# 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 (27 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (75 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (81 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (76 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (73 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (68 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (64 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (54 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (52 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (50 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (54 articles)

## Recent articles

- [China's underwater robots are quietly mapping the seafloor — and landing energy contracts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-underwater-robots-china) (2026-10-19): From Shenzhen's QYSEA (鳍源科技) to Tianjin's Deepinfar (深之蓝), Chinese underwater ROVs and AUV
- [The company that gave self-driving cars their 'eyes' is now giving them to robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-robosense-robotics-vision) (2026-10-19): RoboSense (速腾聚创), the Shenzhen LiDAR maker that listed in Hong Kong as the world's top-val
- [An appliance giant paid €3.7B for a German robot firm — now it's building its own](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-midea-kuka-robotics) (2026-10-19): Midea (美的) bought German robot-maker KUKA in 2017 for about €3.7B and took it private in 2
- [Chinese robot vacuums quietly took over the world — and most buyers have no idea](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-home-robots-go-global) (2026-10-19): Ecovacs (科沃斯) and Roborock (石头科技) turned a once-quirky gadget into a global category, with
- [China's new data security rule puts AI training data in the crosshairs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-network-data-security-reg) (2026-10-19): The Network Data Security Management Regulations (网络数据安全管理条例), effective January 1, 2025, 
- [China just banned facial recognition as your only way in](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-face-recognition-rules) (2026-10-19): Beijing's new Measures for the Security Management of Facial Recognition Technology (人脸识别技
- [China just put data on the corporate balance sheet — and AI is the quiet winner](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-asset-accounting) (2026-10-19): The Ministry of Finance's Interim Provisions on Accounting Treatment for Enterprise Data R
- [The "token factory" founder — Yuan Jinhui and the unglamorous middle layer of AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yuan-jinhui-siliconflow) (2026-10-19): After his first startup was acquired, Yuan Jinhui rebuilt as SiliconFlow, a neutral infere
- [The only Chinese Turing laureate — how Yao Qizhi bet on talent over trophies](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yao-qizhi-turing) (2026-10-19): Yao Qizhi won computing's top prize in 2000, then quit Princeton to teach undergraduates i
- [The outsider who built Alibaba's cloud — Wang Jian's bet on computing as a utility](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-jian-apsara) (2026-10-19): A psychology PhD with no data-center background persuaded Alibaba to build its own cloud o
- [Zhipu's GLM-4.6 makes open-weight coding agents run on domestic chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm46-coding-agent) (2026-10-19): Zhipu's GLM-4.6 open-weight model extends context to 200K tokens and pairs coding ability 
- [Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 takes AI video to 30 seconds and 10-bit HDR](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kuaishou-kling40-video-model) (2026-10-19): Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 (可灵 4.0), launched Oct 15 2026, extends native generation to 30 secon
- [Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 deploys 100 sub-agents on one task — the agent-swarm bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k25-agent-swarm) (2026-10-19): Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 (released Jan 27 2026) pairs native multimodal understanding with 
- [Tencent's Hunyuan Hy3 topped OpenRouter in a week — a quiet bet on useful AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuan-hy3-agent-moe) (2026-10-19): Tencent's open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 (混元 Hy3) reached the top of OpenRouter's global usage ch
- [Why China Gives Away Its Best Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-why-china-open-weights) (2026-10-19): Chinese labs give away frontier models under permissive licences on purpose, buying distri
- [140 Trillion Tokens a Day: The Price War China Already Ended](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-token-economy-price-war) (2026-10-19): China's token price war ended because demand exploded and supply got expensive, splitting 
- [China's Robots Are Being Designed for Its Grandparents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-robots-aging-china) (2026-10-19): Demography, not fashion, is pulling Chinese robots toward care work, but certification and
- [China Put 'Humanoid Robot Technician' on Its Official Job List](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-robot-technician-jobs) (2026-10-19): Beijing now lists robot commissioning and agent operation as formal occupations, while uni
- [Why Beijing Regulates the Algorithm but Not the Ambition](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-regulate-without-slowing) (2026-10-19): China's AI rules target distribution and human-machine relationships, not model capability
- [How to Read a Chinese Model Card Without Being Fooled](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-read-model-card) (2026-10-19): A Chinese model card is a marketing document with real engineering inside. Read the harnes
- [Beyond the Fab: China's Slow Build in Packaging and EDA](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-packaging-eda-long-game) (2026-10-19): China's chip plan is a stack plan of chiplets, packaging and tools, and its progress is re
- [The Microdrama Pipeline Is China's Most Successful AI Export](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-microdrama-pipeline) (2026-10-19): A live-action season at US$300,000 now has a synthetic equivalent at US$10,000–20,000, and
- [Who Pays for China's AI Boom? Follow the Local Government Money](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-local-government-ai-funds) (2026-10-19): The most active investor in Chinese AI is a city government. Tournament-style mother funds
- [The Factory Floor Is Where China's AI Case Gets Real](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-lighthouse-factory-roi) (2026-10-19): Fifteen Chinese plants report 29% efficiency gains and 47% fewer defects, and what the pro
- [China's Chips Are Built to Serve, Not to Train](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-inference-first) (2026-10-19): Chinese accelerators are shaped for serving tokens rather than training frontier models, a
- [Humanoids Went to Work in China First. That's the Whole Strategy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-humanoids-factory-first) (2026-10-19): China's humanoid push targets factories, labs and training centres rather than living room
- [How to Read China's AI Numbers Without Being Fooled](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-how-to-read-china-numbers) (2026-10-19): Most headline figures on Chinese AI measure capacity, shipments or downloads, and four que
- [The Real Chip Shortage Is Memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-hbm-bottleneck) (2026-10-19): Stacked memory, not the logic die, is what caps China's AI chip output, and that is why ac
- [The Grey Market That Keeps China's AI Running](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-grey-compute-market) (2026-10-19): Export controls built a parallel chip market with a premium and a compliance risk, and its
- [China's AI Is Going Abroad Differently: Capability, Not Products](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-going-global-gulf-asean) (2026-10-19): Chinese AI exports are cloud regions, sovereign models and robots on order rather than app
- [The Hidden Industry Behind China's Robots: People Paid to Teach Them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-embodied-data) (2026-10-19): The scarce input in embodied AI is recorded human motion, not hardware, and China is build
- [The Distillation Debate: What Chinese Labs Actually Learned](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-distillation-question) (2026-10-19): Distillation allegations are partly true and mostly a distraction. China's real edge is po
- [The Consumer Detour in Chinese Neurotech](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-consumer-neurotech) (2026-10-19): Consumer EEG in China sells hardware and attention rather than medicine, and the gap with 
- [China Is Building AI Like a Power Grid. The Bill Is 7 Trillion Yuan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-compute-grid-utility) (2026-10-19): China plans compute as public infrastructure, and the binding constraint is electricity an
- [China's AI Builders Spent US$20 Billion in a Quarter. The Depreciation Hasn't Arrived Yet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-capex-depreciation-bill) (2026-10-19): Three Chinese cloud giants spent about US$20bn on capex in one quarter while burning cash.
- [What China's BCI Approval Actually Proved](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-bci-regulatory-shortcut) (2026-10-19): NEO's clearance was a regulatory design win more than a technical leap, and payment, durab
- [Huawei Has Half of China's AI Chip Market — and About 1% of Nvidia's Compute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ascend-50-percent) (2026-10-19): Huawei's Ascend holds about half of China's accelerator market, but on total compute it tr
- [China Writes the Rule Before It Writes the Law](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-rules-before-law) (2026-10-19): China governs AI through technical standards that move faster than statutes and become the
- [China's 'AI Plus' Is Not a Slogan. Here's What It Actually Changes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-plus-what-changes) (2026-10-19): AI Plus is a procurement and adoption programme with dated usage targets, so the numbers t
- [AI Is Already in Chinese Hospitals. The Bill Is the Experiment](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-hospitals-reimbursement) (2026-10-19): China has approved more than 110 clinical AI products, but payment is the missing piece an
- [China's Agent Advantage Is Not the Model. It's the App](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-agents-super-app) (2026-10-19): Chinese agents scale because super-apps already supply identity, payments, a service catal
- [Tencent's AI Agent Security Gateway puts one lock on every model, tool, and API call](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-agent-security-gateway) (2026-10-19): Tencent Cloud has shipped an AI Agent Security Gateway that funnels every large-model call
- [China Telecom's Xing4.0 runs a 29-billion-parameter AI agent on a single gaming GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-china-telecom-xingchen) (2026-10-19): China Telecom has open-sourced Xing4.0-29B-A4B, a lightweight "agent" large model (大模型) tr
- [Alibaba Cloud rebuilds its stack so AI agents can plan, act, and remember](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-agentic-cloud) (2026-10-19): At its 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba Cloud laid out an "Agentic Cloud" strategy — AgentC
- [China's photoresist gap: why 95% of advanced chip 'ink' still comes from Japan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-photoresist-materials-gap) (2026-10-19): Photoresist is the light-sensitive chemical that prints every circuit onto a wafer. China 
- [China's mature-node land grab: from 30% to 39% of global capacity by 2027](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-mature-node-capacity) (2026-10-19): While the world fixates on cutting-edge chips, China is quietly stacking capacity in the o
- [China's gallium nitride bet: how a Suzhou firm became the world's top GaN power-chip maker](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-gan-power-innoscience) (2026-10-19): Innoscience (英诺赛科) went from a 2017 startup to the world's leading gallium nitride (氮化镓, G
- [China's auto-chip push: how a 2021 shortage became a 25% local-content mandate](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-auto-mcu-localization) (2026-10-19): After the 2021 chip shortage exposed how few of a car's microcontrollers were made at home
- [China's 'Palantir' listed in Hong Kong at a HK$10.5B valuation — the quiet bet on AI that decides, not chats](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-wenge-decision-ai-hk-ipo) (2026-10-19): Beijing Wenge, an enterprise decision-intelligence firm spun out of the Chinese Academy of
- [A Chinese 'world model' startup pulled US$455M in a single Pre-A round — why investors bet on robots that understand physics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-taishi-zhihang-world-model-prea) (2026-10-19): Taishi Zhihang, a Beijing embodied-intelligence startup founded in early 2025, closed a US
- [A Tsinghua-spinoff teaching robots to 'think' hit a US$2.8B valuation — and is eyeing Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-star-era-embodied-valuation) (2026-10-19): Star Era AI, a Beijing embodied-intelligence startup founded in 2023 by ex-Waymo and Tsing
- [China's TMS robots now aim the magnet at the brain themselves](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-tms-robot-depression) (2026-10-19): Two STAR Market-listed Chinese device makers have shipped AI-navigated transcranial magnet
- [Cameras, not scalpels: China is turning Parkinson's tremors into data](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-parkinson-ai-gait) (2026-10-19): A Wuhan startup's camera-based AI grades Parkinson's motor symptoms in three minutes, join
- [China is screening autism with a camera and an AI — in under five minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-autism-ai-screening) (2026-10-19): A Chinese academy-built AI agent and eye-tracking tool can flag autism spectrum disorder i
- [A drop of blood is now enough to flag Alzheimer's in China — years before symptoms](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-alzheimer-blood-biomarker) (2026-10-19): Chinese regulators have cleared ultra-sensitive blood tests for Alzheimer's core biomarker
- [Two drones now watch over a million solar panels in China's deserts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-solar-panel-drone-inspection) (2026-10-19): At a State Power Investment Corp plant in Ningxia, two AI-guided drones inspect over a mil
- [China's high-speed trains now have an AI "doctor" that reads 10,000 parts an hour](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-rail-ai-maintenance) (2026-10-19): Intelligent inspection robots and image-reading AI now check China's 48,000-km high-speed 
- [China's biggest pig farmer now has AI listening for sick hogs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-smart-pig-farming) (2026-10-19): Muyuan, China's largest hog producer, has rolled an AI "cough doctor" and large model acro
- [100 classic Hong Kong films, reborn in 4K: how AI rewrote the restoration playbook](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-film-restoration-hongkong-classics) (2026-10-19): A three-party project restored 100 aging Hong Kong movies to 4K in just over a year — far 
- [Alibaba's chatbot can now dress your photo in Taobao's catalog — the AI fitting room arrives](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-virtual-tryon-taobao) (2026-10-19): Alibaba fused its Qwen (千问) assistant with Taobao's 4-billion-item catalog and shipped an 
- [Thousands of AI idols debuted on Bilibili — and a rap by ancient Chinese poets went viral](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-video-idols) (2026-10-19): Bilibili's "AI Idol Debut Season" drew nearly 10,000 AI music-video entries in months. A s
- [Make anything dance": how a Chinese AI feature turned pets into a global trend](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-dance-video-boom) (2026-10-19): Kuaishou's Kling AI shipped a "Motion Control" (运动控制) feature in late 2025 that pastes any
- [A Shanghai warehouse-robot firm quietly became the one Chinese name KION trusts to automate the world's forklifts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-quicktron-amr-warehouse) (2026-10-18): Quicktron (快仓) builds autonomous mobile robots for warehouses and factories, and its 2020 
- [A Harbin-lab surgical robot is finally clearing the regulatory wall that kept Chinese operating rooms on imported arms](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-kangduo-laparoscopic-surgery) (2026-10-18): Kangduo (康多), born from a Harbin Institute of Technology team, is among the first domestic
- [How a Shanghai cobot maker turned "useful everywhere" into a global assembly line habit](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-jaka-cobots-global) (2026-10-18): JAKA (节卡), a Shanghai collaborative-robot company, is betting that the next wave of factor
- [China's industrial-robot champion just went A+H, and it now outships the foreign giants at home](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-estun-industrial-ah-listing) (2026-10-18): Estun (埃斯顿), the Nanjing robot maker that spent a decade buying its way up the value chain
- [Qwen3.5 Ships a 397B Open-Weight Model That Sees and Reads](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen3-5) (2026-10-18): Alibaba's Qwen3.5-397B-A17B combines open weights, native image-and-video understanding, a
- [China's Global AI Governance Initiative asks who should write the world's AI rules](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-global-ai-governance-initiative) (2026-10-18): Announced at a Beijing summit and published by the Foreign Ministry, the Global AI Governa
- [China quietly relaxed its cross-border data rules, and multinationals noticed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-cross-border-data-flow-provisions) (2026-10-18): The Cyberspace Administration's Provisions on Promoting and Regulating Cross-Border Data F
- [China forces AI-generated content to reveal itself — visibly and invisibly](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-synthetic-content-labeling) (2026-10-18): A four-minister rule plus a mandatory national standard now require every AI-made text, im
- [The implant that skips the skull — how a Tsinghua team made nerve-zapping affordable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-pins-vns-neuromodulation-implants) (2026-10-18): PINS Medical (品驰医疗), working with Tsinghua, turned vagus-nerve stimulation into a locally 
- [The 1992-born Stanford PhD who skipped the humanoid beauty contest and built a robot that just works](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-he-galbot) (2026-10-18): Wang He, a Peking University professor and Galbot (银河通用) founder, bet on wheeled, task-foc
- [A Microsoft veteran who built Bing just bet China's AI future on one stubborn idea](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-jiang-daxin-stepfun) (2026-10-18): Jiang Daxin left a 16-year Microsoft career to found StepFun (阶跃星辰), betting that multimod
- [He watched therapists hand-move patients' legs — then built China's rehab robots and its first mass-produced humanoid](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-gu-jie-fourier) (2026-10-18): Gu Jie founded Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶智能) after the 2008 earthquake showed him rehab rob
- [The chip under the skull — a Tsinghua spinoff building China's full-stack implant hardware](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuramatrix-invasive-bci-platform) (2026-10-18): NeuraMatrix (宁矩科技), incubated at Tsinghua, is one of the few Chinese firms designing its o
- [MiniMax M3 Packs Frontier Coding, 1M Context and Vision Into One Open Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-m3) (2026-10-18): MiniMax M3 combines open weights, a million-token window, and native image-and-video under
- [The brain-inspired chip that skipped the von Neumann bottleneck](https://neuroai.site/a/na-lynxi-brain-inspired-computing) (2026-10-18): Lynxi (灵汐科技), a Tsinghua-born neuromorphic computing company, is betting that brain-like c
- [The helium is gone — a wearable helmet that reads the brain's magnetic whisper](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kunmai-opm-meg-quantum-imaging) (2026-10-18): Beijing's Kunmai (昆迈医疗) turned brain-mapping MEG into a helium-free, wearable helmet, and 
- [Tencent's Hunyuan-T1 Brings Mamba to a Front-Line Reasoning Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-t1) (2026-10-18): Tencent's Hunyuan-T1 is the company's first deep-reasoning model and, per Tencent, the fir
- [DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp Debuts Sparse Attention to Make Long Context Cheap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-v32-exp) (2026-10-18): DeepSeek's experimental V3.2-Exp introduces a fine-grained sparse-attention mechanism that

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