# 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 (53 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (135 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (145 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (140 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (137 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (135 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (114 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (102 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (96 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (97 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (102 articles)

## Recent articles

- [At under US$16,000, China's Unitree G1 puts a humanoid in every lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-g1-global-dev) (2026-11-04): Unitree's G1 turned the humanoid from a six-figure showcase into a sub-US$16,000 developer
- [China's Walker S2 humanoid swaps its own battery in 3 minutes — and never stops working](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s2-autoswap) (2026-11-04): UBTECH's Walker S2 solves the robot-shift problem with a hot-swappable dual-battery system
- [Neolix has put 10,000 driverless delivery vans on the road — and just raised US$600M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-autonomous-delivery) (2026-11-04): Neolix, the Beijing robovan maker, claims the world's largest L4 autonomous-delivery fleet
- [From rehab beds to humanoids: Fourier's GR-2 bets that caregiving is the real market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-gr2-healthcare-bridge) (2026-11-04): Fourier Intelligence, built on rehabilitation robotics, is steering its GR-2 humanoid and 
- [China coded its AI safety baseline into national standards — training data, models, and oversight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-baseline-standard) (2026-11-04): A 2023 draft guidance for generative-AI safety became an adopted national standard in 2025
- [China has passed zero unified AI laws — and the flagship bill is still just a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-law-draft-stage) (2026-11-04): Despite years on the legislative calendar, China's comprehensive Artificial Intelligence L
- [China mandates dual labels on AI-made content: visible marks and invisible watermarks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-11-04): A four-agency rule now forces Chinese AI tools to tag their own output with both on-screen
- [Wang Haifeng built the stack under Baidu's search box — and China's first open deep-learning platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-haifeng-baidu) (2026-11-04): How Wang Haifeng (王海峰), Baidu's CTO, turned language research into PaddlePaddle (飞桨) and t
- [Wang Changhu bet on text-to-video at PixVerse — and reached 100 million users before most rivals shipped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-changhu-pixverse) (2026-11-04): How a former ByteDance visual-technology chief turned a Douyin-era labeling playbook into 
- [Chen Tianshi bet on a chip built only for neural networks — and shipped it in a phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianshi-cambricon) (2026-11-04): How Chen Tianshi (陈天石) co-founded Cambricon (寒武纪) with his brother and pushed the 'deep le
- [355B params, MIT license: how Zhipu's GLM-4.5 bundles reasoning, code, and agents in one model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm45-open-agent) (2026-11-04): Zhipu's GLM-4.5 is an open-weight MoE that tries to fuse reasoning, coding, and agentic to
- [Eight sizes, one license: how Alibaba's Qwen3 turned open weights into a deployment ladder](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-open-family) (2026-11-04): Alibaba's Qwen3 family ships in eight open-weight configurations — from a 0.6B model for a
- [1 trillion parameters, 32B active: how Moonshot's Kimi K2 made frontier scale downloadable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k2-open-trillion) (2026-11-04): Moonshot's Kimi K2 is an open-weight trillion-parameter MoE that activates just 32B tokens
- [1,800 environments, 85,000 instructions: how DeepSeek-V3.2 taught models to think while using tools](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v32-agent-tools) (2026-11-04): DeepSeek-V3.2 is the lab's first model to fold chain-of-thought reasoning directly into to
- [Tencent's record US$11 billion capex backs a Yuanbao-and-Hunyuan AI push](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-yuanbao-hunyuan-agentic) (2026-11-04): Tencent is turning its Yuanbao app into an AI flagship and opening up the Hunyuan model fa
- [Meituan's LongCat models and 780,000 drone deliveries redraw the retail-AI line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meituan-longcat-drone) (2026-11-04): Meituan is pairing open-source LongCat large models with a physical delivery network — 70 
- [Alibaba's US$53 billion AI-cloud plan makes Qwen the centerpiece](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-380bn-ai-cloud) (2026-11-04): Alibaba is committing ¥380 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure over three years while p
- [SMIC clears a profit line on N+2 as advanced-node capacity nears 40k wafers a month](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-n-plus-2) (2026-11-04): China's flagship foundry posted a record US$3.0B quarter and, by one sell-side estimate, w
- [Huawei's Ascend split: 910C ships now, 950 scales, 960/970 wait](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-ascend-layers) (2026-11-04): Huawei has moved the Ascend 950 supernode from roadmap to launch while the 910C stays its 
- [Eoptolink's sales surge 178% as 800G and 1.6T modules feed the AI buildout](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eoptolink-ai-optical) (2026-11-04): The Suzhou maker of optical transceivers posted nine-month revenue of ¥69.5B (≈ US$9.7B) a
- [Cambricon books ¥3.7B profit as inventory bet balloons to ¥11.7B](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-profit-turn) (2026-11-04): China's leading domestic AI accelerator designer swung to a nine-month net profit of ¥3.7B
- [Hong Kong gets its first LiDAR stock as RoboSense raises US$126M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-robosense-hk-ipo) (2026-11-04): Shenzhen's RoboSense, a supplier of LiDAR (激光雷达) and perception software, debuted on the H
- [Dobot's US$87M Hong Kong listing makes the collaborative robot arm a public asset](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-dobot-hk-ipo) (2026-11-04): Shenzhen's Dobot became the first Chinese collaborative-robot maker to list in Hong Kong, 
- [Axera lists in Hong Kong as China's first edge-AI chip stock, valued near US$1.5 billion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-axera-hk-ipo) (2026-11-04): Axera (爱芯元智), an on-device AI inference-chip designer, passed its HKEX hearing in January 
- [256 channels, 10 microns: how flexible surface electrodes redo the brain-computer math](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-flexible-electrode-dense-recording) (2026-11-04): China's NeuroXess (脑虎科技) is betting that dense, soft, cortex-surface electrode arrays — no
- [From 730 seizures a month to zero: China's first homegrown epilepsy brain implant, and the regulator's last step](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-epilepsy-responsive-neurostimulati) (2026-11-04): GenLight Neurotech's (佳量脑科学) Epilcure™ is China's first domestically developed closed-loop
- [Asia's first seizure-stopping implant: inside China's Epilcure epilepsy neurostimulator](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-epilcure-epilepsy-rns) (2026-11-04): Jialiang Medical's (佳量医疗) Epilcure is a closed-loop, implantable brain-computer interface 
- [43% smaller, sense-capable: China's new brain pacemaker and the closed-loop gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-closed-loop-dbs-parkinson) (2026-11-04): PINS Medical's (品驰医疗) G108R 'super brain pacemaker' can record brain signals while it stim
- [Two workers, 3,000 mu of cotton — and a model now spread across 2 million mu in Xinjiang](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-smart-cotton-farm) (2026-11-04): XAG's unmanned 'super cotton field' in Yuli County proved two people can run 3,000 mu, and
- [iFlytek's 'Hear the Voice of AI' gave China's deaf users 200 million free transcription minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-iflytek-deaf-ai-captions) (2026-11-04): Seven years in, iFlytek's 听见AI的声音 program has turned real-time speech-to-text into a free 
- [Inside China's AI eye-screening rollout: 8,599 service points and a backpack-sized camera](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-airdoc-fundus-screening) (2026-11-04): Airdoc's portable AI fundus camera, cleared by China's NMPA, now runs across 8,599 service
- [VAST scales Tripo 3.0 to 20 billion parameters, chasing 3D assets that drop straight into production](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tripo-open-3d) (2026-11-04): VAST's Tripo (三启万物) pushed its 3D-generation model to 20 billion parameters with Tripo 3.0
- [ByteDance's Seedance goes audible: one model now writes the picture and the soundtrack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedance-audiovisual-video) (2026-11-04): ByteDance's Seedance (字节跳动) moved from silent clips to synchronized audio-visual generatio
- [Mureka V8 tops global music benchmarks as Kunlun bets on 'reason first, then compose](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-mureka-music-reasoning) (2026-11-04): Kunlun Tech's Mureka (昆仑万维) reached the top of Artificial Analysis' music leaderboards wit
- [Kling AI crosses US$240M run-rate as Kuaishou turns a video toy into creative infrastructure](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-video-infrastructure) (2026-11-04): Kuaishou's Kling AI (可灵AI) reached a US$240M annual run-rate by December 2025 on the back 
- [A robot startup claimed RMB 1 billion in orders. Six months later the wages stopped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-wujing-future-collapse) (2026-11-03): A Nanjing quadruped maker claimed big orders in June, stopped paying wages in August, and 
- [China's newest sorting hub can move 10 million parcels a day. The robots were the easy part](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-parcel-hubs-sorting-automation) (2026-11-03): J&T's Jieyang hub can move 10 million parcels a day on cross-belt sorters and six-sided sc
- [A cover-glass plant in Kunshan now builds 100 humanoids a day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-lens-kunshan-humanoid-assembly) (2026-11-03): Lens Technology went from an empty floor to 100 humanoids a day in six weeks, assembling Q
- [AgiBot shipped 9,700 humanoids, then changed how it counts them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-paid-hours-economics) (2026-11-03): AgiBot shipped 9,700 robots in the first half on 2 billion yuan of revenue. Its metric Wor
- [Guangzhou's AI ordinance passed the city legislature. Now it waits for the province](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-guangzhou-ai-ordinance) (2026-11-03): Guangzhou's AI promotion ordinance cleared its third reading but still needs provincial ap
- [China's AI filing register has an exit door. Almost nobody watches it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-algorithm-filing-revocation) (2026-11-03): China's cyberspace regulator publishes filing cancellations beside new filings: 1,112 serv
- [China moved 39 AI documents in a single day. Almost none of them are rules](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-standards-guidance-documents) (2026-11-03): Market regulators approved 60 national guidance documents at once, 39 AI-titled. Most carr
- [Yang You's Colossal-AI passed 41,000 GitHub stars and a Series B: the optimizer king bets on diffusion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-you-colossal-ai) (2026-11-03): The NUS professor who invented LARS and LAMB turned his research into a company; his new G
- [Biren CTO Hong Zhou spent 30 years on GPU architecture. His answer to peak FLOPS is a 1,024-card supernode](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-hong-zhou-biren-gpu) (2026-11-03): Biren CTO Hong Zhou explains why delivered compute, not peak FLOPS, is the metric that mat
- [A robot in 2.5 square metres: Cewu Lu's Noematrix bets on data diversity, not data hours](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-cewu-lu-noematrix) (2026-11-03): The co-founder of Noematrix (穹彻智能) argues robot-training hours matter less than data diver
- [MiniMax says an agent task got 70% cheaper. The 17.9% gross margin is the hard part](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-m31-flash-task-economics) (2026-11-03): MiniMax priced M3.1 Flash at 1 yuan per million input tokens and says agent tasks cost 70%
- [A 9B model that runs 56 layers: SenseTime's looped release and its two parameter counts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-loop-9b-two-parameter-counts) (2026-11-03): SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview stores 32 decoder layers but executes them 56 times, so its card
- [Baidu's OCR read all seven Harry Potter books in one pass. The trick was to stop re-reading](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-ocr-unlimited-pages) (2026-11-03): Baidu's open-weight Unlimited OCR 2 parses 3,600 pages without chunking, by capping how mu
- [The 60-millisecond sandbox: why agent models are now trained inside the thing that runs them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-agent-sandbox-60ms) (2026-11-03): Tencent Cloud rebuilt its agent sandbox around snapshot and resume, and uses it to post-tr
- [China Is Putting AI Compute in Orbit. The Business Is Still Satellites](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-orbital-compute-order-book) (2026-11-03): Shanghai wants 3,000 satellites by 2030, but the Hong Kong-bound contender earns thin hard
- [China Built a Policy Category for Companies of One. It Has Targets, Not a Denominator](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-opc-policy-category) (2026-11-03): Seven ministries endorsed the AI one-person company in June. Provinces now compete on targ
- [China Standardised How to Measure Compute. Now Comes the Hard Part](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-compute-measurement-standard) (2026-11-03): Three national standards on measuring, describing and specifying distributed computing too
- [China's AI Copyright Rule Is Being Written Case by Case. The Test Is Human Control](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-copyright-case-law) (2026-11-03): A Supreme People's Court opinion set the test for works made with AI; two first-instance r
- [Chinese tech is trimming headcount quietly, and token counts have become a performance metric](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-china-quiet-ai-layoffs) (2026-11-03): Chinese employers are cutting small numbers of jobs through attrition, ranking staff by AI
- [ByteDance gave AI safety its own reporting line, and put 10 roles on the job board](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-seed-alignment-dept) (2026-11-03): ByteDance's Seed unit gave safety its own department under the model chief, then opened 10
- [Alibaba split its reporting in two, and the AI losses finally got their own line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-ai-segment-recut) (2026-11-03): Alibaba's new segment structure puts chips, cloud and models on one side and consumer AI o
- [CXMT earned an 89.5% gross margin in a quarter. Even Huawei could not get a discount](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-margin-memory-pricing) (2026-11-03): CXMT's third-quarter gross margin hit 89.53% as DRAM stayed short. The company that once c
- [China's energy regulator expects AI to add 100 TWh a year. Most of it must be built](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-compute-power-green-direct-connect) (2026-11-03): The NEA expects compute to add 100 TWh of demand every year to 2030, and only 12 compute p
- [A Chinese bank is running 384 domestic AI chips in production, at just over a megawatt](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-bank-ascend-supernode-production) (2026-11-03): Industrial Bank switched on a 384-card Ascend supernode in Fuzhou for live banking work — 
- [ASML says its 2027 and 2028 output will fall short. China's share of its sales has halved](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-asml-lithography-order-queue) (2026-11-03): China was 23% of ASML's third-quarter system sales, down from 42% a year earlier, as the t
- [Two small acquisitions show where China's AI supply chain is actually being bought](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ma-optical-coupling-laminate) (2026-11-03): A laser-equipment maker bought an optical-module coupling supplier for RMB 400 million; a 
- [Dongshan's Hong Kong IPO cleared on cornerstones alone, with retail at 0.52 times](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-dongshan-hk-ipo) (2026-11-03): Dongshan Precision priced its Hong Kong IPO 7.5% below range; the retail tranche covered 0
- [Denglin Technology's Hong Kong GPGPU IPO: A Third-Place, 1%-Share Chipmaker Prices at HK$231-288](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-denglin-gpgpu-ipo) (2026-11-03): Suzhou chip designer Denglin Technology lists on Hong Kong's Chapter 18C (第18C章) un-commer
- [A construction SOE and VNET set up a RMB 5 billion AI data-centre fund — and built the exit around REITs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-aidc-fund-reits-exit) (2026-11-03): Hunan Construction Investment and VNET filed a RMB 5 billion AIDC and green-power fund wit
- [China's Coma Trial Used Sound, Not Electrodes. Thirteen of 24 Responded.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-ultrasound-coma-awakening) (2026-11-03): A Shenzhen team reported that 13 of 24 patients with chronic disorders of consciousness im
- [A Locked-In Patient Moved His Own Hand. The Implant Was Not Trying to Replace It.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-locked-in-syndrome-neural-repair) (2026-11-03): A Shenzhen company reported what it calls China's first implanted brain interface in a loc
- [Hangzhou Wrote Rules for Brain Data. They Are Not Law.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-hangzhou-neural-data-guidance) (2026-11-03): A Hangzhou guide sets five security tiers for brain data and requires consent before monet
- [China Put One Implant Connector on Its National Science Agenda](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-feedthrough-bottleneck) (2026-11-03): A national project now targets one part of an implantable brain interface: the hermetic fe
- [Wuhan put 750 AI devices into care homes. The rescue numbers are what officials watch](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-wuhan-eldercare-ai-devices) (2026-11-03): Eldercare AI in Wuhan is measured in emergency calls answered and beds fitted with sensors
- [2,000 workers became 20. On this rice farm, the tractors came last.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-unmanned-rice-farm-guangdong) (2026-11-03): Guangdong's 5,300-mu Wanlü farm reports a 50-fold efficiency gain with 20 staff. The harde
- [Jiangsu's AI clerks now write the paperwork. The knowledge base is the hard part](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-jiangsu-government-ai-clerks) (2026-11-03): Government halls in Jiangsu are fielding large-model clerks that can draft decisions, not 
- [Hangzhou airport's AI hotline now takes a third of the calls, and complaints fell a fifth](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-hangzhou-airport-ai-hotline) (2026-11-03): Hangzhou Xiaoshan's 96299 line became China's first large-model airline call centre. The m
- [AI imaging finally has a price code: how China unblocked hospital AI without raising a single bill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-imaging-price-code) (2026-11-03): China's medical insurance authority put AI diagnostic software into the price list as an e
- [Ten seconds of sound in a quarter second — and the licence that says you cannot sell it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-noiz-spatial-audio) (2026-11-03): A Chinese team with HKUST and Tsinghua built an anything-to-audio model that renders ten s
- [Ninety projects share one animation pipeline, and the boring half of the job is disappearing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-motus-animation-pipeline) (2026-11-03): Tencent's Motus AI animation pipeline is wired into more than 90 internal and external pro
- [One Chinese short drama, ten languages, and a bill under a thousand dollars: the localization floor](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-microdrama-localization-cost) (2026-11-03): AI redraw pipelines now localize a finished Chinese short drama (短剧) for about US$840, whi
- [Chinese Online cut operating costs by a third. Revenue fell 18% anyway](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-microdrama-cost-cut-revenue) (2026-11-03): Three Chinese microdrama exporters reported the same quarter. One cut operating costs by a
- [China pulled a mini-program offline. The label it lacked was inside the file](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-label-metadata-enforcement) (2026-11-03): The visible watermark was the easy half. Enforcement in China now runs on the metadata ins
- [JD's digital hosts streamed 9 million hours and sold US$20 of goods an hour](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-jd-digital-human-hour-economics) (2026-11-03): JD's digital presenters logged nine million hours for 100,000 merchants in the Double 11 b
- [Blue Moon's 20-episode cartoon pulled 45 million views, and 89% stayed inside a shop](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-blue-moon-brand-comic-drama) (2026-11-03): A Hong Kong-listed detergent brand commissioned a 20-episode machine-made comic-drama. Thi

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