# 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 (35 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (91 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (97 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (92 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (89 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (84 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (76 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (66 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (63 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (62 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (66 articles)

## Recent articles

- [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
- [Wang Tao: how a C-grade helicopter project became the world's drone leader](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-tao-dji) (2026-10-23): The reclusive founder of DJI turned a crashed graduation project into a company holding ro
- [Chen Tianqiao: the gaming billionaire who staked US$1B on the brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianqiao-brain-science) (2026-10-23): How Shanda's founder redirected a US$1 billion fortune from online games to fundamental br
- [Step 5 Preview goes open-weight and lands at number two on OpenRouter](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-step5-preview-open-weights) (2026-10-23): StepFun open-sourced a 600B MoE built for long-horizon agents, and real developers are alr
- [iFlytek bets on fully domestic compute with Spark X2.6 and an end-cloud split](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-x26-domestic) (2026-10-23): iFlytek's Spark X2.6 runs entirely on homegrown chips and routes work between device and c
- [Tencent rebuilds Hunyuan from the ground up and open-sources Hy3 preview](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuan-hy3-preview-open) (2026-10-23): After tearing down its training stack, Tencent shipped Hy3 preview — a 295B MoE with fast/
- [Doubao-Seed-2.1 Pro turns coding and agents into a volume game](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-doubao-21-pro-coding-agent) (2026-10-23): ByteDance's flagship now backs 180 trillion daily tokens at prices roughly 80% under Claud
- [Two Prices for the Same Kind of Chinese Model Lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-model-lab-valuation) (2026-10-23): Zhipu and MiniMax published half-year results in 2026 while Moonshot closed a private roun
- [China Proposed an Export-Control List for Its Own AI Models. Read the Exemptions.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-export-controls) (2026-10-23): A 16 October 2026 draft adds 23 AI technologies to China's export catalogue. API access an
- [Xiaomi ships three in-house chips, betting on an AI compute base across phone, edge and car](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xiaomi-xring-o100) (2026-10-23): Xiaomi's XRING O3, O100 and D100 cover flagship phone, on-device AI acceleration and auton
- [Pudu Robotics runs its overseas revenue past 80%, betting on service bots beyond China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-pudu-global-expansion) (2026-10-23): Shenzhen's Pudu Robotics says it leads the global commercial service-robot market with 130
- [DeepSeek opens V4 with 1-million-token context and a two-tier model line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-deepseek-v4-launch) (2026-10-23): DeepSeek released V4 in April 2026 as open weights under an MIT license, shipping a 1M-tok
- [NAURA's 2024 results show China's broad-line equipment maker is scaling with the fabs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-naura-equipment-scale) (2026-10-23): NAURA reported 2024 revenue of RMB 29.84 billion, up 35%, with semiconductor equipment pas
- [Loongson's 3C6000 server chip bets on a third CPU ecosystem beyond x86 and ARM](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-loongson-3c6000-server-cpu) (2026-10-23): Loongson launched the 3C6000 server CPU on the LoongArch instruction set in June 2025, sca
- [Enflame's market debut puts a self-built AI accelerator maker under the spotlight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-enflame-ai-accelerator-ipo) (2026-10-23): Enflame listed on the SSE STAR Market in September 2026 after growing revenue to RMB 990 m
- [AMEC's 2024 results and new edge etcher signal a maturing Chinese toolmaker](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-amec-etching-equipment) (2026-10-23): AMEC posted 2024 revenue of RMB 9.07 billion, up 44.7%, with etching equipment at RMB 7.28
- [Rope-driven robot maker Stardust hits ¥15B valuation on ¥1B round](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-stardust-ai-15b-valuation) (2026-10-23): Stardust Intelligence (星尘智能) closed a ¥1B round at a ¥15B valuation, led by Shenzhen Inves
- [Beijing state fund leads Huixi's ¥2.5B embodied-intelligence chip raise](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-huixi-intelligent-25b-funding) (2026-10-23): Huixi Intelligent (辉羲智能) closed Pre-B+ and B rounds pushing its 2026 equity financing past
- [Emotional-companion robot EIR lands Sichuan's first ¥100M Pre-A](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-eir-emotional-robot-prea) (2026-10-23): Sichuan Embodied Tech (四川具身科技), maker of the emotional-interaction robot Ai Qiu (爱湫), clos
- [Zhejiang University's spinal implant lets paralyzed patients stand and walk again](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-zju-spinal-bci-walking) (2026-10-23): A closed-loop spinal-cord neural interface from Zhejiang University and its affiliated hos
- [SceneRay (景昱医疗) wins world-first approval for a brain implant that treats drug addiction](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-sceneray-addiction-dbs) (2026-10-23): China's NMPA cleared SceneRay's dual-target deep brain stimulation system in December 2025
- [PINS Medical (品驰医疗) ships "super brain pacemaker" G108R after 18 years of domestic DBS work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-pins-super-pacemaker) (2026-10-23): The Beijing maker's G108R DBS, approved by NMPA in March 2026, charges in 30 minutes a wee
- [Beinao-1 (北脑一号): 128-channel wireless implant returns movement and speech to paralyzed patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-beinao1-wireless-bci) (2026-10-23): Beijing Brain Institute's semi-invasive wireless BCI has been implanted in six patients, d
- [Xiong'an's 'AI Agronomist' Turns a Phone Photo Into a Pest Diagnosis in 5 Seconds](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xiongan-ai-farm-model) (2026-10-23): Xiong'an's '雄小农 (Xiongxiao Nong)' model, built on China Telecom's SenNong base and DeepSee
- [Shenzhen's AI-Assisted Court System — 35 Million Tasks, Judges Still Decide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shenzhen-ai-court) (2026-10-23): Shenzhen runs the world's first full-process AI-assisted adjudication system, lifting judg
- [AI Mental-Health Stations Reach 300 Chinese Schools — Humans Still in the Loop](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-school-ai-mental-health) (2026-10-23): From Tsinghua-backed chat cabins to iFlytek stress-relief apps, Chinese schools are scalin
- [NetEase closes the loop on AI music — write a song, ship it, get paid](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-netease-tianyin-ai-music) (2026-10-23): NetEase's 天音 AI songwriting studio now spans lyrics, melody, voice and one-tap release ins
- [Kling 4.0 turns AI clips into shippable, sound-on video](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-4-audiovisual) (2026-10-23): Kuaishou's 可灵 AI video model added native audio, 4K HDR and a commercial API toolkit — the
- [China's animation studios are quietly handing the pipeline to AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-animation-china) (2026-10-23): From Bilibili's creator tools to Yuewen's IP experiments and iQIYI's mid-length plan, Chin
- [360's "nano-pipeline" bets on industrial-grade AI comic-drama](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-360-manju-pipeline) (2026-10-23): A 360-backed platform says it can hold character faces and scenes stable across hundreds o
- [XPeng is building humanoid robots the way it builds cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xpeng-iron-line) (2026-10-22): XPeng launched a car-grade automated line for its IRON humanoid, betting that vehicle manu
- [Can a humanoid robot keep a battery plant running around the clock?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galbot-catl-battery) (2026-10-22): Galbot's heavy-lift robot has worked continuous 24-hour shifts inside CATL's battery lines
- [Why Beijing's robot games are starting to look like a job fair](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-beijing-games-work) (2026-10-22): At the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, the real contest was not sprinting but folding lau
- [Can a humanoid robot survive a real factory shift?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-factory-shift) (2026-10-22): Eight humanoid robots ran a six-day, unscripted shift inside a live tablet factory in Nanc
- [China's "vehicle-road-cloud" bet: 20 cities rewire the street for self-driving](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-vehicle-road-cloud-pilot) (2026-10-22): A 2024–2026 pilot has 20 Chinese cities build roadside sensors and cloud systems so autono
- [China's ethics-review rule: build the committee before you build the model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-tech-ethics-review-measures) (2026-10-22): A 2023 trial measure makes Chinese universities, hospitals, and AI firms form an ethics co
- [China's drone law splits the sky into five classes — here is what operators must do](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-drone-flight-regulations) (2026-10-22): China's drone regulation took effect January 1, 2024, sorting unmanned aircraft into five 
- [Can Zhou Xi (周曦) turn face recognition into a profitable AI company?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-xi) (2026-10-22): Zhou Xi (周曦) founded CloudWalk (云从科技) in 2015 and listed on the STAR Market in 2022, betti
- [Can Ma Weiying (马维英) teach machines to do real science?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-ma-weiying) (2026-10-22): Ma Weiying (马维英), a former ByteDance AI Lab head and Microsoft Research Asia veteran, now 
- [Can coding champion Lou Tiancheng (楼天城) make driverless cars mainstream?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lou-tiancheng) (2026-10-22): Lou Tiancheng (楼天城), Pony.ai's co-founder and CTO, turned a competitive-programming record
- [Alibaba's new model listens, watches, and starts working](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen38-omni-flash) (2026-10-22): Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash takes text, image, audio and video together and is built to p
- [Huawei open-sources a model built for its own chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-openpangu-2) (2026-10-22): Huawei has open-sourced openPangu-2.0, a large model family tuned for its Ascend compute a
- [Manus returns with an agent that finishes the job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-manus-2-agent) (2026-10-22): Manus, a Chinese-founded startup, launched Manus 2.0 and a companion app called Cue for bu
- [Baidu's new model does more on a fraction of the training bill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ernie-51) (2026-10-22): Baidu's ERNIE 5.1 keeps flagship-level skill while cutting model size and training cost sh
- [China Put AI on the School Timetable. The Teacher Is the Real Test](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-education-timetable) (2026-10-22): Five ministries put AI into local curricula, and provinces set the class hours. The bindin
- [An AI-Designed Drug Reached Phase III. Read the Endpoint, Not the Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-drug-phase-three) (2026-10-22): Rentosertib entered a 320-patient Phase III trial in China in September 2026. The mid-stag
- [Unitree is shipping thousands of robots abroad without opening a single overseas store](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-unitree-global-sales) (2026-10-22): Unitree sells its humanoids through US resellers, Japanese agencies and Korean e-commerce 
- [iFlytek is betting on Southeast Asia to prove Chinese AI can go global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-iflytek-global-ai) (2026-10-22): iFlytek is pushing speech translation and in-car assistants into Southeast Asia and global
- [From Munich to Kuala Lumpur: how AgiBot is taking China's humanoids abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-agibot-global-expansion) (2026-10-22): AgiBot is opening showrooms abroad, signing European distributors and demoing at the UN — 
- [Can China's homemade lithography finally break ASML's grip?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-duv-equipment-coalition) (2026-10-22): Reuters says a Huawei-linked group plans about five homegrown DUV lithography machines in 
- [Who is putting Chinese camera chips inside the world's cars?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cis-image-sensors-china) (2026-10-22): Yole's 2026 report shows China is now the world's second-largest CMOS image-sensor supplie
- [How China took control of the chips that power electric cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-auto-power-semiconductors) (2026-10-22): Early-2026 data shows Chinese suppliers leading China's car power-module market, with BYD 
- [Can advanced packaging let China skip the EUV bottleneck?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-advanced-packaging-wave) (2026-10-22): Between May and July 2026 Chinese firms unveiled nearly ten advanced-packaging projects wo
- [Transwarp just crossed to Hong Kong — the first A-share firm to use the 18C route](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-transwarp-hk-ipo) (2026-10-22): Transwarp, already Shanghai-listed, raised about HK$687 million in a Hong Kong IPO under C
- [China's "token factory" just raised billions — and filed to list in Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-siliconflow-token-platform) (2026-10-22): SiliconFlow, China's largest independent token supplier, raised about RMB 2.9 billion in 2
- [Beijing killed its Meta sale — now Manus just raised US$500 million](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-manus-agent-funding) (2026-10-22): Manus, the Chinese-built AI agent, closed a US$500 million round at about a US$4 billion v
- [A Beijing lab's stretchable "paper-cut" electrode just reached 1024 brain channels](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-zhiran-1024-channel-bci) (2026-10-22): Beijing Zhiran's implantable brain–computer interface uses a paper-cut-inspired electrode 
- [Inside the Chinese hospitals quietly wiring brain–computer interfaces into stroke rehab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-xiangyu-noninvasive-bci-rehab) (2026-10-22): Xiangyu Medical has put non-invasive brain–computer interface systems in hundreds of hospi
- [Thought-controlled legs — how a Chinese exoskeleton is retraining paralyzed patients to walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-iflytek-bci-exoskeleton) (2026-10-22): iFLYTEK's rehab arm built a non-invasive brain–computer interface exoskeleton that turns t
- [How a Jiangxi development zone is trying to manufacture a brain–computer interface industry from zero](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-ganjiang-bci-hub) (2026-10-22): Ganjiang New Area in Jiangxi published a 52-point plan for a brain–computer interface clus
- [Inside China's vegetable capital, a robot dog now patrols the greenhouses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shouguang-ai-robot-dog) (2026-10-22): Shouguang's Tianquan robot dog patrols greenhouses with an agricultural large model, flagg
- [Every 53 seconds a car rolls out: inside China's AI-run 'lighthouse' EV plant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-gac-aion-lighthouse) (2026-10-22): GAC Aion's Guangzhou plant, the world's first NEV 'lighthouse factory,' uses 600+ robots a
- [Can a fetal heart scan in remote China match a Beijing specialist's eye?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-cardiac-ultrasound-ai) (2026-10-22): Beijing Anzhen's cardiac ultrasound assistant now runs in 1,000+ clinics across 31 provinc
- [Kunlun's SkyReels went open source — and handed developers a ready-made video engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-skyreels-open-video) (2026-10-22): Kunlun open-sourced its SkyReels-V3 video model in January 2026 with reference-to-video an
- [PixVerse's real-time world model turns AI video into something you can talk to](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-pixverse-world-model) (2026-10-22): PixVerse passed 150 million users and closed a US$439M Series C extension in 2026 while la
- [Meitu turned its selfie apps into AI workbenches — and found a paying crowd of creators](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-meitu-creator-economy) (2026-10-22): Meitu's 2026 interim results show over 18.44 million paying subscribers and AI apps at RMB
- [Tencent's free detector says it can spot AI text and images — but the verdict comes with fine print](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-content-detection) (2026-10-22): Tencent's Zhuque (朱雀) detector checks text, images and video for machine-made traces and i
- [Unitree's record IPO puts a US$8.5 billion price tag on humanoid robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-star-ipo) (2026-10-21): Yushu Technology's STAR Market listing priced at 150.80 yuan a share, valuing the quadrupe
- [China's warehouses and fire crews are strapping on powered exoskeletons](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-industrial-exoskeleton-china) (2026-10-21): Powered exoskeletons are moving from labs to Chinese logistics hubs and fire brigades, qui
- [Fourier's GR-3 care humanoid bets that being touchable matters more than being strong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-gr3-carebot) (2026-10-21): Shanghai's Fourier built the GR-3, a 165 cm care-focused humanoid wrapped in soft skin, be
- [How Ecovacs turned household chores into a global home-robotics business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ecovacs-service-robots-global) (2026-10-21): From an OEM vacuum maker in Suzhou to a multi-category home-robotics brand sold in 180 cou
- [Shenzhen's AI stimulus: over RMB 1.1 billion a year in vouchers and grants for compute, data and models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-shenzhen-ai-pioneer-city) (2026-10-21): Shenzhen's "AI Pioneer City" measures hand companies annual vouchers for compute, training
- [China's first large-model standard: 3 parts, one yardstick for what "good" means](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-large-model-national-standard) (2026-10-21): The GB/T 45288 series turns "how capable is this large model" from vendor marketing into a

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