# 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>.
Institutional, press, reprint and translation enquiries: https://neuroai.site/press

## Topics

- [China AI Decoded](https://neuroai.site/c/decode): Explained · Evidence · Context (31 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (83 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (89 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (84 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (81 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (76 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (70 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (60 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (58 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (56 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (60 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Unitree's record IPO puts a US$8.5 billion price tag on humanoid robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-star-ipo) (2026-10-21): Yushu Technology's STAR Market listing priced at 150.80 yuan a share, valuing the quadrupe
- [China's warehouses and fire crews are strapping on powered exoskeletons](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-industrial-exoskeleton-china) (2026-10-21): Powered exoskeletons are moving from labs to Chinese logistics hubs and fire brigades, qui
- [Fourier's GR-3 care humanoid bets that being touchable matters more than being strong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-gr3-carebot) (2026-10-21): Shanghai's Fourier built the GR-3, a 165 cm care-focused humanoid wrapped in soft skin, be
- [How Ecovacs turned household chores into a global home-robotics business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ecovacs-service-robots-global) (2026-10-21): From an OEM vacuum maker in Suzhou to a multi-category home-robotics brand sold in 180 cou
- [Shenzhen's AI stimulus: over RMB 1.1 billion a year in vouchers and grants for compute, data and models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-shenzhen-ai-pioneer-city) (2026-10-21): Shenzhen's "AI Pioneer City" measures hand companies annual vouchers for compute, training
- [China's first large-model standard: 3 parts, one yardstick for what "good" means](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-large-model-national-standard) (2026-10-21): The GB/T 45288 series turns "how capable is this large model" from vendor marketing into a
- [China's algorithm filing rule: a switch to turn off the feed, and a ban on "big-data price gouging](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-algorithm-recommendation-rule) (2026-10-21): The Algorithm Recommendation Management Provisions (互联网信息服务算法推荐管理规定), in force since 1 Mar
- [A paralyzed gamer beat his inventor at Mario: Tao Hailong and China's soft brain-computer interface](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tao-hailong-neuroxess) (2026-10-21): Tao Hailong (陶虎), founder of NeuroXess (脑虎科技), is betting on flexible cortical implants — 
- [He Xiaopeng bets XPeng's future on AI cars, flying cars and humanoid robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-he-xiaopeng-xpeng) (2026-10-21): The UCWeb founder who sold to Alibaba for USD 4.35 billion now runs XPeng as an "AI-define
- [The century's most-cited AI paper was written in Beijing — by Kaiming He](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-he-kaiming-resnet) (2026-10-21): How a Guangzhou-born researcher's 2015 ResNet paper quietly became the scaffolding under m
- [Step 3: a 321B open multimodal model designed to decode cheaply on Chinese chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-step3-open-multimodal) (2026-10-21): StepFun (阶跃星辰) open-sourced Step 3, a 321B MoE that reads images and text and is engineere
- [MiniMax-M1: a 456B reasoning model with a 1-million-token window trained for $534,700](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-m1-hybrid-reasoning) (2026-10-21): Shanghai's MiniMax (稀宇科技) open-sourced M1, a 456B hybrid-attention reasoning model with a 
- [Kimi K2: a 1-trillion-parameter model that put a Chinese lab on top of the open-source leaderboard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k2-open-agent) (2026-10-21): Moonshot AI (月之暗面) open-sourced Kimi K2, a 1T-parameter MoE tuned for coding and agents, a
- [GLM-4.5: Zhipu's agent-native 355B model that ships under a permissive MIT license](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-glm45-agent-native) (2026-10-21): Zhipu AI (智谱), now branded Z.ai, released GLM-4.5, a 355B open-weight MoE built to reason,
- [MiniMax doubles on Hong Kong debut, valued near US$14 billion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-minimax-hong-kong-ipo) (2026-10-21): The Shanghai AI lab behind Hailuo (海螺) video and Talkie listed on HKEX in January 2026, ri
- [Meituan's LongCat goes open-source: a 560B-parameter bet from a food-delivery app](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meituan-longcat-open-source) (2026-10-21): The company behind 30-minute meal delivery has released LongCat (龙猫), an open-weight MoE m
- [Baidu's Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) goes global: Uber, Lyft and 22 cities](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-apollo-go-overseas) (2026-10-21): Baidu is shipping its driverless ride-hailing service to the Middle East and Europe throug
- [YMTC (长江存储) ships 294-layer NAND and licenses its hybrid-bonding patents to Samsung](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ytmc-xtacking-nand) (2026-10-21): China's leading 3D NAND maker turned a homemade architecture into a global patent asset, t
- [Inside SMIC's N+2 line — Huawei's AI chips built at ~30% yield, with EUV off the table](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smic-nplus2-foundry) (2026-10-21): China's largest foundry is making 7nm-class silicon for Huawei's Ascend with DUV multi-pat
- [The 2025 EDA blackout lasted five weeks — and accelerated China's chip-design software push](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eda-domestic-substitution) (2026-10-21): When the US briefly barred Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens from selling EDA tools to China i
- [CXMT (长鑫存储) races to HBM mass production — three years behind, one AI boom ahead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-dram-hbm) (2026-10-21): China's only large-scale DRAM maker is scaling fast and betting on HBM for AI, but still t
- [Zhipu raises HK$4.3B in Hong Kong — the planet's first large-model (大模型) IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-zhipu-hk-ipo) (2026-10-21): Beijing Zhipu Huazhang (02513.HK) listed on HKEX on 8 January 2026, raising HK$4.3B and be
- [Unitree prices its STAR Market IPO at RMB 150.80 — China's first humanoid (人形机器人) maker goes public](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-unitree-star-ipo) (2026-10-21): Unitree (宇树科技) cleared its STAR Market review in 73 days and set an IPO price of RMB 150.8
- [China's US$8.4B national AI fund (国家人工智能产业投资基金) makes its first robot bet — RMB 2.5B for Galaxy General](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-national-ai-fund-galbot) (2026-10-21): The 600.6-billion-yuan National AI Industry Investment Fund, seeded by the Phase III Big F
- [A Coin-Sized Implant Let a Paralyzed Man Run an E-Commerce Shift — for Four Hours](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-stairmed-implant-work) (2026-10-21): StairMed (阶梯医疗) placed a 256-channel implantable brain-computer interface (脑机接口) in patien
- [A Chinese Startup Built Its Own Brain-Interface Chip — and That Rewrites the Supply-Chain Math](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuramatrix-bci-chip) (2026-10-21): NeuraMatrix (宁矩科技) taped out a home-grown brain-computer interface (脑机接口) ASIC in 2021 and
- [China Tried a Third Route for Brain Implants — Through the Blood Vessels, Not the Skull](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-interventional-bci-nankai) (2026-10-21): Nankai University's Duan Feng (段峰) team ran the first human interventional brain-computer 
- [The Non-Invasive BCI That Skipped the Skull — and Already Ships 100,000 Units](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-brainco-noninvasive-bci) (2026-10-21): BrainCo (强脑科技) bets on non-invasive brain-computer interface (脑机接口): a bionic hand that re
- [70 built, 100 promised: Shanghai's smart nursing homes put a sensor under every mattress](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shanghai-smart-nursing-homes) (2026-10-21): Shanghai's three-year plan to build 100 "smart nursing homes" (智慧养老院) by end-2025 uses mat
- [From 1,320 to 28,000 in a year: the AI study room boom filling China's after-school gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-study-rooms-k12) (2026-10-21): After the 2021 "double reduction" (双减) policy shrank tutoring, AI-equipped study rooms exp
- [One photo, 55 health signals: Airdoc's retinal AI leaves the hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-retinal-screening-primary-care) (2026-10-21): Airdoc's NMPA-cleared retinal-AI, first approved in China in 2020, now flags 55 lesion and
- [Alibaba's 20-billion-parameter Qwen-Image turns in-picture text into its open-source edge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-qwen-image) (2026-10-21): Released in August 2025, Qwen-Image is a 20B open-source image model that renders Chinese 
- [MiniMax's Hailuo video app hit 42 million users before its Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-minimax-hailuo) (2026-10-21): MiniMax listed on the HKEX on Jan 9, 2026; its Hailuo AI (海螺AI) video tool had drawn 42 mi
- [China's 'silicon labor' bet: one firm shipped 100,000 digital humans yet stays in the red](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-digital-human) (2026-10-21): Nanjing Silicon Intelligence (硅基智能) delivered over 100,000 digital-human agents and leads 
- [China now makes every AI video, image and voice clip show a label — yet most platforms still miss it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-content-labeling) (2026-10-21): The AI-generated content labeling rule (人工智能生成合成内容标识办法) took effect Sept 1, 2025, but a 25
- [Zhang Yalin's Enflame: the AMD veterans building China's AI training chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-zhang-yalin-enflame) (2026-10-20): Fudan engineer Zhang Yalin co-founded Enflame in 2018 with ex-AMD colleague Zhao Lidong; t
- [Giving the Blind a Language the Visual Cortex Can Read: China's Visual BCI Bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-xinsheng-vision-cortical-prosthesis) (2026-10-20): Xinsheng Vision raised a near-100-million-yuan (≈ US$14m / HK$110m) seed round for an inva
- [Xiaomi open-sources its embodied-intelligence models and signals a robotics push](https://neuroai.site/a/na-xiaomi-open-source-embodied-models) (2026-10-20): Xiaomi open-sourced two embodied-intelligence foundation models in July 2026 and reported 
- [Can a 600-billion-parameter model keep pace with the trillion-parameter giants?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-step-5-preview-flagship-moe) (2026-10-20): StepFun's Step 5 Preview pairs a 600B sparse model with a one-million-token window and ope
- [Industrial AI agent maker SmartMore files for Hong Kong listing at US$1.23 billion value](https://neuroai.site/a/na-smartmore-hkex-ipo-filing) (2026-10-20): SmartMore filed a Hong Kong IPO prospectus on March 16, 2026, disclosing US$153 million 20
- [A cluster of Chinese surgical robots just cleared the regulator in 2026](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ropa6-orthopedic-surgery-robot-nmpa) (2026-10-20): Three Chinese surgical-robot platforms won NMPA clearances in early 2026 — a whole-orthope
- [The building where robots rehearse elderly care](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qingdao-care-robot-training) (2026-10-20): Qingdao built China's first public training ground for care robots (康养机器人), where 45 firms
- [China's power-grid warehouses are putting robots on the night shift](https://neuroai.site/a/na-power-grid-robots-warehouses-substations) (2026-10-20): From Tianjin to Yunnan, State Grid and China Southern Power Grid are deploying digital cle
- [China's largest chip-equipment maker shows what self-reliance costs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-naura-chip-equipment-self-reliance) (2026-10-20): NAURA's 2025 revenue reached about ¥39.4 billion, up 31%, but profit slipped as the Beijin
- [Inside the farm where a pig's cough becomes a data point](https://neuroai.site/a/na-muyuan-ai-pig-farming) (2026-10-20): Muyuan and Alibaba Cloud run a pig-farming large model (大模型) across 1,173 farms on 3.3 mil
- [MiniMax M2 bets that a compact coding model beats a giant on cost](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-m2-compact-coding-moe) (2026-10-20): MiniMax M2 is a 230B sparse model that activates only 10B per token, released under MIT fo
- [Meitu's AI pivot: can a beauty app become a paid design studio?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meitu-ai-image-design) (2026-10-20): Meitu's image-and-design products now drive 80 percent of revenue, with paid subscribers a
- [Three Chinese tech firms fuse light and silicon to chase a cheaper AI compute stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meikeshensi-biren-stepfun-photonic-compu) (2026-10-20): MakeSens, Biren Technology and StepFun signed a strategic alliance in Beijing to build a p
- [The homework AI that grades, explains — and sometimes misreads](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jiuzhang-ai-tutor-grading) (2026-10-20): TAL's Jiuzhang large model (大模型) powers learning devices used in millions of homes; we loo
- [AI compute cluster builder Jiliu files Hong Kong IPO after US$73 million 2025 revenue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jiliu-ai-compute-cluster-ipo) (2026-10-20): Jiliu filed a Hong Kong IPO prospectus on April 29, 2026, revealing US$73 million 2025 rev
- [iFlytek's SoundViewAI: can one Chinese video become 100 language versions?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-iflytek-soundview-ai-video-dubbing) (2026-10-20): iFlytek's SoundViewAI turns a single Chinese clip into dubbed, subtitled versions across m
- [Tencent's Hunyuan 3D engine: can a text prompt print a game-ready asset?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-3d-creation-engine) (2026-10-20): Tencent's Hunyuan 3D engine turns a sentence, photo, or sketch into a usable 3D model in m
- [China's assisted-driving chip supplier crosses ten million shipments](https://neuroai.site/a/na-horizon-journey6-ten-million) (2026-10-20): Horizon Robotics' Journey family passed ten million units shipped by August 2025, with its
- [Bo Hong's NEO: the minimally invasive brain implant moving from a Tsinghua lab to clinics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hong-bo-neo-brain-implant) (2026-10-20): Tsinghua neuroscientist Bo Hong spent two decades building NEO, a coin-sized implant that 
- [China's robot-data drought gets a 100,000-hour open-source refill](https://neuroai.site/a/na-guanglun-egosuite-robot-data-dataset) (2026-10-20): At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Beijing's Guanglun released EgoSuite-Open100K — 100,00
- [Guangdong Puts AI to Work Across Every Industry](https://neuroai.site/a/na-guangdong-all-industry-ai-plan) (2026-10-20): Guangdong's new application plan pushes artificial intelligence from showcase demos into f
- [No Surgery, Just a Map: How a Beijing Firm Targets the Brain Without Opening It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-galaxy-pbfs-noninvasive-neuromodulation) (2026-10-20): Galaxy Brain Science (银河脑科学) divides each person's brain into 213 functional zones and sti
- [DeepSeek V4 Preview makes a million-token context the default, not the premium](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-v4-preview-million-context) (2026-10-20): DeepSeek V4 Preview ships a 1.6T Pro model and a leaner Flash variant with a one-million-t
- [China Approved the Self-Driving Car Before It Wrote the Liability Rule](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-l3-liability-gap) (2026-10-20): Two L3 cars were cleared in December 2025 and a mandatory safety standard lands in 2027, b
- [China Is Issuing Certificates for Data. Here's What They Actually Prove](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-data-property-registry) (2026-10-20): A national register now certifies who holds, uses and sells a dataset. It is a compliance 
- [The Compute Voucher: How Chinese Provinces Subsidise AI Demand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-compute-voucher) (2026-10-20): Provincial rebates cover 20–30% of a company's compute bill, but only on approved supplier
- [The Listing Is the Funding Round: How China Pays for AI Chip Design](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-chip-listings-funding) (2026-10-20): China's four GPU startups now raise money by going public rather than by earning it, and t
- [China's Draft Rulebook for Medical AI, Explained](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-medical-ai-draft-rulebook) (2026-10-20): A September 2026 draft of China's AI medical-device review guidelines would extend the rul
- [China's fruit-picking robots are finally working next to human crews](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-harvest-robots-from-lab-to-field) (2026-10-20): In 2026 field trials across Shanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang, apple, tomato and jujube robots pi
- [China's homegrown chip-design software is closing its longest gaps](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-eda-toolchain-gaps) (2026-10-20): Empyrean's 2025 filings show its design tools now cover most analog and digital steps, wit
- [China's advanced-packaging upstart is turning chiplets into its main business](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-chiplet-advanced-packaging-sjsemi) (2026-10-20): SJ Semiconductor listed in April 2026 with chiplet integration already its top segment at 
- [China's AI content labeling rules: what changed when the 'digital ID' became mandatory?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-10-20): China's AI-generated content labeling rules took effect on 1 September 2025, requiring bot
- [Chen Jianyu's Robot Era: the Tsinghua lab building humanoids that go to work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chen-jianyu-robot-era) (2026-10-20): Tsinghua assistant professor Chen Jianyu founded Robot Era in 2023 to build humanoids and 
- [ByteDance's Seed 2.1 targets production coding, not demo chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bytedance-seed-2-1-coding-agent) (2026-10-20): ByteDance's Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo focus on coding agents and long-horizon tasks with a 25
- [A Thin Film on the Brain's Outer Wall: How Beijing's "Beinao-1" Trials a Half-Invasive Implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beijing-neurowei-beinao-one-semi-invasiv) (2026-10-20): NeuroWei's Beinao-1 (北脑一号) places a 128-channel film electrode on the brain's outer wall i
- [Beijing's Plan to Build an AI Innovation Highland](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beijing-ai-innovation-highland) (2026-10-20): Beijing's 2026 action plan targets its artificial-intelligence core industry passing 1 tri
- [Building the Operating Rooms First: How Chinese Hospitals Prepare for Scalable Brain Implants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-surgery-platforms-hospitals) (2026-10-20): Before brain–computer interfaces (脑机接口) can scale, someone has to build the rooms and ward
- [Shenzhen rope-driven robot maker closes US$141 million round at US$2.1 billion value](https://neuroai.site/a/na-astribot-rope-robot-funding-round) (2026-10-20): StarDust AI closed a US$141 million round led by a Shenzhen state-backed fund, lifting its
- [01.AI and CP Group launch a farming joint venture run by AI agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-01ai-cp-wanfeng-ai-agriculture) (2026-10-20): 01.AI and agribusiness giant Charoen Pokphand formed Wanfeng Intelligent, a profit-sharing
- [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

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