# 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 (39 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (107 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (113 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (108 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (105 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (99 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (88 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (78 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (74 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (74 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (78 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Yang Zhilin's Moonshot goes open-weight with Kimi K2 after a $2B round](https://neuroai.site/a/na-yang-zhilin-moonshot-kimi) (2026-10-27): How Tsinghua-trained researcher Yang Zhilin built Moonshot AI on long context and then piv
- [Wang Xingxing's Unitree turns humanoid robots into a shipped product](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wang-xingxing-unitree-robotics) (2026-10-27): How a 1990-born engineer built Unitree from a one-man workshop into a humanoid-robot maker
- [Unitree's RMB 694m C-round values humanoid robot maker at US$1.8bn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-unitree-c-round) (2026-10-27): Unitree (宇树科技) closed a RMB 694m (≈US$97m) C-round in June 2025 at a ~US$1.8bn valuation, 
- [Tencent's AI push lifts H1 revenue past ¥364B as capex triples](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tencent-h1-2025-ai-capex-payoff) (2026-10-27): Tencent reported H1 2025 revenue of 364.5 billion yuan (≈US$50.3B) with net profit up 16%,
- [SMIC stretches DUV lithography to 7nm and eyes 5nm without EUV](https://neuroai.site/a/na-smic-7nm-duv-foundry-ai) (2026-10-27): China's largest foundry is mass-producing 7nm-class chips with only DUV tools, becoming th
- [China's grid operator just put robot dogs on the world's largest utility shopping list](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-stategrid-embodied-procurement) (2026-10-27): State Grid's 2026 embodied-intelligence plan calls for about 8,500 robots worth ~¥6.8B, le
- [A robot-run hotel is opening on a bridge island between Shenzhen and Zhongshan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-pudu-fullscenario-hotel) (2026-10-27): Pudu Robotics and Shenzhen CTID will open the world's first full-scenario robot-serviced h
- [The invisible Beijing factory building humanoid robots for a dozen rival brands](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-lingyi-beijing-superfactory) (2026-10-27): Lingyi Precision's Beijing embodied-intelligence super-factory rolled out its first humano
- [One surgical robot now does multi-port, single-port and remote surgery on a single platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-edge-medical-threeinone-platform) (2026-10-27): Edge Medical's integrated multi-port, single-port and remote surgical platform won NMPA ap
- [Qwen3 ships hybrid thinking and eight open-weight models at once](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen3-hybrid-reasoning-open-weights) (2026-10-27): Alibaba's Qwen3 family pairs thinking and non-thinking modes across two MoE and six dense 
- [Alibaba's Qwen-Image goes open-source, targeting the text-in-images weakness](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qwen-image-open-source) (2026-10-27): Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image (通义万相), a 20B image model under Apache-2.0, wi
- [China publishes its first AI standards for the steel industry — three of them, all non-binding](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-steel-ai-standards) (2026-10-27): SAMR published three guidance standards (GB/Z 224, 231, 241—2026) for AI in steel — scenar
- [Jiangsu hands out three AI vouchers — token, corpus and model — up to ¥5M per firm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-jiangsu-ai-vouchers) (2026-10-27): Jiangsu's five departments launched token, corpus and model vouchers to cut AI costs; a si
- [China's foundational internet law grows an AI chapter — still a draft, not yet law](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-internet-info-law-ai-draft) (2026-10-27): Beijing reopened its 2000 internet rulebook for comment, adding a first-ever 'smart inform
- [China's compliance-audit rule makes personal-data checks a recurring duty](https://neuroai.site/a/na-personal-info-compliance-audit-rules) (2026-10-27): CAC Order No. 18, effective May 1, 2025, requires large personal-information handlers to a
- [A 15-year investor raises China's largest AI fund of 2026](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-mi-qun-glventures) (2026-10-27): Michael Mi's GL Ventures closed a dual-currency fund above 5 billion yuan in April 2026—th
- [Ex-Qwen chief builds a $2B agent lab before shipping a product](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-junyang-lin-pragmatik) (2026-10-27): Lin Junyang left Alibaba's Qwen team in March and, five months later, launched Pragmatik L
- [A math professor and a Chinese model close a 30-year conjecture](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-disheng-xu-ghys) (2026-10-27): Disheng Xu's team at Greater Bay University used Shanghai AI Lab's Shusheng-S2 model to pr
- [Peng Zhihui's AgiBot bets on open-source humanoids and a robot data engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-peng-zhihui-agibot-embodied-ai) (2026-10-27): How Huawei 'Genius Youth' Peng Zhihui built AgiBot around open hardware, a foundation mode
- [A 19-year-old played Black Myth: Wukong with his thoughts alone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuroxess-mind-controlled-games-chinese) (2026-10-27): Shanghai's NeuroXess used a 256-channel flexible implant to let an epilepsy patient play A
- [NEO becomes the world's first approved invasive brain-computer interface](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuracle-neo-world-first-invasive-bci-ap) (2026-10-27): China's NMPA cleared Neuracle's NEO, the first invasive BCI medical device approved anywhe
- [China's Network Data Security Regulations extend rules to AI training data](https://neuroai.site/a/na-network-data-security-regulations) (2026-10-27): State Council Order No. 790, in force since Jan 1, 2025, governs network data handling and
- [China's US$8.4bn national AI fund starts deploying into models and chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-national-ai-fund) (2026-10-27): The RMB 60.06bn (≈US$8.4bn) National AI Industry Investment Fund, set up in January 2025, 
- [Volcano Engine splits model access into four tiers with steep off-peak discounts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-volcengine-ark-tiered-pricing) (2026-10-27): ByteDance's Volcano Engine now sells model access in four subscription tiers and discounts
- [Ant Group's Ming-Omni folds text, image, audio and video into one open model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ming-omni-multimodal) (2026-10-27): Ant Group's inclusionAI has open-sourced Ming-Omni, a unified model that handles text, ima
- [Kimi K3.1 Pro puts a 3-trillion-parameter open-weight model within three points of the frontier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-kimi-k31-pro-open) (2026-10-27): Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro reaches 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the 
- [A Chinese research model helped prove a 30-year-old math conjecture](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-intern-s2-ghys-math) (2026-10-27): Shanghai AI Lab's Intern-S2 worked with mathematicians to resolve Ghys's conjecture in com
- [MiniMax lands Hong Kong IPO at top of range, raising HK$4.8bn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-hong-kong-ipo) (2026-10-27): MiniMax (稀宇科技) debuted on HKEX at HK$165, valuing the four-year-old AI lab above HK$100bn 
- [A professor-led Shenzhen lab became a humanoid unicorn on motion control alone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-limx-dynamics-b-round) (2026-10-27): LimX Dynamics' $200 million round shows investors will pay for walking algorithms, not jus
- [Kuaishou's Kling AI hits US$240M run-rate on text-to-video demand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kling-ai-revenue-run-rate) (2026-10-27): Kling AI (可灵) reported RMB 340M Q4 2025 revenue and a US$240M annual run-rate, showing Chi
- [Kimi K2: Moonshot open-sources a 1-trillion-parameter agent model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kimi-k2-open-agent-model) (2026-10-27): Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1T-parameter open-weight MoE tuned for tool use, and it qu
- [China's biggest retailer is quietly running robot warehouses and driverless delivery vans](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jd-logistics-robots) (2026-10-27): JD Logistics' "wolf" robot fleet and autonomous vehicles moved the country's 180-billionth
- [Huawei's Ascend 910C bets on cluster scale over single-chip speed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-huawei-ascend-910c-cluster-scale) (2026-10-27): With export controls capping single-chip performance, Huawei is wiring hundreds of Ascend 
- [HeyGen's digital humans hit ~US$100M run-rate on the back of 175 languages](https://neuroai.site/a/na-heygen-digital-humans) (2026-10-27): HeyGen, a China-rooted digital human (数字人) video platform, reported roughly US$100M ARR in
- [GLM-4.5 unifies reasoning, coding, and agent skills in one open model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-glm-4-5-agent-native-open-model) (2026-10-27): Zhipu's GLM-4.5 open-weights MoE folds reasoning, coding, and tool use into a single agent
- [A Shenzhen humanoid taught itself to walk like a person, then flipped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-engineai-se01-front-flip) (2026-10-27): EngineAI's SE01 turned a natural gait and a front flip into a funding surge led by JD.com.
- [DeepSeek-R1 proved open weights could reason like o1](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-r1-open-reasoning-model) (2026-10-27): Released January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 matched OpenAI's o1 on math and code under an MIT licen
- [China Built a State Company to Sell AI Its Raw Material](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-state-data-group) (2026-10-27): China's state data company is meant to turn scattered official records into datasets AI la
- [China's AI-for-Science Push Is Public Infrastructure, Not a Better Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-for-science-labs) (2026-10-27): Provincial platforms, robotic labs and new standards show where China's science-AI money g
- [CXMT races to mass-produce HBM3 and close China's memory gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-cxmt-hbm3-domestic-memory) (2026-10-27): Long a DRAM also-ran, ChangXin Memory is sampling HBM3 to Huawei and prepping mass product
- [Kingsoft Cloud turns its cloud into an agent (智能体) factory with AgentKit](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kingsoft-cloud-agentkit) (2026-10-27): Kingsoft Cloud posted record Q2 revenue and launched AgentKit, a one-stop base to move ent
- [A carmaker enters the home: Chery's Mojia unveils 0.9-meter companion robot Mobao (墨宝)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-chery-mojia-mobao) (2026-10-27): On Oct 21, Chery's Mojia Robot launched Mobao (墨宝), a 0.9-meter home companion humanoid (人
- [Ant Group merges three units into one Alipay team to bet on agentic (智能体) commerce](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-ant-alipay-reorg) (2026-10-27): On Sept 21, Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi folded Alipay's payment, business and credit arms into
- [UniVista's 3DIC design tool signals China's EDA shift from catch-up to frontier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-univista-3dic) (2026-10-27): At the 2026 IDAS summit, Shanghai's UniVista (合见工软) launched China's first 3D-IC physical 
- [Sunrise's LPDDR6 inference GPU bets cheaper tokens beat bigger flops](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sunrise-s3) (2026-10-27): China's Sunrise (曦望) shipped the first domestic LPDDR6 inference GPU, claiming up to 90% l
- [NIO's Shenji NX9031 turns the car chip from cost center to bargaining chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-nio-shenji) (2026-10-27): NIO's (蔚来) in-house Shenji NX9031, a 5nm car-grade driving SoC, is in mass production acro
- [ChangXin's LPDDR6 mass production puts China on the high-end memory map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-lpddr6) (2026-10-27): CXMT (长鑫存储) began volume production of LPDDR6 in August 2026 — the first global commercial
- [China's AI content labeling rules are now law — here is what creators must do](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-ai-content-labeling) (2026-10-27): Since September 1, 2025, every AI-produced text, image, audio, and video served in China m
- [Neolix Closes $400M Series E as State Fund Backs Driverless Delivery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-neolix-series-e) (2026-10-27): Neolix (新石器) raised nearly US$400M in a Series E co-led by Boyu Capital and a state AI fun
- [Micro-Intelligence Opens HK IPO Books, Then Hits Pause](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-micro-intelligence-ipo) (2026-10-27): Micro-Intelligence (微亿智造) opened a Hong Kong IPO to raise up to HK$800M, then delayed the 
- [China Telecom Launches $280M AI Fund With State and Shanghai Capital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-chinatelecom-ai-fund) (2026-10-27): China Telecom launched a RMB 2 billion (about US$280M) AI industry fund with Shanghai stat
- [Cambricon turns first profit as China's AI chip demand explodes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-cambricon-first-profit-ai-chip) (2026-10-27): The Beijing accelerator maker posted its first-ever annual profit in 2025 on 453% revenue 
- [ByteDance's Doubao tops 382M users and tests paid tiers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bytedance-doubao-382m-paid-tiers) (2026-10-27): ByteDance's Doubao reached 382 million monthly users per QuestMobile, while its cloud arm 
- [BrainCo files for Hong Kong IPO as non-invasive BCI goes commercial](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brainco-noninvasive-bci-unicorn-hong-kon) (2026-10-27): China's first BCI unicorn, BrainCo, closed a US$286M round and filed confidentially in Hon
- [A 501-patient tinnitus trial in Wuhan points to a non-invasive brain-computer interface fix](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-tinnitus-bci) (2026-10-27): Wuhan Zhongnan Hospital's non-invasive BCI tinnitus trial — the world's first ethics- and 
- [A Hefei prosthetic hand sells tactile feedback for under US$4,200](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-tactile-prosthetic-hand) (2026-10-27): Hefei startup Jingling Zhikang unveiled a non-invasive myoelectric prosthetic hand with ta
- [Guangdong's five-year brain-computer interface plan puts the tech on the insurance path](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-guangdong-cluster) (2026-10-27): Guangdong's 2026–2030 brain-computer interface plan targets a 10-billion-RMB core industry
- [BrainCo's 'Zhuanzhu Xin' turns an ADHD headband into a cleared medical device](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-adhd-neurofeedback) (2026-10-27): BrainCo's Zhuanzhu Xin (专注欣) neurofeedback system — software plus a forehead EEG sensor — 
- [Beijing's Beinao-1 lets paralyzed patients speak and move again](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beinao-one-clinical-trials-speech-decodi) (2026-10-27): The Beijing Brain Science Institute's Beinao-1 has been implanted in five patients, restor
- [Twenty humanoids lined up for a half marathon, and only one finished clean](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beijing-humanoid-half-marathon) (2026-10-27): Beijing's 2025 humanoid half marathon exposed the gap between demo robots and machines tha
- [A Chinese airport district gave 82,722 students one AI education network — rural schools included](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-zhengzhou-airport-ai-education) (2026-10-27): Zhengzhou's airport zone deployed iFlytek's Spark large model (大模型) across 120 schools in 
- [A mountainous county in China wired every clinic to one medical AI brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xiushan-biancheng-medical-ai) (2026-10-27): Chongqing's Xiushan county deployed a hospital-grade AI platform across 27 township clinic
- [A rice county in China let AI watch for pests so farmers could spray less](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-longquan-ai-pest-monitoring) (2026-10-27): Zhejiang's Longquan county deployed AI pest monitors across 733 hectares of rice, cutting 
- [Alibaba commits ¥380B to AI and cloud infrastructure over three years](https://neuroai.site/a/na-alibaba-380b-ai-cloud-infrastructure) (2026-10-27): Alibaba plans at least 380 billion yuan (≈US$52.4B) in cloud and AI infrastructure spend t
- [Vidu Q4 Preview turns generative video into per-second, controllable craft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-vidu-q4-video) (2026-10-27): ShengShu's Vidu Q4 Preview brings 15 reference images, 3 audio tracks and 4K output, with 
- [Tianpu Le V4.7 puts an AI music model inside a real guitar](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tianpule-ai-music-guitar) (2026-10-27): Quwan's Tianpu Le V4.7 adds remix and cover control, Tunee 3.0 closes the song-to-MV loop 
- [Qunhe's Lux3D generates PBR materials, not just geometry](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-qunhe-lux3d-3d) (2026-10-27): Qunhe's Lux3D turns text or one image into mesh, PBR materials and 3D Gaussians, with a fa
- [PixelCake 10.0 turns photo retouching into point-and-fix](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-pixcake-10-ai-spotfix) (2026-10-27): PixelCake 10.0 ships AI spot-fix: click a region, say what to change, and the edit happens
- [TAL's AI tutor is now in 50+ Chinese schools — and graded by a government lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-tutor-china-schools-rollout) (2026-10-27): TAL Education's Jiuzhang AI tutor app runs dual virtual teachers in 50+ schools, and its m
- [China's AI content labeling rules put a watermark on every synthetic post](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-synthetic-content-labeling) (2026-10-27): Four agencies' Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content and a mandatory nation
- [China's AI medical imaging clears 200 approvals as hospitals add a 'second reader](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-medical-imaging-china-rollout) (2026-10-27): China's drug regulator had approved 207 AI medical-device certificates by late 2025; deep-
- [Over 320,000 DJI crop drones flew China's fields in 2025 — and started lifting freight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-agricultural-drones-china-precision-farm) (2026-10-27): DJI Agriculture ran 320,000+ drones across Chinese farms in 2025; in Heilongjiang field-me
- [Tencent's The Five robot wants to help China's elderly stand up — and stay up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tencent-five-eldercare) (2026-10-25): Tencent Robotics X unveiled The Five (小五), a hybrid wheeled-quadruped elder-care robot in 
- [RoboSense reinvents itself as a robot 'parts and brains' supplier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-robosense-robotics-platform) (2026-10-25): LiDAR maker RoboSense (速腾聚创, 02498.HK) used its January 2025 'Hello Robot' event to reposi
- [Dobot's Hong Kong IPO makes collaborative robots a listed asset class](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-dobot-hkex-ipo) (2026-10-25): Shenzhen's Dobot (越疆) listed on HKEX on 23 December 2024 under 2432.HK, raising about HK$6
- [Deep Robotics' Lynx (山猫) turns stairs, slopes and 80-cm ledges into a walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-deeprobotics-lynx-allterrain) (2026-10-25): Hangzhou's Deep Robotics (云深处) launched the Lynx (山猫), a wheel-leg all-terrain robot in No
- [Two new national standards give AI operating systems a common rulebook](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-os-standards) (2026-10-25): China published two guidance national standards (GB/Z 299-2026 and GB/Z 300-2026) for AI o
- [China floats export curbs on large models and AI agents — but only as a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-export-control-draft) (2026-10-25): A draft revision (open for comment until Nov 15, 2026) would add 23 AI technologies — incl
- [China's State Council wants AI to create jobs, not just cut them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-employment-friendly) (2026-10-25): A State Council General Office opinion issued Oct 16, 2026 lays out 18 tasks to make AI em
- [Yu Kai's Horizon Robotics: from Baidu lab to a HK$5.4 billion Hong Kong debut](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yu-kai-horizon-founder) (2026-10-25): How machine-learning scientist Yu Kai left Baidu, founded Horizon Robotics in 2015, and to

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