode
- [MiniMax-01 read four million tokens by rebuilding attention itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-01-longcontext) (2026-11-08): Shanghai's MiniMax-01 pairs a text model with a multimodal (多模态) one and handles four-mill
- [Kimi K2 made an open trillion-parameter model built for agents, not chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k2-agentic) (2026-11-08): Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is a 1T-parameter open-weight model tuned for coding and tool use, b
- [DeepSeek-R1 turned frontier reasoning into an open-weight download](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-r1-open-reasoning) (2026-11-08): How an MIT-licensed reasoning model (推理模型) from a Chinese lab reshaped who can build with 
- [iFlytek's AI box lets companies run a large model without sending data to the cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-iflytek-spark-enterprise) (2026-11-08): At GITEX 2025, iFlytek unveiled a Spark large-model all-in-one server that runs entirely o
- [Huawei opens the software behind its AI chips, but keeps the silicon for itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-ascend-cloud) (2026-11-08): Huawei pledged to fully open-source the CANN software stack behind its Ascend AI processor
- [Alibaba gives Qwen3 to the world, but keeps its largest model behind a paywall](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-opensource) (2026-11-08): Alibaba open-sourced the Qwen3 family under Apache 2.0, yet reserved its trillion-paramete
- [China put its EDA champion under state control — the software that designs every chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eda-domestic-tools) (2026-11-08): Empyrean, China's largest EDA vendor, became state-controlled in late 2024, just days afte
- [China's homegrown memory maker takes the public stage after a decade of losses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-dram-memory) (2026-11-08): ChangXin Memory, the Hefei DRAM specialist, listed on the STAR Market in 2026 and became o
- [A ten-year-old AI chip lab finally turned a profit — and that is the real story](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-ai-accelerator) (2026-11-08): Cambricon, the CAS spin-off behind China's Siyuan accelerators, posted its first annual pr
- [When you cannot print smaller chips, you stack them — China's packaging bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-advanced-packaging-chiplet) (2026-11-08): Blocked from the latest lithography, Chinese chip firms are leaning on advanced packaging 
- [Galaxy Universal's $300 million round rewrites the humanoid robotics funding ceiling](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-galaxy-universal-funding) (2026-11-08): Beijing Galaxy Universal Robotics closed a funding round above $300 million (about 2.1 bil
- [Biren's Hong Kong debut shows investors will pay for China's chip gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-biren-hkex-ipo) (2026-11-08): Shanghai Biren Technology listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as 6082.HK on January 2, 
- [Alibaba's 380 billion yuan cloud plan is a capacity race, not a product launch](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-alibaba-cloud-capex) (2026-11-08): Alibaba committed at least 380 billion yuan (about $53 billion) over three years to AI and
- [Can a brain-computer interface rebuild a stroke survivor's hand? Inside a Chinese trial](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-stroke-bci-rehab-rct) (2026-11-08): A randomized trial across 17 Chinese hospitals found non-invasive BCI training added a sma
- [China's first invasive BCI human trial: a paralyzed man's thoughts become the controller](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-stairmed-first-invasive-trial) (2026-11-08): Shanghai's StairMed ran China's first pre-registration invasive brain-computer interface t
- [China approved the world's first implanted brain-computer interface as a medical device](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuracle-neo-nmpa-approval) (2026-11-08): Neuracle's NEO-ONE SCI, a hands-assist implant for cervical spinal injury, became the firs
- [Tsinghua's wireless brain implant gave a paralyzed man back his grip — without a single battery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neo-tsinghua-wireless-implant) (2026-11-08): Tsinghua's NEO system, implanted at Beijing's Xuanwu and Tiantan hospitals, let paralyzed 
- [Inside China's hospitals, an AI now flags colon polyps as doctors look](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tencent-miying-medical-imaging) (2026-11-08): Tencent Miying's NMPA-approved colonoscopy AI marks suspected polyps in real time on the e
- [How a Chinese vegetable town turned its greenhouses into data factories](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shouguang-smart-greenhouse) (2026-11-08): In Shouguang, Shandong, robot dogs patrol greenhouses and IoT systems auto-tune climate an
- [How an AI tutor is reaching children in China's remote villages](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-iflytek-rural-ai-tutor) (2026-11-08): iFlytek's AI learning machines and speaking classrooms are being placed in rural schools a
- [China issued a digital ID to virtual humans, then set them to work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-virtual-human-broadcast) (2026-11-08): Beijing began registering AI digital humans as identifiable entities, while brands found t
- [China's short-drama apps stopped translating and started filming abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-shortdrama-global) (2026-11-08): A handful of Chinese microdrama apps now dominate the global paid-short-video market by sh
- [Kuaishou's Kling turned video generation into an overseas business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-global-video) (2026-11-08): How a Chinese video-generation model built a paying global user base faster than most apps
- [China now makes every AI-made video and image carry a visible — and invisible — label](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-content-labeling) (2026-11-08): A September 2025 rule requires Chinese platforms to tag AI-made text, audio, images, and v
- [Unitree's $4,900 R1 puts a humanoid robot in the AliExpress cart](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-r1-global) (2026-11-07): Unitree (宇树科技) opened global pre-orders for its R1 humanoid on AliExpress in April 2026, s
- [ULS Robotics puts a 60% lighter load on China's factory floors](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-uls-industrial-exoskeleton) (2026-11-07): Shanghai's ULS Robotics (傲鲨智能) builds powered industrial exoskeletons that cut perceived l
- [China's empty-cab harvest: driverless combines and robot dogs pick up the slack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-autonomous-harvest-china) (2026-11-07): At the 2026 autumn harvest, Chinese farms ran driverless rice combines that unload into au
- [AgiBot's Expedition A2 goes global — via Singapore's Changi and a Munich car partner](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-a2-global) (2026-11-07): AgiBot (智元机器人) is pushing its Expedition A2 humanoid beyond China: a Singtel partnership a
- [Beijing and Shanghai just opened the data-export gate to the whole city](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-export-negative-list-citywid) (2026-11-07): China's data-export negative list (负面清单), once confined to free-trade zones, has been exte
- [China's AI security governance framework 2.0: a map, not a mandate](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-security-governance-framework) (2026-11-07): The 人工智能安全治理框架 2.0版, released in September 2025, updates China's non-binding AI risk map. 
- [China puts driver-assist safety to a binding test — but the rule is still a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-adas-safety-standard-draft) (2026-11-07): The mandatory national standard 智能网联汽车 组合驾驶辅助系统安全要求 is out for comment. Until it passes, c
- [The UCLA-trained statistician who built Yitu (依图科技) into an AI dragon — and a homegrown chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhu-long-yitu) (2026-11-07): Zhu Long (朱珑), a statistician trained at UCLA and MIT who worked with Yann LeCun at NYU, c
- [The Intel veteran who took UISEE (驭势科技) from a Beijing garage to a HK$8.5 billion market cap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wu-gansha-uisee) (2026-11-07): Wu Gansha (吴甘沙), former Intel China research chief, founded UISEE (驭势科技) in 2016 to automa
- [The ResNeXt and DiT author who is on leave from NYU to build LeCun's world-model lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-saining-xie-ami) (2026-11-07): Saining Xie (谢赛宁), the Chinese computer scientist behind ResNeXt and the Diffusion Transfo
- [Zhipu's GLM-5.3: the company says a smaller base, trained harder, can compete on coding](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm53-open-coding) (2026-11-07): Zhipu AI released GLM-5.3 on 14 August 2026 as a coding model due for open-weight release,
- [Tencent positions Hunyuan Hy4 among the strongest open-weight models — with a price that didn't move](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuan-hy4-open) (2026-11-07): On 4 November 2026 Tencent released Hunyuan Hy4, its first model the company positions amo
- [DeepSeek's quiet pricing experiment: pay less if you call at 3 a.m.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-peak-offpeak-pricing) (2026-11-07): Since 17 August 2026 DeepSeek has priced API tokens by time of day — off-peak rates half o
- [China's Baichuan bets on a medical model that asks before it answers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baichuan-m3-medical) (2026-11-07): Baichuan Intelligence open-sourced Baichuan-M3, a medical large model that, the company sa
- [China's AI Policy Now Comes as a Catalogue. The Test Is Whether Anyone Copies It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-scenario-catalogue-replication) (2026-11-07): MIIT published 1,000+ AI use cases in October 2026, and a CAICT vice-president said nearly
- [China Is Standardising the Wires Between Its Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-scaleup-interconnect-standards) (2026-11-07): Two copper-cable standards and an optical-connector specification published within days of
- [Tencent's Hunyuan Hy4 reaches 770B parameters and pledges to open-source its weights](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-hunyuan-hy4) (2026-11-07): Tencent released Hunyuan Hy4 on 4 November, a 770-billion-parameter large model with first
- [SenseTime ships SenseNova 6.8 Flash with long-term memory — and posts its first profitable half-year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-sensetime-sensenova-68) (2026-11-07): SenseTime released SenseNova 6.8 Flash on 2-3 November with long-term memory and proactive
- [Baidu open-sources ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280B-parameter model that bets on efficiency over size](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-ernie-55) (2026-11-07): Baidu released and open-sourced ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base on 5 November, a 280-billion-paramete
- [232 layers, two wafers: inside YMTC's (长江存储) Xtacking NAND](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ymtc-xtacking-nand) (2026-11-07): Wuhan-based YMTC (长江存储) reached 232-layer 3D NAND with its Xtacking hybrid-bonding archite
- [Montage (澜起科技): the interface chips behind AI server memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-montage-memory-interface) (2026-11-07): Montage (澜起科技) doesn't make memory or GPUs — it makes the interface chips that let AI serv
- [GTX 1050-class, not H100-class: what Jingjia Micro (景嘉微) actually ships](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-jingjia-domestic-gpu) (2026-11-07): Jingjia Micro (景嘉微) is a domestic GPU maker with a long track record, but its mass-market 
- [Etching past 5nm: how AMEC (中微公司) became China's quiet equipment lever](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-amec-etch-equipment) (2026-11-07): AMEC (中微公司), the Shanghai etching-tool maker, posted 2025 equipment revenue of about 12.4 
- [Chinese video-model startup Sand.ai says a $200M round lifts it past the unicorn line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-sandai-video-model-200m) (2026-11-07): Sand.ai (三呆科技), a video-generation large-model (大模型) company, closed a US$200M A+ round in
- [Robotics maker ROKAE lands on HKEX — and shows the IPO math behind China's robot wave](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-rokae-hkex-ipo) (2026-11-07): ROKAE (珞石机器人), a Shandong-based industrial and collaborative robot maker, listed on the Ho
- [Micronano Core's $140M chip round shows where Chinese AI-inference bets are going](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-micronano-core-c2) (2026-11-07): Micronano Core (微纳核芯), a Hangzhou 3D compute-in-memory AI-chip designer, closed a RMB 1B+ 
- [Pudong bets on brain-computer interfaces with a 26-company cluster and a three-year plan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-zhangjiang-bci-pilot-zone) (2026-11-07): Shanghai's Pudong district has gathered 26 brain-computer interface firms and unveiled a 2
- [China puts brain-computer interfaces on the space station for astronaut cognition](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-space-station-bci) (2026-11-07): At the first Aerospace Medicine Engineering Conference in Tianjin, China's astronaut train
- [China's non-invasive sleep headbands move toward the market as LumiSleep wins CES 2026](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-consumer-sleep-bci-2026) (2026-11-07): Non-invasive brain-computer interface sleep aids are moving toward bedrooms in China, led 
- [A θ-wave biomarker turns chronic pain into something a brain-computer interface can read](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-closed-loop-pain-bci) (2026-11-07): A Shanghai hospital team reports a preclinical closed-loop brain-computer interface that r
- [How one English AI tutor reached 15,000 Chinese schools — and 5.3B cumulative calls](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tianxue-ai-english-tutor) (2026-11-07): Tianxuewang (天学网), a Beijing firm with 23 years in English teaching, has put a subject-spe
- [China's Shennong agri-model now IDs 1,016 crop pest and disease types at 93% accuracy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shennong-agri-model) (2026-11-07): China Agricultural University's Shennong agricultural large model (神农大模型) 4.0 recognizes 1
- [Inside Ant's AI risk engine: 230+ spending scenes and an NPL rate about 20% below average](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ant-ai-risk-control) (2026-11-07): Ant Consumer Finance (蚂蚁消金) says AI-driven scenario risk control lifted credit-line approv
- [Wan3.0 tops the global video leaderboards — and powered an Olympic opening](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-wan-olympics-video) (2026-11-07): Alibaba's Wan3.0 holds the #1 spot on Artificial Analysis' text-to-video and video-editing
- [One-person companies, powered by digital humans: inside Silicon Intelligence's bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-silicon-intelligence-opc) (2026-11-07): Silicon Intelligence (硅基智能) is repositioning from a digital-human vendor into an 'OPC' pla
- [Dreamina's Seedance 2.5 and Seedream 5.0 Pro put editors, not just generators, in creators' hands](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-dreamina-seedance-2-5) (2026-11-07): ByteDance's Dreamina rolled out Seedance 2.5 video and Dola Seedream 5.0 Pro image models,
- [Baidu's Ernie 5.0 reframes video as one mode of one omnimodal model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-baidu-ernie5-video) (2026-11-07): Baidu's Ernie 5.0 (文心5.0) is a 2.4-trillion-parameter native omnimodal model that treats v
- [Tsinghua's non-invasive BCI: faster signals, smaller hardware](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tsinghua-ssvep-noninvasive-bci) (2026-11-06): Tsinghua researchers led by Gao Xiaorong advanced non-invasive brain-computer interfaces —
- [Stair Med's implantable BCI reaches China's regulatory fast lane](https://neuroai.site/a/na-stair-med-implantable-bci) (2026-11-06): Shanghai's Stair Med (阶梯医疗) put a 256-channel implantable brain-computer interface into pa
- [Pudu's quiet global push: how a Shenzhen robot maker sells abroad without a price war](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-pudu-overseas-expansion) (2026-11-06): Pudu Robotics ships service and cleaning robots to 85+ countries. We break down its Glocal
- [Gausium's 20-billion-square-meter bet: the unglamorous economics of cleaning robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-gs-robotics-cleaning-amr) (2026-11-06): Gausium (高仙机器人) delivered 40,000+ cleaning robots in 70+ countries. We verify its funding,
- [Galbot's retail robot: why a Beijing lab put humanoids in pharmacies first](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galbot-retail-humanoid) (2026-11-06): Galbot (银河通用) deployed its G1 humanoid in Beijing pharmacies and stores. We verify its CAT
- [Astribot's bet on hands, not feet: a Shenzhen humanoid that learns by watching](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-astribot-dexterous-humanoid) (2026-11-06): Stardust Intelligence's Astribot S1 hits 10 m/s with its arms and learns by imitation. We 
- [Pudong's weather-data market rule: opening climate data to finance under a negative list](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-pudong-weather-data-market) (2026-11-06): Pudong's 2025 meteorological-data marketization rule opens weather data to finance under a
- [Beijing's AI-native city model: turning adoption into benchmark application engineering](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-beijing-ai-native-city) (2026-11-06): Beijing's 2024–2025 AI+ Action Plan built an 'AI-native city' through flagship application

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