# 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 (41 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (111 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (117 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (112 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (109 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (103 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (91 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (81 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (77 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (77 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (81 articles)

## Recent articles

- [A Chinese robot now resets fractured bones without opening the patient](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-rossum-orthopedic-surgery) (2026-10-28): Beijing Rossum's intelligent orthopedic robot cleared China's NMPA for spine and long-bone
- [Hotels are quietly putting humanoid and specialized robots on the same shift](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-keenon-hotel-humanoid) (2026-10-28): KEENON's 'general + specialized' service-robot playbook is moving from trade-show demos in
- [One Chinese factory just built its 200,000th mobile robot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hikrobot-200k-amr) (2026-10-28): Hikrobot, Hikvision's mobile-robot arm, crossed 200,000 units off the line as China's AMR 
- [China's first approved rehab exoskeleton is now cheap enough for home use](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ailegs-rehab-exoskeleton) (2026-10-28): Da'ai Robot's lower-limb rehab exoskeleton has fallen from roughly ¥1M to consumer pricing
- [Zhejiang backs its AI ambitions with a 27-point plan and a ¥1-trillion industry target](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-zhejiang-ai-measures) (2026-10-28): Zhejiang Province's effective support measures aim for over ¥1 trillion in core AI revenue
- [China publishes industrial-internet and AI fusion action plan targeting 50,000 factory network upgrades by 2028](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-industrial-internet-ai-fusion) (2026-10-28): MIIT's December 2025 action plan pushes AI deeper into factory floors, setting hard 2028 t
- [China's data-rights registry opens for public comment — but it is still only a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-property-rights-draft) (2026-10-28): The National Data Administration's draft Data Property Rights Registration Guidelines clos
- [Zhou Bowen's Shanghai lab wants AI to do science, not just answer questions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-bowen-shanghai-ai-lab) (2026-10-28): Shanghai AI Laboratory director Zhou Bowen released the 'Shusheng·Duanyan' platform at WAI
- [Inside AMEC: how Yin Zhiyao turned one etching tool into a 54-product platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yin-zhiyao-amec) (2026-10-28): Founder Yin Zhiyao has grown AMEC from a single plasma etcher into a broad semiconductor-e
- [Huang Tiejun's BAAI put a Chinese large model on the cover of Nature — by refusing to copy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-huang-tiejun-baai) (2026-10-28): Under founding director Huang Tiejun, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence persi
- [Shanghai AI Lab's 8B model quietly rewrote the math on training cost](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-internlm3-open-llm) (2026-10-28): InternLM3-8B-Instruct from Shanghai AI Laboratory was trained on 4 trillion tokens and the
- [OpenAI's open weights just gave Chinese developers another local option](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-gpt-oss-open-weights) (2026-10-28): OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, released under Apache 2.0 in August 2025, are open-
- [Baidu open-sources an 8B image model that runs on a consumer GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ernie-image-open-dit) (2026-10-28): Baidu's ERNIE-Image is an open-weight, single-stream DiT text-to-image model with 8B param
- [A Chinese speech model just out-ranked Whisper on Hugging Face](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-confucius4-r2t2-speech) (2026-10-28): NetEase Youdao's open-source Confucius4-R2T2 real-time speech recognition model topped Hug
- [China's Banks Are Underwriting AI Firms on Their Token Bills](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-token-bill-credit) (2026-10-28): Chinese banks have begun pricing credit off token consumption and compute contracts, becau
- [China Added a Job-Loss Check to AI Project Approvals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-employment-check) (2026-10-28): A State Council General Office opinion puts a labour test inside AI project review and tel
- [Trip.com's AI travel assistant is quietly booking a bigger slice of every trip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tripcom-tripgenie-ai) (2026-10-28): Trip.com's TripGenie assistant drove a roughly 400% year-on-year jump in AI-driven orders 
- [Meitu turned photo filters into an AI subscription business — and the numbers are real](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meitu-ai-arpu) (2026-10-28): Meitu's H1 2026 results show AI-driven subscription and compute-point revenue turning a co
- [BYD gave away 'God's Eye' driver assistance for free — and reset China's smart-car race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-byd-gods-eye) (2026-10-28): How BYD's decision to make its 'God's Eye' advanced driver-assistance system standard acro
- [TSMC's 2nm N2 node hits full ramp as A16 backside power feeds the next AI wave](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-tsmc-n2-a16) (2026-10-28): TSMC's N2 process is now in high-volume production and its A16 backside-power node is set 
- [All three HBM4 suppliers are now in production for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sk-hynix-hbm4) (2026-10-28): NVIDIA confirmed Samsung, SK hynix and Micron are all qualified and shipping HBM4 for Vera
- [MediaTek joins NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion to build custom AI accelerators for the cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-mediatek-nvidia-asic) (2026-10-28): MediaTek will use NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion to help hyperscalers design custom XPUs, backed b
- [GigaDevice's Hong Kong listing marks a Chinese memory and MCU maker's push into edge AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-gigadevice-edge-ai-memory) (2026-10-28): GigaDevice (兆易创新) completed a Hong Kong IPO in January 2026 and is pitching Flash, MCU and
- [Hong Kong's AI listing wave holds up as 118 floats raise HK$388 billion in nine months](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-hk-ai-ipo-wave) (2026-10-28): A Citi banker told Reuters Chinese AI supply-chain IPOs should stay resilient; Hong Kong h
- [DeepSeek closes in on a US$15 billion round as CATL and Tencent lead a 100 billion yuan raise](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-deepseek-15b-round) (2026-10-28): The Hangzhou lab is wrapping up a roughly 100 billion yuan (≈US$15B) funding round at a 50
- [Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI lines up pre-IPO round ahead of a 2027 Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-01ai-hk-preipo) (2026-10-28): The Beijing lab founded by Kai-Fu Lee is raising a pre-IPO round and unwinding its offshor
- [A Shenzhen film thinner than paper is mapping the brain mid-surgery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-wizmind-flexible-electrode) (2026-10-28): WizMind (微灵医疗) builds ultra-thin flexible electrodes that help Chinese neurosurgeons locat
- [Neuralink's Telepathy implant turns thought into cursor — but the hard test is daily life](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuralink-telepathy) (2026-10-28): Since early 2024 Neuralink has implanted its N1 'Link' in a small group of paralyzed volun
- [A one-atom-thick film just met a human brain in surgery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-inbrain-graphene-bci) (2026-10-28): Spain's INBRAIN Neuroelectronics implanted the first graphene-based brain-computer interfa
- [A paralyzed woman's attempt to speak became text at 62 words per minute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-braingate-speech-bci) (2026-10-28): Two Nature papers in 2023 showed brain-computer interfaces decoding attempted speech into 
- [How TAL's MathGPT turned a learning device into an AI tutor](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tal-mathgpt-tutor) (2026-10-28): TAL Education's MathGPT (九章大模型), the first state-filed education large model (大模型), now po
- [China Merchants Bank turns its app into an AI wealth desk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-cmb-ai-wealth-assistant) (2026-10-28): CMB's AI Xiao Zhao assistant and the open-sourced Yi Zhao (一招) financial large model (大模型)
- [Inside AnZhenEr, Zhejiang's province-wide AI health companion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ant-anzhener-ai-health-assistant) (2026-10-28): A medical large model (医疗大模型) deployed across more than 2,000 Zhejiang clinics turns triag
- [A film festival in Ningbo just pulled AI creators from 30 countries — and signaled a new creative class](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ningbo-ai-film-festival) (2026-10-28): The 2026 Ningbo Youth AI Film Festival closed on October 25 with entries from 30 countries
- [LiblibAI's $130M round signals investors are betting on AI creator communities, not just models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-liblibai-creator-economy) (2026-10-28): China's largest AI image-and-video creation community closed a record $130M Series B in Oc
- [Huawei's MetaStudio is turning content production into cloud infrastructure — not just digital humans](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-huawei-metastudio-content-cloud) (2026-10-28): Huawei Cloud's MetaStudio digital-content production line packages AIGC video, multilingua
- [Beijing court's AI-art copyright ruling became a global reference point — here is what it actually decided](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-china-ai-copyright-ruling) (2026-10-28): A Beijing Internet Court decision that an image created with AI, reflecting human intellec
- [Yang Zhilin's Moonshot goes open-weight with Kimi K2 after a $2B round](https://neuroai.site/a/na-yang-zhilin-moonshot-kimi) (2026-10-27): How Tsinghua-trained researcher Yang Zhilin built Moonshot AI on long context and then piv
- [Wang Xingxing's Unitree turns humanoid robots into a shipped product](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wang-xingxing-unitree-robotics) (2026-10-27): How a 1990-born engineer built Unitree from a one-man workshop into a humanoid-robot maker
- [Unitree's RMB 694m C-round values humanoid robot maker at US$1.8bn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-unitree-c-round) (2026-10-27): Unitree (宇树科技) closed a RMB 694m (≈US$97m) C-round in June 2025 at a ~US$1.8bn valuation, 
- [Tencent's AI push lifts H1 revenue past ¥364B as capex triples](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tencent-h1-2025-ai-capex-payoff) (2026-10-27): Tencent reported H1 2025 revenue of 364.5 billion yuan (≈US$50.3B) with net profit up 16%,
- [SMIC stretches DUV lithography to 7nm and eyes 5nm without EUV](https://neuroai.site/a/na-smic-7nm-duv-foundry-ai) (2026-10-27): China's largest foundry is mass-producing 7nm-class chips with only DUV tools, becoming th
- [China's grid operator just put robot dogs on the world's largest utility shopping list](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-stategrid-embodied-procurement) (2026-10-27): State Grid's 2026 embodied-intelligence plan calls for about 8,500 robots worth ~¥6.8B, le
- [A robot-run hotel is opening on a bridge island between Shenzhen and Zhongshan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-pudu-fullscenario-hotel) (2026-10-27): Pudu Robotics and Shenzhen CTID will open the world's first full-scenario robot-serviced h
- [The invisible Beijing factory building humanoid robots for a dozen rival brands](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-lingyi-beijing-superfactory) (2026-10-27): Lingyi Precision's Beijing embodied-intelligence super-factory rolled out its first humano
- [One surgical robot now does multi-port, single-port and remote surgery on a single platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-edge-medical-threeinone-platform) (2026-10-27): Edge Medical's integrated multi-port, single-port and remote surgical platform won NMPA ap
- [Qwen3 ships hybrid thinking and eight open-weight models at once](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen3-hybrid-reasoning-open-weights) (2026-10-27): Alibaba's Qwen3 family pairs thinking and non-thinking modes across two MoE and six dense 
- [Alibaba's Qwen-Image goes open-source, targeting the text-in-images weakness](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen-image-open-source) (2026-10-27): Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image (通义万相), a 20B image model under Apache-2.0, wi
- [China publishes its first AI standards for the steel industry — three of them, all non-binding](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-steel-ai-standards) (2026-10-27): SAMR published three guidance standards (GB/Z 224, 231, 241—2026) for AI in steel — scenar
- [Jiangsu hands out three AI vouchers — token, corpus and model — up to ¥5M per firm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-jiangsu-ai-vouchers) (2026-10-27): Jiangsu's five departments launched token, corpus and model vouchers to cut AI costs; a si
- [China's foundational internet law grows an AI chapter — still a draft, not yet law](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-internet-info-law-ai-draft) (2026-10-27): Beijing reopened its 2000 internet rulebook for comment, adding a first-ever 'smart inform
- [China's compliance-audit rule makes personal-data checks a recurring duty](https://neuroai.site/a/na-personal-info-compliance-audit-rules) (2026-10-27): CAC Order No. 18, effective May 1, 2025, requires large personal-information handlers to a
- [A 15-year investor raises China's largest AI fund of 2026](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-mi-qun-glventures) (2026-10-27): Michael Mi's GL Ventures closed a dual-currency fund above 5 billion yuan in April 2026—th
- [Ex-Qwen chief builds a $2B agent lab before shipping a product](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-junyang-lin-pragmatik) (2026-10-27): Lin Junyang left Alibaba's Qwen team in March and, five months later, launched Pragmatik L
- [A math professor and a Chinese model close a 30-year conjecture](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-disheng-xu-ghys) (2026-10-27): Disheng Xu's team at Greater Bay University used Shanghai AI Lab's Shusheng-S2 model to pr
- [Peng Zhihui's AgiBot bets on open-source humanoids and a robot data engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-peng-zhihui-agibot-embodied-ai) (2026-10-27): How Huawei 'Genius Youth' Peng Zhihui built AgiBot around open hardware, a foundation mode
- [A 19-year-old played Black Myth: Wukong with his thoughts alone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuroxess-mind-controlled-games-chinese) (2026-10-27): Shanghai's NeuroXess used a 256-channel flexible implant to let an epilepsy patient play A
- [NEO becomes the world's first approved invasive brain-computer interface](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuracle-neo-world-first-invasive-bci-ap) (2026-10-27): China's NMPA cleared Neuracle's NEO, the first invasive BCI medical device approved anywhe
- [China's Network Data Security Regulations extend rules to AI training data](https://neuroai.site/a/na-network-data-security-regulations) (2026-10-27): State Council Order No. 790, in force since Jan 1, 2025, governs network data handling and
- [China's US$8.4bn national AI fund starts deploying into models and chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-national-ai-fund) (2026-10-27): The RMB 60.06bn (≈US$8.4bn) National AI Industry Investment Fund, set up in January 2025, 
- [Volcano Engine splits model access into four tiers with steep off-peak discounts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-volcengine-ark-tiered-pricing) (2026-10-27): ByteDance's Volcano Engine now sells model access in four subscription tiers and discounts
- [Ant Group's Ming-Omni folds text, image, audio and video into one open model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ming-omni-multimodal) (2026-10-27): Ant Group's inclusionAI has open-sourced Ming-Omni, a unified model that handles text, ima
- [Kimi K3.1 Pro puts a 3-trillion-parameter open-weight model within three points of the frontier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k31-pro-open) (2026-10-27): Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro reaches 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the 
- [A Chinese research model helped prove a 30-year-old math conjecture](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-intern-s2-ghys-math) (2026-10-27): Shanghai AI Lab's Intern-S2 worked with mathematicians to resolve Ghys's conjecture in com
- [MiniMax lands Hong Kong IPO at top of range, raising HK$4.8bn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-hong-kong-ipo) (2026-10-27): MiniMax (稀宇科技) debuted on HKEX at HK$165, valuing the four-year-old AI lab above HK$100bn 
- [A professor-led Shenzhen lab became a humanoid unicorn on motion control alone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-limx-dynamics-b-round) (2026-10-27): LimX Dynamics' $200 million round shows investors will pay for walking algorithms, not jus
- [Kuaishou's Kling AI hits US$240M run-rate on text-to-video demand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kling-ai-revenue-run-rate) (2026-10-27): Kling AI (可灵) reported RMB 340M Q4 2025 revenue and a US$240M annual run-rate, showing Chi
- [Kimi K2: Moonshot open-sources a 1-trillion-parameter agent model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kimi-k2-open-agent-model) (2026-10-27): Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1T-parameter open-weight MoE tuned for tool use, and it qu
- [China's biggest retailer is quietly running robot warehouses and driverless delivery vans](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jd-logistics-robots) (2026-10-27): JD Logistics' "wolf" robot fleet and autonomous vehicles moved the country's 180-billionth
- [Huawei's Ascend 910C bets on cluster scale over single-chip speed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-huawei-ascend-910c-cluster-scale) (2026-10-27): With export controls capping single-chip performance, Huawei is wiring hundreds of Ascend 
- [HeyGen's digital humans hit ~US$100M run-rate on the back of 175 languages](https://neuroai.site/a/na-heygen-digital-humans) (2026-10-27): HeyGen, a China-rooted digital human (数字人) video platform, reported roughly US$100M ARR in
- [GLM-4.5 unifies reasoning, coding, and agent skills in one open model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-glm-4-5-agent-native-open-model) (2026-10-27): Zhipu's GLM-4.5 open-weights MoE folds reasoning, coding, and tool use into a single agent
- [A Shenzhen humanoid taught itself to walk like a person, then flipped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-engineai-se01-front-flip) (2026-10-27): EngineAI's SE01 turned a natural gait and a front flip into a funding surge led by JD.com.
- [DeepSeek-R1 proved open weights could reason like o1](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-r1-open-reasoning-model) (2026-10-27): Released January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 matched OpenAI's o1 on math and code under an MIT licen
- [China Built a State Company to Sell AI Its Raw Material](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-state-data-group) (2026-10-27): China's state data company is meant to turn scattered official records into datasets AI la
- [China's AI-for-Science Push Is Public Infrastructure, Not a Better Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-for-science-labs) (2026-10-27): Provincial platforms, robotic labs and new standards show where China's science-AI money g
- [CXMT races to mass-produce HBM3 and close China's memory gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-cxmt-hbm3-domestic-memory) (2026-10-27): Long a DRAM also-ran, ChangXin Memory is sampling HBM3 to Huawei and prepping mass product
- [Kingsoft Cloud turns its cloud into an agent (智能体) factory with AgentKit](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kingsoft-cloud-agentkit) (2026-10-27): Kingsoft Cloud posted record Q2 revenue and launched AgentKit, a one-stop base to move ent
- [A carmaker enters the home: Chery's Mojia unveils 0.9-meter companion robot Mobao (墨宝)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-chery-mojia-mobao) (2026-10-27): On Oct 21, Chery's Mojia Robot launched Mobao (墨宝), a 0.9-meter home companion humanoid (人
- [Ant Group merges three units into one Alipay team to bet on agentic (智能体) commerce](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-ant-alipay-reorg) (2026-10-27): On Sept 21, Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi folded Alipay's payment, business and credit arms into

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