# 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)

## Topics

- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (20 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (25 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (24 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (19 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (15 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (16 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (10 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (11 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (9 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (10 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Tinavi spent 15 years on one orthopedic robot — and became China's surgical-robot pioneer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tinavi-surgical) (2026-09-28): Tinavi's TiRobot (天玑) has assisted in more than 180,000 orthopedic procedures and made the
- [China's Neolix quietly put 10,000 delivery robots on the road — then 15,000](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-delivery) (2026-09-28): Neolix (新石器无人车), a Beijing-based autonomous-delivery-vehicle maker, became the first compa
- [China's AgiBot shipped more humanoid robots than anyone else in 2025 — and walked one 106 km](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-zhiyuan-humanoid) (2026-09-28): Zhiyuan Robotics, better known as AgiBot (智元机器人), went from founding in 2023 to the top of
- [Why Chinese apps now stamp "AI生成" on everything you see](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling) (2026-09-28): China's Measures for Labeling of AI-Generated/Synthetic Content (《人工智能生成合成内容标识办法》) took ef
- [Zhipu's Tsinghua founders chose a homegrown model architecture — and took it to Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhipu-founder) (2026-09-28): Spun out of a Tsinghua University lab in 2019, Zhipu built the GLM large model (大模型) famil
- [Wang Xingxing bet on cheap robots — and built China's first listed humanoid company](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xingxing-unitree) (2026-09-28): A 1990-born engineer from Ningbo turned a low-cost quadruped prototype into Unitree, now t
- [Zhipu open-sourced GLM-4.5 with 355B parameters — and gave agents a thinking mode](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm) (2026-09-28): On 28 July 2025, Beijing-based Zhipu AI (智谱AI) released GLM-4.5 as a fully open-weights mo
- [Moonshot bet everything on long context — then open-sourced a 1-trillion-parameter Kimi](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-moonshot-kimi-longctx) (2026-09-28): Beijing's Moonshot AI (月之暗面), founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin (杨植麟), built its identity aro
- [MiniMax open-sourced a 456B model with a 4-million-token memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-open) (2026-09-28): In January 2025, Shanghai-based MiniMax released and open-sourced MiniMax-01, a 456-billio
- [Xiaomi's CyberOne and MiMo show a phone maker betting AI belongs in bodies, not just chats](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xiaomi-cyberone) (2026-09-28): Xiaomi unveiled its CyberOne humanoid (人形机器人) back in 2022, but the real pivot came in 202
- [ByteDance's Doubao 1.8 reframes the model as an Agent brain, not a chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-doubao) (2026-09-28): At its winter FORCE conference, ByteDance's cloud arm Volcano Engine released Doubao 1.8, 
- [Alibaba's new AI chip is 3× last year's — and it's a bet on the whole stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-zhenwu-v900-ai-chip) (2026-09-28): At the 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba's chip unit T-Head unveiled Zhenwu V900, a training
- [Huawei's next Ascend chips — a 2028 roadmap built on system scale, not single-chip speed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huawei-ascend-next) (2026-09-28): Huawei's Ascend (昇腾) 910C is now shipping at volume, but the more telling move came in Sep
- [Cambricon's comeback chip — the MLU590 that turned a loss-making lab profitable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cambricon-mlu) (2026-09-28): Founded in 2016 and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2020, Cambricon (寒武纪) spent years 
- [Unitree's Series C values the Hangzhou robot maker near US$1.7B — and looks like an IPO rehearsal](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-unitree-funding) (2026-09-28): Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou company behind the G1 and H1 humanoid robots, closed a Seri
- [Kimi closes a $500M Series C — and sits on a cash pile bigger than most Chinese AI labs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-moonshot-funding) (2026-09-28): Moonshot AI, the Beijing lab behind the Kimi chatbot, raised US$500 million in a Series C 
- [DeepSeek just hired its first CFO — what a 35-year-old exec signals about China's AI money race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-deepseek-first-cfo-ipo) (2026-09-28): For three years DeepSeek wore "no funding, no commercialization, no CFO" as a badge. In Se
- [China's closed-loop brain implant learns to catch seizures before they start](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-epilepsy-deep-brain) (2026-09-28): A homegrown closed-loop brain–computer interface (脑机接口) built by Neuracle is in late-stage
- [China's BrainCo turned a focus-tracking EEG headband into a 100,000-unit product — and a pre-IPO unicorn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-consumer-focus-headset) (2026-09-28): BrainCo (强脑科技), a Hangzhou neurotechnology company born in a Harvard lab, is one of the fe
- [China built a speech brain–computer interface that decodes Mandarin for locked-in patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-als-speech-decoding) (2026-09-28): Two separate Chinese teams have pushed speech brain–computer interfaces (脑机接口) past a wall
- [NetEase Youdao's Ziyue (子曰) education model is quietly running China's AI homework helpers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-tutor-china) (2026-09-28): NetEase Youdao (网易有道) launched Ziyue (子曰), billed as China's first education-specific larg
- [Tencent Miying holds three medical Class III certificates — what China's AI radiology actually does in clinics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-medical-imaging) (2026-09-28): Tencent Miying (腾讯觅影), launched in 2017, is one of the few Chinese medical-AI products wit
- [A Chinese lab is watching 1.27 million elderly people for falls — with radar, not cameras](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-eldercare) (2026-09-28): As China's over-60 population crosses 310 million, mmWave-radar AI is being deployed to de
- [China's Tripo 3D model turns a sentence into a game-ready asset — and just pulled $446M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tripo-3d-generation) (2026-09-28): VAST's Tripo, a Beijing-developed 3D generative model, can turn text or images into editab
- [Kuaishou's Kling became the AI video model that out-ranked Google Veo and Pika](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-ai-video) (2026-09-28): Kling AI (可灵AI), the video-generation large model (大模型) built inside short-video platform 
- [China will build 100,000 humanoids in 2026 — but fewer than 1 in 5 is actually on the job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-100k-deploy) (2026-09-27): MIIT projects China's humanoid output above 100,000 units this year, a 5x jump. Yet tracke
- [China's "BeiNao-1 (北脑一号)" just cleared 10 human implants — what a semi-invasive brain chip actually changes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-beinao-10-implants) (2026-09-27): A Beijing-backed brain-computer interface has reached 10 implants with over 45,000 hours o
- [China's Mureka Outsang Suno on the Global Music AI Bench — But Can It Out-Earn It?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-china) (2026-09-27): Kunlun Tech's Mureka V8 ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis's vocals and instrumental music l
- [Alibaba's Omni Model (全模态模型) Watches, Listens and Acts — Can One Brain Replace a Stack of Tools?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-multimodal-china) (2026-09-26): Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash handles text, image, audio and video in a one-million-token window and 
- [China's open-weight model wave — flagship 大模型 you can download, not just rent](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-china-open-models) (2026-09-26): Across late August and September 2026, Alibaba, Tencent, Zhipu and ModelBest published ope
- [Cambricon Posted Its First-Ever Profit — But Can It Actually Build Half a Million Chips in 2026?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-inference-chip) (2026-09-26): Cambricon turned its first annual profit in 2025 on soaring inference-chip revenue, and no
- [Huawei's 4,096-card supernode — why China is rebuilding AI compute from the rack up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-cambricon-sept) (2026-09-26): At Huawei Connect 2026, Huawei unveiled the Ascend 960 supernode — 4,096 cards behind one 
- [A humanoid robot now works real shifts in a Chinese warehouse](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-warehouse-china) (2026-09-25): At WAIC 2026, JD Logistics and AgiBot unveiled Genie G2 Max and put it to work in JD's Zhi
- [China's robot-chip maker just banked $400M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-drobotics-400m-series-c) (2026-09-25): D-Robotics, the robotics-computing spin-off from Horizon Robotics, closed a $400M Series C
- [A paralyzed man now picks up strawberries—thanks to a Chinese brain implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-rehab-china) (2026-09-25): A Beijing-backed semi-invasive brain-computer interface called BeiNao-1 has reached nearly
- [China's AI stops demoing and starts shipping](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-leaves-demo-stage) (2026-09-25): Across September 2026, Chinese deployments of agents, autonomous delivery vehicles and hos
- [One humanoid every ten minutes: inside the factory where robots build robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-liuzhou-factory) (2026-09-24): On 12 September 2026, UBTECH switched on a 14,000 m² "super smart factory" in Liuzhou desi
- [China binds AI agents with a mandatory safety standard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-standard) (2026-09-24): China has launched a mandatory national safety standard for AI agents—the first of its kin
- [This AI Scientist Says China's Real Bottleneck Isn't the Chip — It's the Idea](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-china-ai-scientist) (2026-09-24): At WAIC 2026, Peking University's Zhu Songchun argued that true general intelligence needs
- [One-click microdramas: how China's AI video models turned short drama into an export](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-microdrama-overseas) (2026-09-24): At a Shanghai conference on 4 September 2026, China's AI microdrama (短剧) overseas push got
- [Two Chinese large models (大模型) just reset what "good enough" costs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-kimi-efficient) (2026-09-23): In September 2026, DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash — a 552B open-weight model with a 1M-token
- [Tencent Open-Sourced Its Smartest Model Yet — And Wired It Through Yuanbao and Beyond](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-ai) (2026-09-23): Through 2026 Tencent rebuilt its Hunyuan (混元) foundation model around real-world usefulnes
- [Two of China's 'AI Tigers' Listed in 24 Hours — Is Hong Kong Becoming the AI Float of Choice?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-ipo-china) (2026-09-23): In January 2026, generative-AI pioneers Zhipu and MiniMax listed on the Hong Kong Stock Ex
- [China just wrote the first global rule for AI brain-computer interfaces (脑机接口)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-china-ai-eeg-standard) (2026-09-23): China's drug regulator published the world's first medical-device standard for AI-processe
- [Beijing's "AI + Software" plan: 100 agent apps and a 2028 deadline](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-software-plan) (2026-09-22): China's MIIT has published a national "AI + Software" action plan with hard 2028 targets—2
- [Kai-Fu Lee: China's open-source AI models just hit their global moment](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-kaifulee-global-ai) (2026-09-22): At the 26th China International Fair for Investment & Trade, 01.AI founder Kai-Fu Lee argu
- [China's office workers just got AI colleagues — and they're already on the clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-agent-china) (2026-09-22): In summer 2026, ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Kingsoft all shipped AI Agent (智能体)
- [AI turned short dramas into a factory — and the factory is going global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-short-drama) (2026-09-22): In 2026, AI cut the cost of making microdrama (短剧) by up to 90% and pushed the overseas ma
- [DeepSeek's most-anticipated model never launched — here's what shipped instead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-new) (2026-09-21): The rumored DeepSeek R2 reasoning model never shipped. Instead, in April 2026 the lab rele
- [Alibaba's AI Sprint: Open Weights for Images, Closed APIs for the Rest](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-sept-sprint) (2026-09-21): Across 18–20 September 2026 Alibaba's Qwen team shipped three notable releases — an open-s
- [The last of China's "GPU Four" just went public — and the real test begins](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-domestic-gpu) (2026-09-21): On 11 September 2026, Enflame (燧原科技) listed on Shanghai's STAR Market (科创板), completing th
- [ByteDance just spun its AI drug lab into a $1.5B company — why that matters](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-anew-labs-290m) (2026-09-21): ByteDance spun off its AI drug-discovery unit Anew Labs, which then raised US$290M at a US
- [China's humanoid price war just put a walking robot within used-car range](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-price-drop) (2026-09-20): Unitree cut its entry humanoid to ¥29,900 (≈ US$4,150 / HK$32,400) in mid-2026, capping a 
- [Can Huawei's Supernode (超节点) Outsmart the Chip Ban—or Just Defer the Problem?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-960-supernode) (2026-09-20): At Connect 2026 Huawei said it has deployed over 1,000 Ascend 910C supernodes and unveiled
- [China approved a brain chip for sale before Neuralink could. Here is the real gap.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-neuralink-china-compare) (2026-09-20): Neuralink had implanted roughly two dozen people by mid-2026 but still had no commercial a
- [Can China's AI Short-Drama (短剧) Finally Make Money—or Is the Hype Ahead of the Cash?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-microdrama) (2026-09-20): Kuaishou's Kling AI crossed 850 million yuan in quarterly revenue while microdrama (短剧) su
- [When the AI sounds human, China now says it must come with a label and a leash](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-china-ai-regulation) (2026-09-19): China's five regulators issued the first dedicated rules for anthropomorphic AI companions
- [A Chinese AI founder's bet: agents are leaving the chat window for the physical world](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-china-ai-founder) (2026-09-19): At WAIC 2026, StepFun chairman Yin Qi argued AI has crossed a capability threshold and tha
- [DeepSeek's Cheapest Model Just Learned to See — and the Weights Are Open](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v41-flash) (2026-09-19): On 10 September 2026 DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a 552B-parameter open-weight large mode
- [Can a 251-Million-Customer Insurer Run on "One Sentence"?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ping-an-ai-service) (2026-09-19): Ping An has wired "one sentence does the job" into the front door of its financial and hea
- [China opened a factory that builds a humanoid every 10 minutes — here's the fine print](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-liuzhou) (2026-09-18): UBTECH's Liuzhou "super smart factory" opened on Sept 12, 2026 with planned capacity above
- [Baidu opens ERNIE 4.5 to the world — the closed-source champion flips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-ai-update) (2026-09-18): On 30 June 2026 Baidu fully open-sourced the ERNIE 4.5 (文心 4.5) series — 10 models under A
- [Kimi's $3.5B round makes it China's best-funded AI startup](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-china-ai-funding) (2026-09-18): Moonshot AI's Kimi closed a Series F above US$3.5 billion at a US$35 billion valuation in 
- [China's brain chip that never touches brain tissue just entered regulated trials](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-neuroxess-trial) (2026-09-18): NeuroXess (脑虎科技) launched a GCP registration trial for its "三全" subdural brain-computer in
- [What Is an AI Agent? A Plain-English Guide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-ai-agent) (2026-09-17): An AI agent is a system that can plan, use tools, and act toward a goal with limited human
- [What Is AGI? A Plain-English Guide to Artificial General Intelligence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-agi) (2026-09-17): Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the hypothetical point where a machine matches or
- [Robotaxis in China — Baidu Apollo Go, Pony.ai and the World's Biggest Driverless Fleets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robotaxi-china) (2026-09-17): China runs the largest robotaxi (自动驾驶出租车) trials on Earth, led by Baidu's Apollo Go (萝卜快跑)
- [Nvidia vs AMD in AI Chips — Who Builds the Engines for the AI Boom?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nvidia-vs-amd-ai-chips) (2026-09-17): Nvidia dominates AI compute with its GPUs and the CUDA software stack; AMD is the credible
- [China's Open-Source AI Models Explained — Qwen, DeepSeek and the Rest](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-open-models) (2026-09-17): China has become the world's largest source of openly released AI models. This guide expla
- [China's AI Policy Explained — the "AI Plus" Plan and What It Means](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-ai-policy-2026) (2026-09-17): China's AI strategy is less a single law and more a stack of plans: a national agenda, the
- [Ant's AQ hits 150 million users — China's AI health front door](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-health-china) (2026-09-17): Ant Group's AI-native health app AQ passed 150 million users in September 2026, eight mont
- [Can Kling 3.0 turn one prompt into a directed, voiced short?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-video-model-launch) (2026-09-17): Kuaishou's Kling 3.0, launched globally on 5 February 2026, folds text-to-video, native au
- [What Is DeepSeek? Open Weights and Why They Shook the Industry](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-deepseek) (2026-09-16): DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab that released frontier-grade models with open weights and a f
- [What Is a Brain–Computer Interface? A Plain-English Guide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-bci) (2026-09-16): A brain–computer interface (BCI) reads electrical signals from the brain and turns them in
- [Neuralink vs Chinese BCI: What's Actually Different](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuralink-vs-chinese-bci) (2026-09-16): Neuralink gets most of the headlines, but in 2026 a Chinese implantable BCI, NEO, became t
- [Alibaba Open-Sourced a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Qwen — and Finally Cracked Open the "Max-Class" Vault](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-new-release) (2026-09-16): In August 2026 Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max and, for the first time, open-sourced the weig
- [Humanoid Robots in 2026: A Field Guide to Who's Building Them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-humanoid-robots-field-guide-2026) (2026-09-16): Everyone is building a humanoid robot. This field guide maps the serious contenders — Unit
- [Huawei Ascend vs Nvidia: China's Bet on Homegrown AI Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-huawei-ascend-vs-nvidia) (2026-09-16): Nvidia's GPUs power most AI outside China. Huawei's Ascend series is the domestic alternat
- [How Does a Humanoid Robot Actually Work?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-how-humanoid-robots-work) (2026-09-16): Strip away the videos and a humanoid robot is three problems: move, see, and think. This e
- [Huawei's New Supernode Puts 4,096 Chips in One "Computer" — But the Win Is in the Glass, Not the Silicon](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-cloud) (2026-09-16): At Huawei Connect 2026 (17 September) Huawei launched the Ascend 960 supernode (昇腾960超节点),

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