# 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 (45 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (123 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (133 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (128 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (125 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (119 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (103 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (93 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (86 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (89 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (93 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Inside the terminal where the trucks drive themselves and the cranes have no pilot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-yangshan-auto-terminal) (2026-11-01): Shanghai's Yangshan Phase IV automated container terminal, built by ZPMC, runs quay cranes
- [The robot hand that can finally feel — and why that changes everything](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tactile-dexterous-hand) (2026-11-01): Touch is the missing sense in robotics. New tactile datasets and vision-based sensors from
- [Why a 150-kilogram drone is quietly redrawing the map of Chinese farmland](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-dji-agras-agri) (2026-11-01): DJI's Agras T100 flagship agricultural drone pairs a heavy-lift airframe with AI obstacle 
- [The robots going where miners used to — and why China is sending them underground](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-coalmine-robots) (2026-11-01): China's coal-mine robot push, anchored by a 2019 national catalogue of 38 machine types, i
- [China grades its AI gadgets: a new standard sorts phones, TVs, and glasses from L1 to L4](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-terminal-grading) (2026-11-01): Released on 8 May 2026 by MIIT, SAMR, and the Ministry of Commerce, the GB/Z 177—2026 seri
- [China's AI Cooperation Action Plan names eight steps to bridge the digital divide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-cooperation-plan) (2026-11-01): Released at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai on 17 July, the NDRC-led AI Cooperation and Development 
- [China's eight-ministry "AI + consumption" plan aims to put smart devices in every home](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-consumption) (2026-11-01): Eight Chinese central ministries, led by the Ministry of Commerce, issued implementation o
- [Kimi's open-weight gamble: how Yang Zhilin built a $50 billion model lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot) (2026-11-01): From a long-context chatbot to the world's largest open-weight model, Moonshot AI and foun
- [Lei Jun's $8 billion AI bet: Xiaomi's MiMo and a robot that fixes its own cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lei-jun-xiaomi) (2026-11-01): Xiaomi founder Lei Jun is pouring more than 60 billion yuan into AI, pairing the in-house 
- [The quiet operator behind Kling: how Cheng Yixiao turned a video model into Kuaishou's $18 billion crown jewel](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-cheng-yixiao-kling) (2026-11-01): Kuaishou CEO Cheng Yixiao turned an in-house video model, Kling AI, into an independently 
- [Li Auto's MindGPT makes the car cabin an agent, not a chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-li-auto-mindgpt) (2026-11-01): Li Auto's in-car assistant 理想同学 runs on its self-developed MindGPT base model, now an end-
- [Honor's MagicLM 3.0 puts a model on the phone that learns after you buy it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-honor-magiclm3) (2026-11-01): Honor released MagicLM 3.0 (魔法大模型3.0) and MagicOS 10 in October 2025, an on-device, self-e
- [China Mobile's Jiutian 3.0 brings a trillion-scalable model to industry, not app stores](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-china-mobile-jiutian3) (2026-11-01): At the 2025 World AI Conference, China Mobile released Jiutian (九天) Foundation Model 3.0, 
- [Ant open-sources Ling-1T, a trillion-parameter model for finance and health](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ant-ling1t) (2026-11-01): Ant Group released and open-sourced Ling-1T, a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts langu
- [ZTE turns its telecom engine into a full-stack AI infrastructure bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-zte-ai-factory) (2026-11-01): At MWC Shanghai 2026, ZTE laid out a full-stack AI play — from the NewStart AIOS and Super
- [Lenovo's AI server orders hit US$54 billion as the PC maker reinvents itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-lenovo-ai-server) (2026-11-01): Lenovo posted its strongest quarter ever as AI infrastructure demand drove a US$54 billion
- [Kling AI bets on a Hong Kong IPO to lead the video-generation race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kling-hk-ipo) (2026-11-01): Kuaishou's video-generation model Kling AI is preparing a Hong Kong IPO after a US$2.8B fu
- [The 800G boom made two Chinese module makers the world's top suppliers — and exposed a chip gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-optical-module-ai-datacenter) (2026-11-01): Innolight and Eoptolink now lead the global 800G optical transceiver market, but the laser
- [Inside the code-storage chip every MCU needs, a Chinese designer ranks global number two](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-nor-flash) (2026-11-01): GigaDevice (兆易创新) holds the number-two spot worldwide in NOR Flash with an 18.5 percent sh
- [The car camera boom put a Chinese sensor maker in the global driver's seat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-automotive-cis) (2026-11-01): OmniVision Group (豪威集团) became the world's largest automotive CMOS image sensor supplier i
- [The analog chips inside every gadget — and China's slow, steady catch-up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-analog-ic) (2026-11-01): Analog integrated circuits — power management and signal-chain chips — sit in nearly every
- [Reexen raises RMB 1 billion to push storage-compute chips into AI inference](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-reexen-storage-compute-chip) (2026-11-01): Shenzhen's Reexen Technology (九天睿芯) closed a cumulative RMB 1 billion round with Meituan, 
- [A "first" industrial embodied-intelligence IPO stalls in Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-microintelligence-hk-ipo) (2026-11-01): Changzhou Microintelligence (03275.HK) postponed its Hong Kong listing hours before pricin
- [Black Sesame completes Enno acquisition to round out its edge-AI chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-blacksesame-enno-acquisition) (2026-11-01): Hong Kong-listed Black Sesame (02533.HK) closed its 60% purchase of low-power AI chip firm
- [Neuralink's N1 implant: what the first human trials have shown](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuralink-n1-trials) (2026-11-01): From a first implant in January 2024 to named recipients across two studies, Neuralink's N
- [From silence to 62 words a minute: inside the speech neuroprosthesis](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-intracortical-speech-decoding) (2026-11-01): Stanford and BrainGate showed a paralyzed woman could dictate text at 62 words a minute by
- [Before the implant: how brain-mapping initiatives are quietly powering BCI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-brain-mapping-initiatives) (2026-11-01): You cannot wire a computer into a network you have not mapped. The U.S. BRAIN Initiative, 
- [The Utah Array powers nearly every human brain implant — here is the company behind it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-blackrock-neurotech-utah-array) (2026-11-01): Blackrock Neurotech's Utah Array has been inside human brains since 2004 and underlies mos
- [China's Smart Customs cleared a record US$6.16 trillion in 2024 — and AI is in the loop](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-smart-customs) (2026-11-01): China's General Administration of Customs is rolling out "Smart Customs" (智慧海关) tools — fr
- [How 52,000 sensor sites are turning China's landslide country into a warning map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-geohazard-warning) (2026-11-01): China has deployed sensor networks driven by machine learning across more than 52,000 susp
- [How 300 digitized caves turned Dunhuang into a 500-terabyte archive](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-dunhuang-heritage) (2026-11-01): Dunhuang Academy has scanned 300 Mogao cave-temples and built deep-learning tools that fla
- [What Baidu's Wenxin Yige taught China about AI art](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-wenxin-yige-art) (2026-11-01): Baidu's Wenxin Yige was one of the first Chinese text-to-image platforms to reach ordinary
- [Tencent's free ARC tools put AI photo repair in everyone's browser](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tencent-arc-photo) (2026-11-01): Tencent's ARC Lab ships free, no-signup photo tools — old-photo restoration, matting, and 
- [ByteDance's Haimian Music lets anyone turn a sentence into a song](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-haimian-music) (2026-11-01): Haimian Music, a free AI song generator from ByteDance, shows how far consumer music creat
- [How Doubao's voice podcast model turned links into spoken shows](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-podcast-china) (2026-11-01): China's AI podcast tools now turn a PDF or a web link into a two-person spoken show in sec
- [China now holds 19 approved laparoscopic surgical robots — and domestic brands are taking the lead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-surgical-robot-19-certs) (2026-10-31): As of August 2026 China had 19 NMPA certificates for laparoscopic surgical robots; domesti
- [Rino.ai just raised $100M to put 5,000 delivery robots on China's streets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-rino-delivery-c-round) (2026-10-31): L4 autonomous-delivery firm Rino.ai (白犀牛) closed a $100M C-round, with 5,000+ vehicles alr
- [China's humanoid robot output is set to top 100,000 this year — but most aren't on factory floors yet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-production-100k) (2026-10-31): MIIT projects 2026 humanoid robot output above 100,000 units, yet most shipped units still
- [China's "building doctors" are scanning walls and patrolling sites with robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-building-inspection-robot) (2026-10-31): China Railway Construction's wall-scan robot and a patrol robot dog show how robotics is m
- [China's foundational internet law gets an AI clause — but it's still just a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-internet-info-smart-service-draft) (2026-10-31): China's Internet Information Service Measures revision draft adds a 'smart information ser
- [Guiyang bets on a 'Token City' where AI output is metered, priced and traded](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-guiyang-token-city) (2026-10-31): Guiyang-Gui'an's 2026-2028 plan turns cheap compute into tradable AI tokens (词元), with 'to
- [Seven national standards turn China's AI agents from islands into a network](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-agent-interconnect-standard) (2026-10-31): China published GB/Z 185-2026, its first national standard system for agent interconnectio
- [The 'most-published ACL author' who bet China's large-model future on finance](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-ming-langboat) (2026-10-31): Zhou Ming, ex-Microsoft Research Asia NLP lead and ACL president, founded Langboat in 2021
- [Alibaba's co-founder is staking US$53B on becoming the 'operating system' of AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wu-yongming-alibaba) (2026-10-31): Wu Yongming, Alibaba's co-founder and CEO, is betting over US$53B on AI cloud and open-sou
- [From DJI to 80 startups: the HKUST professor seeding China's robotics surge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-li-zexiang-xbotpark) (2026-10-31): Li Zexiang, the HKUST professor behind DJI and XbotPark, has incubated 80+ robotics startu
- [Alibaba's Qwen2.5-VL Turns Documents and Screens into Actions, Not Just Answers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen25-vl-vision) (2026-10-31): Alibaba open-sourced Qwen2.5-VL in 3B, 7B and 72B sizes that reads hour-long video, turns 
- [Kimi k1.5 Matched OpenAI's o1 on Reasoning—Without Search Trees or Value Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k15-release) (2026-10-31): Moonshot's Kimi k1.5, released in January 2025, reaches OpenAI o1-level reasoning using a 
- [DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Brings 338 Languages and 128K Context to Open-Source Coding](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-coder-v2) (2026-10-31): DeepSeek open-sourced Coder-V2 in June 2024: a 236B-parameter MoE model that codes in 338 
- [Baidu's Qianfan 4.0 Bets the Enterprise AI Future on Agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-qianfan-40) (2026-10-31): At its August 2025 conference, Baidu upgraded Qianfan to 4.0—an agent-centric enterprise p
- [ModelWare and China Telecom pair edge-side AI with a national network](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-modelbest-chinatelecom-partnership) (2026-10-31): On Oct 12, 2026, edge-side model specialist ModelWare and China Telecom's AI arm signed a 
- [Huawei bets the Ascend ecosystem on partners, not just chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-ascend-ecosystem) (2026-10-31): At its June 2026 Guangzhou partner conference, Huawei reshaped Ascend from a chip story in
- [ByteDance's Seed2.1 turns Doubao into a working agent, not a chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-seed2-1-launch) (2026-10-31): Released June 23, 2026, ByteDance's Seed2.1 model family targets real productivity — codin
- [The Kirin 9030 teardown shows SMIC's DUV-only 5nm-class node is real — but not true 5nm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-n3-teardown) (2026-10-31): TechInsights and SemiAnalysis tore down the Kirin 9030 and found SMIC's N+3 is a dense 7nm
- [China's chip-equipment self-reliance hits 35%, but the weak spot moved to lithography](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-equipment-localization-35) (2026-10-31): China's semiconductor equipment localization reached 35% in early 2026, yet lithography an
- [China's CXMT starts HBM3E output at low yields, betting scale beats perfection](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-hbm3e-ramp) (2026-10-31): Reuters reports CXMT will begin limited HBM3E production despite 20-30% yields, a strategi
- [Huawei's Ascend 950PR reaches data centers as Huawei bets on a yearly AI-chip cadence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-950) (2026-10-31): Huawei's Ascend 950PR began shipping in 2026 on a one-generation-per-year plan, using supe
- [JiuZhang Yunji Files Hong Kong IPO as 'NeoCloud' Revenue Jumps Tenfold in Two Years](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-jiuzhang-yunji-hk-ipo) (2026-10-31): JiuZhang Yunji (DataCanvas, 九章云极) filed a HKEX prospectus on 29 Sep 2026, with revenue up 
- [China Merchants Group Lines Up a RMB 5B AI Fund Focused on Compute, Embodied AI and Transport](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-cmg-shenzhen-ai-fund) (2026-10-31): China Merchants Group (招商局集团) and Shenzhen's Guangming district will launch a ≤RMB 5B AI f
- [Beijing's Approaching.AI Raises RMB 1.3B in Series B as Inference Demand Surges](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-approaching-ai-series-b) (2026-10-31): Approaching.AI (趋境科技) closed a Series B above RMB 1.3B (≈US$183M) on 26 Oct 2026, taking i
- [China launches its first 128-channel fully implanted brain–computer interface trial](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-tiantan-128ch-implant-trial) (2026-10-31): Beijing Tiantan Hospital has opened the LEAP trial of a 128-channel implanted brain–comput
- [China's 2026 brain–computer interface standards push: from vocabulary to AI datasets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-standards-2026-guide) (2026-10-31): A 2026 draft guide sets China's plan for 40+ BCI standards by 2028 and 80+ by 2030; a new 
- [Can a brain–computer interface predict a seizure 7.5 seconds early?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-epilepsy-seizure-prediction) (2026-10-31): A Tsinghua team reports an embodied-intelligence brain–computer interface (脑机接口) forecasti
- [Shanghai opens a sham-controlled brain–computer interface trial for treatment-resistant depression](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-depression-neuromodulation-trial) (2026-10-31): A three-hospital trial (NCT07783906) tests closed-loop brain stimulation vs sham for treat
- [Inside China's AI pathology network that has screened 13 million women for cervical cancer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-landing-ai-pathology) (2026-10-31): Wuhan Lan Ding's AI digital pathology platform runs cervical-cancer screening across 31 pr
- [China's AI speaking coach teams up with the IELTS body to fix the country's weakest skill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-hiecho-oral-english) (2026-10-31): NetEase Youdao's Hi Echo virtual-human tutor, built on the Ziyue education large model, ha
- [Seventy AI 'clerks' joined a Shenzhen district — and redrew China's government service map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-12345-ai-hotline) (2026-10-31): From Shenzhen to Beijing, Chinese cities are wiring large models into the 12345 hotline, c
- [Zhipu's open-source GLM-Image bets that text is the hard part of AI art](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-zhipu-glm-image) (2026-10-31): Zhipu AI open-sourced GLM-Image, a 16B hybrid model that renders accurate Chinese and Engl
- [Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6, a multimodal model that writes video, images, and audio](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-xiaomi-mimo-v26) (2026-10-31): Xiaomi's MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6 (1T-param MoE) generates video, images, and audio from tex
- [Kling 4.0 turns a single prompt into a 30-second film](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-4-video) (2026-10-31): Kuaishou's Kling 4.0, live since Oct 15, extends native AI video to 30 seconds with cinema
- [China's digital-human livestream boom hits a regulator's deadline](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-digital-human-livestream) (2026-10-31): As five platforms passed ¥45.1 billion in AI digital-human livestream GMV in 618, a July r
- [Why autonomous mobile robots are becoming the default in Chinese warehouses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-warehouse-amr-china) (2026-10-30): China's warehouses and factories are swapping fixed conveyors for flexible autonomous mobi
- [Why China is sending robots into dams, ports and pipelines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-underwater-inspection-china) (2026-10-30): China is deploying underwater robots to inspect dams, ports, pipelines and subsea cables, 
- [Why Chinese hospitals are handing medicine runs to delivery robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hospital-delivery-china) (2026-10-30): Chinese hospitals are handing medicine, linen and specimen runs to delivery robots, easing
- [Why Chinese farms are betting on laser weeding robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agricultural-weeding-china) (2026-10-30): Laser weeding robots are spreading across Chinese farms as an aging workforce and chemical
- [7 cities, 100,000 datasets: China's state-led push to make AI training data pay](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-high-quality-datasets) (2026-10-30): Two national documents — a 2024 data-labeling opinion and a 2026 high-quality-dataset plan
- [From 20% to 50%: China's cities race to hand out 'computing-power vouchers' (算力券)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-computing-power-vouchers) (2026-10-30): Local governments across China now refund part of corporate AI training bills through 'com
- [In force since 2022, planned since 2025: China's dual-track AI medical-device rules](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-medical-device-review) (2026-10-30): China already enforces two AI medical-device review guidelines; a 2025 agency announcement
- [Lou Tiancheng: the TopCoder champion behind Pony.ai's US$452M Nasdaq debut](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lou-tiancheng-pony) (2026-10-30): How a competitive-programming prodigy became CTO of Pony.ai and pushed Robotaxi from demo 
- [Liang Wenfeng: the founder who built a frontier AI model for ~US$6M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liang-wenfeng-deepseek) (2026-10-30): How a former quant turned DeepSeek into a low-cost, open-weight challenger to the world's 
- [Chen Tianshi: the chip designer who took Cambricon past US$140B](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianshi-cambricon) (2026-10-30): How a former CAS researcher built China's best-known AI-chip company and rode the domestic

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