# 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.

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Language: English
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## Topics

- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (52 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (57 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (56 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (47 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (47 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (43 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (33 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (34 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (32 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (33 articles)

## Recent articles

- [A Chinese snake-arm surgical robot lands in a top Spanish hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-shurui-single-port-surgery) (2026-10-07): Beijing-based Shurui's single-port laparoscopic robot won a competitive tender at Spain's 
- [An industrial embodied robot passes 2,283 tasks with zero failures](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-pia-g2-industrial-embodied) (2026-10-07): Pia Intelligent's G2 industrial embodied robot ran 8 hours and 2,283 pick-and-place cycles
- [Elder-care robots knock on China's front door as the market crosses $1 billion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-elderly-care-robots) (2026-10-07): Backed by a state report forecasting a 10-billion-yuan market, Chinese elderly-care robots
- [Humanoid robots start work on the sewing line, not the stage](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-aitu-garment-humanoid) (2026-10-07): Jack Technology's Aitu humanoid is being deployed in Chinese garment factories for fabric-
- [China opens its public-data vault with a new rulebook](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-public-data-operation) (2026-10-07): Since March 1, 2025, China runs a unified public-data registration and authorized-operatio
- [China's "data factor ×" plan puts 12 sectors on a 2026 clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-factor-action-plan) (2026-10-07): A 2024 seventeen-department action plan turns data into a tradable factor of production ac
- [China's AI Safety Governance Framework 2.0 redraws the risk map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-framework) (2026-10-07): Released September 15, 2025, the AI Safety Governance Framework 2.0 splits AI risk into th
- [The chipmaker betting China's cars will think for themselves](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yu-kai-horizon) (2026-10-07): How Yu Kai (余凯) walked away from Baidu's AI lab to build Horizon Robotics (地平线), now the d
- [The physicist-turned-CEO steering SenseTime past the vision-AI era](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-xu-li-sensetime) (2026-10-07): How Xu Li (徐立) co-founded SenseTime (商汤) with a famous professor and is now reinventing Ch
- [The professor who left Missouri to put driverless taxis on five continents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-han-xu-weride) (2026-10-07): How Han Xu (韩旭 / Tony Han) built WeRide (文远知行) from a Baidu lab spinout into the first Rob
- [SenseTime's SenseNova V6 — one model that reads 10-minute videos and thinks out loud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-sensetime-sensenova-v6-multimodal) (2026-10-07): SenseTime's SenseNova V6 (日日新) is a 600B+ multimodal MoE that fuses text, image, video and
- [Meituan's LongCat — a delivery giant's 560B open model built for agents, not chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-meituan-longcat-agent-moe) (2026-10-07): Meituan open-sourced LongCat-Flash, a 560B mixture-of-experts large model (大模型) tuned for 
- [Kuaishou's Keye-VL — an 8B video-understanding model that watches short clips like a human](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kuaishou-keye-vl-video-understandi) (2026-10-07): Kuaishou open-sourced Keye-VL-1.5, an 8-billion-parameter multimodal model that reads shor
- [JD rebuilds its AI around JoyAI — a 3B-to-750B model family and a fully open agent](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-jd-joyai-full-size-family) (2026-10-07): At WAIC 2025 JD upgraded its Yanxi (言犀) brand to JoyAI, a full-size model family from 3B t
- [XPeng's Physical AI roadmap puts one chip stack across cars, humanoids and flying cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xpeng-physical-ai-ecosystem) (2026-10-07): At its 2025 AI Day, XPeng laid out a single embodied-intelligence plan — robotaxis, the IR
- [Megvii repositions from face recognition to running whole physical spaces with agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-megvii-physical-ai-agents) (2026-10-07): The computer-vision pioneer is reframing itself around "Intelligent Agents" for physical s
- [4Paradigm bridges China's homegrown GPUs and the models that must run on them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-4paradigm-sage-domestic-compute) (2026-10-07): One of China's largest enterprise-AI platforms is pivoting from selling models to solving 
- [SMIC crosses US$9.3 billion in 2025 sales as China's chip foundry bets on capacity](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-foundry-ai-capacity) (2026-10-07): Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (中芯国际), China's largest pure-play fo
- [Hygon's DCU line turns China's x86 CPU champion into an AI compute contender](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-hygon-dcu-deep-compute) (2026-10-07): Hygon (海光信息), long known for x86 server CPUs, is growing a DCU deep-learning accelerator i
- [China's Cambricon books first annual profit as homegrown AI accelerators scale](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-first-profit) (2026-10-07): Cambricon (寒武纪) reported its first full-year profit in 2025, a signal that China's domesti
- [ByteDance builds its own AI chip as Chinese internet giants chase silicon independence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-bytedance-seedchip-inhouse) (2026-10-07): ByteDance (字节跳动) has grown an in-house chip team past 1,000 people and is developing a sel
- [Tencent's 2025 capex stayed flat, but AI spending steps onto a steeper curve](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-tencent-ai-capex) (2026-10-07): Tencent reported 2025 capital expenditure of about RMB 79.2B with AI-specific investment o
- [MiniMax clears Hong Kong listing hearing as China's AGI startups race to IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-minimax-hk-ipo) (2026-10-07): MiniMax passed its HKEX hearing in December 2025, putting the full-modal AI startup on tra
- [Biren Technology sets Hong Kong GPU listing, chasing a scarce pure-play chip slot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-biren-hk-ipo) (2026-10-07): Biren Technology passed its HKEX hearing in December 2025 and launched its IPO, positionin
- [The featherweight electrode — why a thin film on the brain is the new battleground in implants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-thin-film-electrode) (2026-10-07): Precision Neuroscience's FDA-cleared thin-film array shows a gentler path to brain implant
- [From moving a cursor to seeing again — how brain implants are reaching for the senses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-neuralink-sensory-restoration) (2026-10-07): Neuralink is pushing its implant beyond motion control into vision, speech and hearing res
- [Who owns your neural signals? The quiet race to write brain-data rights into law](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-neural-data-privacy) (2026-10-07): As brain-computer interfaces (脑机接口) leave the lab, China and the world are racing to decid
- [When the model reads your mind — how AI turned brain signals into fluent speech](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-llm-speech-decoding) (2026-10-07): Large language models are closing the gap between a paralysed person's intent and spoken w
- [Tongyi Lingma passes 22 million downloads as AI coding goes mainstream in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tongyi-lingma-coding) (2026-10-07): Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lingma AI coding assistant has crossed 22 million plugin downloads 
- [Squirrel Ai's adaptive tutor reaches 3,000+ centers and 43 million students](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-squirrel-ai-tutor) (2026-10-07): How Squirrel Ai's Large Adaptive Model is turning one-size-fits-all homework into personal
- [China's elderly-care robots step out of the lab as Beijing backs a national pilot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-eldercare-robots-pilot) (2026-10-07): With a China-led international standard and a 2025–2027 MIIT–Civil Affairs pilot, care rob
- [Alibaba's Qwen-Image puts studio-grade text rendering into an open model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-qwen-image-alibaba) (2026-10-07): Alibaba's open-source Qwen-Image image-generation model targets the hardest problem in AI 
- [Kunlun's Mureka bets on "reasoning" to make AI music sound less mechanical](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-mureka-ai-music) (2026-10-07): Kunlun Tech's Mureka O1 introduced Chain-of-Thought music generation and claims to outperf
- [Tencent's HunyuanVideo-Avatar turns one photo and one audio clip into a talking video](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-hunyuanvideo-avatar) (2026-10-07): Tencent open-sourced HunyuanVideo-Avatar, a model that drives a still portrait with speech
- [Baidu's Steam Engine breaks the 10-second wall with real-time, editable AI video](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-baidu-steam-engine-video) (2026-10-07): Baidu upgraded its "Steam Engine" video model to generate long, interactive AI video you c
- [Why China's embodied-AI labs are building data factories, not just better simulations](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-sim-to-real-data-flywheel) (2026-10-06): Simulation alone will not teach a robot to fold a real shirt — China's embodied-AI (具身智能) 
- [Robot dogs are already working China's dangerous jobs — the humanoids are still auditioning](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-quadruped-rescue-inspection) (2026-10-06): From Beijing's high-voltage tunnels to a Tianjin forest-fire drill, Unitree's B2 quadruped
- [From words to wrench — how China's VLA models are teaching robots to actually act](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-embodied-vla-models) (2026-10-06): AgiBot's GO-1 and Star-Sea's EFM-1 show two Chinese answers to the same problem: turning a
- [China's wheeled robots already run the warehouse floor — the humanoids are the sequel](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-amr-warehouse-picking) (2026-10-06): While humanoids (人形机器人) audition on stage, Chinese AMR vendors like Geek+ and Hikrobot alr
- [China turns data labeling into an industry — with a 20% growth mandate](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-labeling-guidance) (2026-10-06): A 2024 opinion from the National Data Administration treats data labeling as core AI infra
- [China wants to make idle compute borrowable — like electricity](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-compute-interconnect) (2026-10-06): A May 2025 action plan aims to wire heterogeneous public compute into one identifiable, sc
- [China wrote the rulebook for AI — 50 new standards and a 2026 clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-standard-system) (2026-10-06): A 2024 four-ministerial guideline maps China's AI standards into seven layers and sets har
- [Zhang Yaqin left Baidu's presidency to chase a harder problem — making AI safe to drive](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhang-yaqin-air) (2026-10-06): How the Tsinghua AIR founding dean turned from running Baidu to governing autonomous AI, a
- [Wang Haifeng spent a decade building Baidu's AI stack so Wenxin could finally talk back](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-haifeng-wenxin) (2026-10-06): How Baidu's CTO turned a 2019 knowledge model into ERNIE (文心) and stitched a full AI stack
- [Harry Shum says the robot hand — not the next giant model — is China's real AI test](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-harry-shum) (2026-10-06): How the former Microsoft AI chief rebuilt a lab-to-factory bridge at IDEA and is betting C
- [Chinese models learned to think out loud — and that changed what they're trusted with](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-reasoning-models-china) (2026-10-06): DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2 turned step-by-step reasoning from a party trick into infrastructu
- [Open weights, closed borders: the paradox China's model labs learned to exploit](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-open-weights-export-control) (2026-10-06): A US chip embargo was meant to slow China's AI. Labs like DeepSeek and Qwen answered by gi
- [Why Chinese labs stopped separating sight, sound, and speech into different models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-multimodal-china) (2026-10-06): Qwen2.5-Omni, GLM-4.5V, and Kimi K2.5 fold audio, vision, and text into one model — moving
- [China's AI agents left the chat box and started tapping the screen](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-agent-frameworks-china) (2026-10-06): From Manus to Zhipu's AutoGLM and on-device phone assistants, Chinese agents moved from an
- [SenseTime Bet Everything on SenseNova — and the Losses Just Got Smaller](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-sensetime-sensenova) (2026-10-06): Once China's face-recognition champion, SenseTime (商汤) rebuilt itself around the SenseNova
- [Every Lenovo Laptop Now Hides an NPU — and a Bet on the Post-PC PC](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-lenovo-ai-pc) (2026-10-06): Lenovo (联想) turned its AI PC from a marketing label into a real revenue mix: one in three 
- [The Cloud Bills Are Coming Due — and AI Is Finally Helping Baidu and Alibaba Pay Them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-alibaba-ai-cloud) (2026-10-06): Baidu (百度) and Alibaba (阿里) Cloud each posted AI-driven cloud acceleration in their latest
- [The invisible chokepoint: can China's own EDA tools design the next chip?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-domestic-eda-ai) (2026-10-06): Every AI chip in China is drawn by software few have heard of — and when the US told the t
- [The memory wall: why China is betting on compute-in-memory for the edge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-computing-in-memory) (2026-10-06): As AI moves from the cloud to battery-powered devices, a small group of Chinese startups s
- [When you can't buy the best fab, you package around it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-chiplet-advanced-packaging) (2026-10-06): Cut off from the most advanced lithography, China's chip builders are turning advanced pac
- [The self-driving brain race: can China's car chips stand alone?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-automotive-ai-soc) (2026-10-06): As China's EVs ship with ever-smarter driver-assist, two homegrown chip designers are tryi
- [China's Cities Are Writing Billion-Dollar Robot-Fund Checks — But Can They Pick Winners?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-robot-industry-funds) (2026-10-06): Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have each launched government-guided robot funds worth hund
- [China's AI Startups Hit a Funding Wall — Is the Model-Bet Era Over?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-vc-rationalization) (2026-10-06): PitchBook shows China's private AI investment fell to about US$6B in 2025 while the US sur
- [China's AI-Chip Startups Keep Multiplying — So Why Are They Merging?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-chip-mna) (2026-10-06): A real Hygon-Sugon merger and a wave of GPU IPOs show China's fragmented AI-chip field is 
- [The focus headband promised to read your mind — and stirred a privacy firestorm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-consumer-focus-headband) (2026-10-06): China's consumer EEG headbands claim to train attention via neurofeedback, but the science
- [The brain pacemaker that finally talks back — closed-loop DBS reaches Chinese clinics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-closed-loop-dbs-parkinsons) (2026-10-06): China's domestic brain pacemakers are moving from fixed-schedule stimulation to adaptive, 
- [How a brain-computer interface clears China's regulatory gate — the NMPA fast lane, explained](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-china-clinical-trials-nmpa) (2026-10-06): China routes implantable BCI devices through an innovative-device priority channel and a n
- [Can a headband catch Alzheimer's a decade early? China bets on brain-signal screening](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-alzheimer-early-screening) (2026-10-06): Non-invasive EEG brain-computer interfaces are being trialed in China to flag cognitive de
- [Hangzhou gave its traffic lights a brain — and shaved minutes off millions of commutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-traffic-governance) (2026-10-06): Hangzhou's City Brain used AI to retime signals and reroute emergency vehicles, cutting tr
- [AI is now in China's courtrooms — but who is really judging?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-legal-assistance) (2026-10-06): From Hangzhou's internet court to Shanghai's '206' evidence system, China has deployed AI 
- [AI can design a drug in 18 months. Why aren't there any on pharmacy shelves yet?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-drug-discovery) (2026-10-06): China's AI drug-discovery leaders Insilico Medicine and XtalPi have gone public and built 
- [Erase the lamp, extend the sky — China's multimodal image editors take on Photoshop's empty canvas](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-multimodal-image-editing) (2026-10-06): Domestic editors like Jimeng and Tongyi Wanxiang ship inpainting and outpainting in one cl
- [One brief, ten thousand cuts — how Chinese brands mass-produce ad creative with generative AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-marketing-ad-generation) (2026-10-06): Baidu and Alibaba's marketing clouds now generate ad creative in bulk, letting brands spin
- [The studio that paints nothing by hand — how China's game artists are rebuilding the asset pipeline](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-game-asset-generation) (2026-10-06): Tencent and NetEase are folding generative models into game production, cutting some art w
- [The tutor that never sleeps — how China's edtech turns generative AI into a homework machine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-education-content-gen) (2026-10-06): From iFlytek learning tablets to TAL's AI hardware, Chinese education is betting on genera
- [Unitree's 18 kg As2 robot dog delivers 90 N·m for farms and power lines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-as2) (2026-10-05): Unitree unveiled the As2 quadruped on 24 February 2026 — an 18 kg, IP54 field robot with 9
- [UBTECH's Liuzhou factory rolls out a Walker humanoid every 10 minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-line) (2026-10-05): UBTECH commissioned a 14,000 m² Liuzhou plant with 10,000-unit annual capacity where Walke
- [Nineteen NMPA nods later, China's surgical robots challenge da Vinci at home and abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-edge-surgical-localization) (2026-10-05): As of 25 August 2026 China held 19 laparoscopic surgical-robot certificates; Edge Medical'
- [China's picking robots harvest 5,000 apples per charge as orchards face a labour gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agri-picking) (2026-10-05): From apple arms to tomato grippers, Chinese picking robots now work real orchards and gree
- [China builds 8 western computing hubs to power its AI future](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-east-data-west-computing) (2026-10-05): China's 'East Data West Computing' (东数西算) links 8 national hubs to shift AI training west,
- [Eight free-trade zones quietly redraw China's data-export red lines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-export-negative-list) (2026-10-05): China's free-trade zones publish negative lists letting most business data exit without a 
- [Shanghai alone commits ¥10B in vouchers to cut AI compute bills](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-computing-vouchers) (2026-10-05): From Shanghai to Chengdu, cities issue 'computing vouchers' (算力券) covering up to 30% of AI
- [UBTECH's Zhou Jian let a humanoid ring the HKEX bell, then aimed at the home](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-jian-ubtech-humanoid) (2026-10-05): Zhou Jian founded UBTECH in 2012 and listed it in Hong Kong in 2023, sending the Walker hu
- [Nankai's Duan Feng threads a brain–computer interface into a vein — no skull opened](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-duan-feng-interventional-bci) (2026-10-05): Nankai's Duan Feng led the first interventional brain–computer interface human trial, lett
- [Chen Yunji's DianNao taught chips to think like neurons before the AI boom](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-yunji-cambricon-chip) (2026-10-05): Chen Yunji of CAS designed DianNao, the first deep-learning processor, seeding Cambricon a

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