# 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
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.
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## Topics

- [China AI Decoded](https://neuroai.site/c/decode): Explained · Evidence · Context (53 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (143 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (153 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (148 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (145 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (143 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (117 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (105 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (103 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (104 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (109 articles)

## Recent articles

- [The Robot Understands You Now; It Still Cannot Thread a Needle](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wang-xingxing-32-1105) (2026-11-05): November 4, Wuzhen. At the Internet Entrepreneurs Forum of the World Internet Conference, 
- [A Long Essay About Slowing Down, Under a Stack of Price Cuts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-dario-31-1105) (2026-11-05): September 12. Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, posted an essay on his own websi
- [Everyone Talked About Open Source; He Offered One Word: Foundation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-zhang-yaqin-30-1105) (2026-11-05): November 4, Wuzhen. The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit was under way, under 
- [In an Oil Country, a Chip Seller Draws a Cake](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jensen-kazakhstan-29-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 23, in Astana. At Kazakhstan's national artificial intelligence center, NVIDIA 
- [Bigger Data Centers, Money Flowing to Tiny Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-edge-chip-28-1105) (2026-11-05): You speak into your phone and the transcript appears without a wait. You drive onto the hi
- [A TV Doesn't Need a Brain of Its Own](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hisense-alibaba-27-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 4, two signing books lay on a table at a ceremony. On one side was Hisense, on
- [The Headset Didn't Sell, So It Became a Screen](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meta-vr-26-1105) (2026-11-05): At a launch event in late September, Meta showed a pair of glasses. There is no strap. It 
- [Two Tabs, Then One](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chatgpt-merge-25-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 2, some paying ChatGPT users opened the desktop app and found an email waiting
- [The World's Top Seat Has a New Occupant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nvidia-dow-24-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 3, after the U.S. market opened, Nvidia rose 2.32 percent and its market value
- [A Ten-Year Data Center Lease, Signed Before the Revenue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-debt-23-1105) (2026-11-05): The easiest thing to skip in a prospectus is the notes. In a document of more than 300 pag
- [One Quote Sheet, Revised Twice in a Month](https://neuroai.site/a/na-openai-cut-22-1105) (2026-11-05): On Friday, October 30, the Financial Times reported it first. Citing several people famili
- [A Five-Year-Old Company Is Knocking on Nasdaq's Door](https://neuroai.site/a/na-anthropic-ipo-21-1105) (2026-11-05): On the evening of October 26, a document of more than 300 pages went up on the website of 
- [Send Out a Quote, and This Business Has Finally Opened](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-video-biz-20-1105) (2026-11-05): Open an advertising agency’s rate card this year and a new line has appeared: AI video pro
- [Between Copying and Remixing, a Filing Form Appears](https://neuroai.site/a/na-copyright-action-19-1105) (2026-11-05): A five-person team now carries a budget line it never had before: compliance. Not much mon
- [A Photo’s ID Card, Due by the End of the Year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-eu-labeling-18-1105) (2026-11-05): An ordinary street scene, reworked by a model into a snowy night. Snow on the road, breath
- [The Soundstage Is Empty, and the Audience Is Still Waiting](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-drama-flood-17-1105) (2026-11-05): In Hengdian, rent a room, set up two computers, and a few young people can “shoot” three e
- [A Robot's First Real Job: Learning Every Box on the Pharmacy Shelf](https://neuroai.site/a/na-pharmacy-robot-16-1105) (2026-11-05): In a corner of the "Light of the Internet" expo in Wuzhen, a space has been fitted out as 
- [An American Company Built a Robot and Says It Has No Plans to Sell It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meta-fourier-15-1105) (2026-11-05): In the past month, a widely circulated story in robotics was not a new product launch. It 
- [The Robot Can Backflip. Now It's Being Sent to Fold Clothes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-show-14-1105) (2026-11-05): For two years, the most viral humanoid robot videos have had almost nothing to do with wor
- [The Robots JD Is Buying Mostly Don't Have Two Legs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jd-robots-13-1105) (2026-11-05): On the afternoon of November 4, in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, Cao Peng, chairman of JD Group's tech
- [The Most Common Chip in the Server Room Is a Different Kind Now](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-accelerator-12-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 13, Reuters obtained a report from IDC. It contained a set of numbers on accele
- [More Server Rooms, but the Keys Went to Two Tenants First](https://neuroai.site/a/na-compute-math-11-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 3, at a conference called Runtime 2026, Dylan Patel, founder of the semiconduc
- [A Warehouse of Chips Ordered, a Few Boxes Delivered](https://neuroai.site/a/na-rtx-delivery-10-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 4, Bloomberg published a report about deliveries. Several large Chinese artifi
- [One Rack, Two Price Tags](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nvidia-51-09-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 3, the Financial Times published a short report. Five unnamed people familiar 
- [On One Page, Two Numbers Orders of Magnitude Apart](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wuzhen-bluebook-08-1105) (2026-11-05): On the morning of November 4, in Wuzhen, two blue books sat on a lit table, one about the 
- [A Crowd of Assistants Learns to Swap Business Cards](https://neuroai.site/a/na-agent-pact-07-1105) (2026-11-05): Picture a scene that is not far off: you ask Company A's assistant to book a meeting room 
- [One Switch, and the Phone Gets a Different Assistant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-apple-qwen-06-1105) (2026-11-05): In the early hours of November 4, some developers' phones received a new beta build. After
- [A Model That Reads Pictures Now Clicks the Mouse](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-hy4-05-1105) (2026-11-05): On the morning of November 4, at Tencent's booth at the Light of the Internet Expo in Wuzh
- [Musk's Blindsight Is Still Waiting for One Approval](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuralink-blindsight-04-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 30, Musk posted on the social platform he owns about two Neuralink products: th
- [The Brain-Implant Threshold: Four Cases First, Two Years Later](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-standard-03-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 22, a notice appeared on the website of the medical device evaluation center un
- [The Factory Is Built, the Operating Table Is Still Empty](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-funding-02-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 4, Shanghai Active Intelligence Technology announced a 464 million yuan angel-
- [A Coin-Sized Implant, Now Waiting in Line to List](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-ipo-01-1105) (2026-11-05): In early November, one more name appeared on the pre-IPO tutoring register on the securiti
- [XAG's Farm Robots Reach 70 Countries as China's Second-Biggest Agri-Drone Maker Eyes a Hong Kong IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xag-agri-drone-global) (2026-11-05): Guangzhou-based XAG has turned agricultural drones and farm robots into a profitable globa
- [Spirit AI Raises 1.5 Billion Yuan A+ Round to Build the "Brain" for Humanoid Robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-spirit-ai-moz1-funding) (2026-11-05): Hangzhou startup Spirit AI has raised roughly 4.5 billion yuan in six months, betting that
- [Kepler's K2 Bumblebee Puts a Sub-$35,000 Humanoid on Real Factory Floors](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-kepler-k2-blue-collar-humanoid) (2026-11-05): Shanghai startup Kepler says its K2 Bumblebee humanoid is in mass production at a starting
- [Hai Robotics' Rack-Climbing Robots Top 10,000 as China's Warehouse Automation Goes Global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hai-robotics-acr-global) (2026-11-05): Shenzhen-based Hai Robotics says more than 10,000 of its rack-climbing warehouse robots ar
- [Hong Kong's Generative AI Guideline Takes the Soft-Law Path: Voluntary Rules for Developers, Providers and Users](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-hk-genai-guideline) (2026-11-05): Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office published a voluntary generative AI guideline in April 2
- [EU AI Act Timeline Reset: What the Digital Omnibus Changes for Global AI Builders](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-eu-ai-act-timeline) (2026-11-05): The EU AI Omnibus has pushed back high-risk obligations to December 2027 and August 2028, 
- [23 AI Technologies on the Table: What China's Draft Export-Control Update Means for Going Global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-tech-export-catalogue-draft) (2026-11-05): A draft revision of China's restricted technology export catalogue proposes controls on 23
- [XGBoost and TVM Creator Tianqi Chen Bets on the Layer Beneath the Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tianqi-chen-ml-systems) (2026-11-05): How Tianqi Chen turned open-source machine learning systems into quiet infrastructure that
- [ModelBest CEO Li Dahai Bets Small Models Will Win the Ground War](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-li-dahai-modelbest) (2026-11-05): From founding Google China engineer to Zhihu CTO to ModelBest CEO, Li Dahai argues the fut
- [Intellifusion Founder Chen Ning Bets the Next AI Battle Happens at the Edge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-ning-intellifusion) (2026-11-05): Chip architect turned returnee founder Chen Ning built Intellifusion on a simple wager: AI
- [MOSS-Image Brings Poster-Grade Typography to Open Text-to-Image](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-moss-image-open-typography) (2026-11-05): A 5B-parameter open text-to-image model from China's OpenMOSS team targets the hardest par
- [Open Weights Meet the Tax Code: Inside China's Lingjing Tax Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-lingjing-tax-llm-open) (2026-11-05): An 8.95B-parameter open model trained on 8,000-plus Chinese tax regulations aims at a prob
- [1,000 Domestic Chips Carried a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model Through Training](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v4pro-ascend-training) (2026-11-05): A Shenzhen consortium including Huawei ran full-parameter post-training for DeepSeek's 1.6
- [A 744B-Parameter Agentic Model Arrives Under an MIT Licence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-atria-dawn-open-agent-mit) (2026-11-05): Shanghai AI Laboratory has released the full weights of Atria Dawn, a 744B-parameter agent
- [Meta's Answer to the AI Cash Crunch: Non-Voting Class C Shares](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meta-class-c-ai-financing) (2026-11-05): Meta beats on revenue but burns cash as 2026 capex guidance rises to $135-145 billion, and
- [Apple's AI Reset: New Bench, a Custom Gemini Siri and a Pivot to Glasses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-apple-siri-reorg-ondevice) (2026-11-05): Apple rebuilds its AI leadership under Craig Federighi, plans a revamped Siri powered part
- [Amazon Bets a $220 Billion Year on Its Own AI Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-amazon-trainium-capex-bet) (2026-11-05): Amazon keeps its 2026 capex near $220 billion and doubles down on Trainium, betting that i
- [Samsung's Foundry Fightback Puts Texas on the AI Chip Map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-samsung-foundry-comeback) (2026-11-05): A $16.5 billion Tesla contract, a second Taylor fab booked for HBM base dies, and improvin
- [Intel's Foundry Comeback Now Runs Through Nvidia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-intel-foundry-nvidia-partnership) (2026-11-05): Nvidia's $5 billion stake and the 18A-built Panther Lake launch are turning Intel's foundr
- [Glass Substrates Are the Quiet Race to Pack More AI Into One Chip Package](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-glass-substrate-packaging) (2026-11-05): Intel, SKC's Absolics, and now TSMC are betting that glass can replace organic substrates 
- [OpenAI's Own Chip Shows Why Big AI Is Breaking Up With the GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-custom-ai-asic-wave) (2026-11-05): The nine-month sprint behind OpenAI's Jalapeño accelerator with Broadcom explains why hype
- [Sparse Computing Startup Moxin AI Raises Nearly RMB 1 Billion C+ Round for Inference Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-moxin-sparse-inference-c-plus-ro) (2026-11-05): Moxin AI closes a nearly RMB 1 billion (≈ US$140M / HK$1.1B) C+ round, its second large ra
- [Kuaishou-Backed Chip Spinout Lingchuan Technology Closes RMB 1 Billion Series B](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-lingchuan-video-chip-series-b) (2026-11-05): Lingchuan Technology, the video chip company spun out of Kuaishou, raises a RMB 1 billion 
- [GenRobot Closes US$100 Million Series A+ to Scale Robot Training Data Infrastructure](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-genrobot-robot-data-infrastructu) (2026-11-05): GenRobot, the Beijing embodied data startup founded in 2025, raises US$100 million (≈ RMB 
- [Starfish Neuroscience Bets on Many Tiny Brain Implants Instead of One Big One](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-starfish-multiregion-chip) (2026-11-05): Backed by Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, Starfish unveiled a 2x4 mm, 1.1 mW chip designed f
- [Meta's Neural Wristband Turns a Flick of the Wrist Into a New Way to Use Computers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-meta-neural-band-emg-wrist) (2026-11-05): Meta shipped an EMG wristband that reads muscle signals for touch-free control, making neu
- [Neuralink's Blindsight Is Ready for Regulators, Not Yet for Patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-blindsight-cortical-vision) (2026-11-05): Elon Musk calls the Blindsight implant engineering-ready, but no vision-restoration trial 
- [Apple Now Treats Brain Implants as a Native Input Source for iPhones](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-apple-bci-hid-native-input) (2026-11-05): Apple's BCI HID protocol lets implanted brain-computer interfaces control iPhone, iPad and
- [China's Telecom Towers Now Double as AI Forest-Fire Watchtowers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tower-ai-forest-fire-watch) (2026-11-05): Provinces across China are mounting cameras and fire-spotting algorithms on telecom towers
- [From Watching to Predicting: China's Fengyun Weather Satellites Get Their First Extreme-Weather AI Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-fengyun-extreme-weather-ai-models) (2026-11-05): China's satellite meteorology agency has put two AI models into operational use — one that
- [Amap's Wheelchair Navigation Now Covers 70 Chinese Cities](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-amap-wheelchair-navigation) (2026-11-05): Amap's barrier-free navigation has grown from three cities to more than 70, handling over 
- [One Photo, One Voice Track: ByteDance's OmniHuman Makes Single-Image Digital Humans a Mainstream Tool](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-omnihuman-one-photo-digital-human) (2026-11-05): ByteDance's OmniHuman model line and its rollout inside Jimeng AI have moved digital human
- [MiniMax's Hong Kong Bet: Hailuo AI Video Demand Turns From Consumer App Into Enterprise Engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-minimax-hailuo-enterprise-turn) (2026-11-05): MiniMax's Hong Kong listing and its first-half report show the maker of Hailuo AI shifting
- [Kunlun's Matrix-Game 3.5: Open-Source World Models Reach Real-Time Playable Generation on One GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kunlun-matrix-world-model) (2026-11-05): At WAIC 2026, Kunlun Tech released and open-sourced Matrix-Game 3.5, a 5B-parameter world 
- [DomoAI's Discord-First Play: How an Anime Restyle Tool Built a Five-Million-Creator Business Overseas](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-domoai-anime-restyle-overseas) (2026-11-05): DomoAI turned video-to-video anime restyling into a global subscription business, built in
- [At under US$16,000, China's Unitree G1 puts a humanoid in every lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-g1-global-dev) (2026-11-04): Unitree's G1 turned the humanoid from a six-figure showcase into a sub-US$16,000 developer
- [China's Walker S2 humanoid swaps its own battery in 3 minutes — and never stops working](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s2-autoswap) (2026-11-04): UBTECH's Walker S2 solves the robot-shift problem with a hot-swappable dual-battery system
- [Neolix has put 10,000 driverless delivery vans on the road — and just raised US$600M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-autonomous-delivery) (2026-11-04): Neolix, the Beijing robovan maker, claims the world's largest L4 autonomous-delivery fleet
- [From rehab beds to humanoids: Fourier's GR-2 bets that caregiving is the real market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-gr2-healthcare-bridge) (2026-11-04): Fourier Intelligence, built on rehabilitation robotics, is steering its GR-2 humanoid and 
- [China coded its AI safety baseline into national standards — training data, models, and oversight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-baseline-standard) (2026-11-04): A 2023 draft guidance for generative-AI safety became an adopted national standard in 2025
- [China has passed zero unified AI laws — and the flagship bill is still just a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-law-draft-stage) (2026-11-04): Despite years on the legislative calendar, China's comprehensive Artificial Intelligence L
- [China mandates dual labels on AI-made content: visible marks and invisible watermarks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-11-04): A four-agency rule now forces Chinese AI tools to tag their own output with both on-screen
- [Wang Haifeng built the stack under Baidu's search box — and China's first open deep-learning platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-haifeng-baidu) (2026-11-04): How Wang Haifeng (王海峰), Baidu's CTO, turned language research into PaddlePaddle (飞桨) and t
- [Wang Changhu bet on text-to-video at PixVerse — and reached 100 million users before most rivals shipped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-changhu-pixverse) (2026-11-04): How a former ByteDance visual-technology chief turned a Douyin-era labeling playbook into 
- [Chen Tianshi bet on a chip built only for neural networks — and shipped it in a phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianshi-cambricon) (2026-11-04): How Chen Tianshi (陈天石) co-founded Cambricon (寒武纪) with his brother and pushed the 'deep le
- [355B params, MIT license: how Zhipu's GLM-4.5 bundles reasoning, code, and agents in one model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm45-open-agent) (2026-11-04): Zhipu's GLM-4.5 is an open-weight MoE that tries to fuse reasoning, coding, and agentic to
- [Eight sizes, one license: how Alibaba's Qwen3 turned open weights into a deployment ladder](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-open-family) (2026-11-04): Alibaba's Qwen3 family ships in eight open-weight configurations — from a 0.6B model for a
- [1 trillion parameters, 32B active: how Moonshot's Kimi K2 made frontier scale downloadable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k2-open-trillion) (2026-11-04): Moonshot's Kimi K2 is an open-weight trillion-parameter MoE that activates just 32B tokens

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