# 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 (37 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (95 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (101 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (96 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (93 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (87 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (79 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (69 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (65 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (65 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (69 articles)

## Recent articles

- [A robot-brain startup raises ≈¥3 billion in a month as Lei Jun and Jack Ma team up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xsquare-brain-funding) (2026-10-24): X Square Robot (千寻智能) closed a ¥1 billion round co-led by Lei Jun's Shunwei and Jack Ma's 
- [Ant Group leads its third bet on cable-driven robot maker Astribot in a year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-stardust-astribot-cabledriven) (2026-10-24): Stardust Intelligence (星尘智能), selling robots under the Astribot brand, says it is the firs
- [MicroPort MedBot's Toumai surgical robot finds its growth story abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-micropot-medbot-2025) (2026-10-24): MicroPort MedBot's 2025 revenue reached RMB 551 million, with overseas sales at 73% of the
- [China publishes first humanoid-robot rulebook as 140 firms race to ship](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-standard-system) (2026-10-24): On February 28, 2026 Beijing released the first national standard system for humanoid robo
- [China amends patent examination rules to cover AI and data inventions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-patent-examination) (2026-10-24): China's patent office revised its examination guide effective 1 January 2026, adding a ded
- [China issues rules for AI that mimics human interaction](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-anthropomorphic-interaction) (2026-10-24): Five agencies issued interim measures for anthropomorphic AI interaction services, effecti
- [China issues guidance and standards for autonomous AI agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-agent-governance) (2026-10-24): Three agencies issued May 2026 guidance for AI agents, paired with a seven-part recommende
- [The XPeng robotics veteran now building humanoids that walk like people](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhao-tongyang-engineai) (2026-10-24): Zhao Tongyang left XPeng's robotics unit to found EngineAI, whose SE01 humanoid is markete
- [The Johns Hopkins-trained scientist who steered Mobvoi from voice assistants to an AIGC listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-li-zhifei-mobvoi) (2026-10-24): Li Zhifei founded Mobvoi in 2012, took it public in Hong Kong in 2024, and now runs an AI-
- [A Tsinghua lab spinout is betting humanoid robots earn their keep in logistics](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-jianyu-robotera) (2026-10-24): Chen Jianyu turned a Tsinghua research lab into RobotEra, whose full-size humanoids now so
- [Qwen-Image makes multilingual text rendering an open-weight strength](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-image) (2026-10-24): Alibaba's 20B open-weight image model targets the weakest spot of most generators: renderi
- [Can a 10B-active model punch like a 230B? MiniMax M2 makes the case](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minimax-m2) (2026-10-24): MiniMax M2 is an open-weight 230B mixture-of-experts model that activates only 10B paramet
- [Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0 turns a single image into a textured 3D model, openly](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuan3d-2) (2026-10-24): Released in January 2025, Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0 splits 3D asset creation into a shape st
- [DeepSeek V3.2 bets on sparse attention for cheaper long context](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v32) (2026-10-24): Released December 1, 2025, DeepSeek V3.2 keeps the 671B-parameter MoE scale of its line bu
- [China's Robotaxi Export Is an Operating Model, Not a Car](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-robotaxi-operations-export) (2026-10-24): Chinese robotaxi firms are exporting depots, remote-desk ratios and licence playbooks alon
- [Data Can Leave China — Unless a Ministry Has Called It Important](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-data-export-important-data) (2026-10-24): China's data-export rules turn on a designation rather than a volume, and free-trade-zone 
- [Tencent Cloud reaches scaled profitability on the back of AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-cloud-ai-profit) (2026-10-24): Tencent says its cloud unit reached scaled profitability in 2025 as AI demand lifted ads, 
- [Can Kuaishou's Kling carry the company beyond short video?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kuaishou-kling-ai-video) (2026-10-24): Kuaishou says its Kling video-generation model reached a US$240 million annual revenue run
- [ByteDance's Seedance pushes video generation toward director-grade control](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bytedance-seedance-video) (2026-10-24): ByteDance's Seed team released Seedance 1.0 in 2025, a 1080p video model that ranked first
- [Alibaba's XuanTie ships a server-grade RISC-V core for AI-era compute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-xuantie-riscv) (2026-10-24): Alibaba's XuanTie C930, a server-grade RISC-V core, began delivery in March 2025 with SPEC
- [VeriSilicon's backlog tops RMB 5B as cloud-AI ASIC orders reshape a design house](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-verisilicon-ip) (2026-10-24): VeriSilicon posted 2025 revenue of RMB 3.15B (US$444M; HK$3.47B), up 36%, with backlog rea
- [Hygon's C86-plus-DCU bet: a self-contained compute stack for Chinese AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-hygon-dcu) (2026-10-24): Hygon posted 2025 H1 revenue of RMB 5.46B (US$769M; HK$6.01B), up 45% YoY, as it pairs x86
- [Hua Hong's Wuxi FAB9 ramps as China's No. 2 foundry leans into 12-inch wafers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-huahong-foundry) (2026-10-24): Hua Hong posted 2025 revenue of RMB 17.29B (US$2.44B; HK$19.0B), up 20%, as its Wuxi FAB9 
- [Cambricon posts first annual profit as AI-chip demand surges](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-cambricon-2025) (2026-10-24): Cambricon reported 2025 revenue of 6.5 billion yuan (US$0.9 billion) and its first annual 
- [Black Sesame's Hong Kong IPO: what a 27% first-day drop reveals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-blacksesame-hk-ipo) (2026-10-24): Black Sesame Technologies raised HK$1.04 billion in its August 2024 IPO but closed its fir
- [Alibaba's 380 billion yuan AI infrastructure bet, explained](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-alibaba-ai-capex) (2026-10-24): Alibaba committed at least 380 billion yuan (US$53.5 billion) to AI and cloud infrastructu
- [A Sichuan hospital makes brain–computer interface rehab part of daily care](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-stroke-rehab-clinic) (2026-10-24): Mianyang Central Hospital has run non-invasive brain–computer interface rehab since March 
- [China builds a rulebook for the privacy of brain data](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-neural-data-ethics) (2026-10-24): China's science ministry issued neurotechnology ethics guidelines on 23 July 2025 that fra
- [Seven departments chart China's brain–computer interface industrial roadmap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-national-policy) (2026-10-24): Seven Chinese ministries issued a 2025 BCI industry plan targeting 2–3 global leaders and 
- [Hubei sets the first government-guided prices for brain–computer interface care](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-medical-pricing) (2026-10-24): Hubei priced three brain–computer interface (脑机接口) procedures on 31 March 2025, with invas
- [China's traffic lights are starting to follow the road, not the clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-traffic-signal-control) (2026-10-24): Pilots in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hefei let AI adjust signal timing in real time, 
- [The chatbot that reads the statute book: AI enters China's legal-aid services](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-public-legal-aid) (2026-10-24): Cities like Jingmen and Wuhan have added AI legal assistants to public service lines, cutt
- [The inspector that never blinks: AI visual checks move from demo to the line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-industrial-quality-inspection) (2026-10-24): On Chinese factory lines, AI vision systems now flag defects at up to 99.9% accuracy and h
- [Alibaba's Wan2.1 opens video generation to anyone with a consumer GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-wan-video) (2026-10-24): Alibaba's open-source Wan2.1 puts capable text-to-video and image-to-video generation on c
- [Seedream 3.0 and the quiet war over text inside generated images](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedream-image) (2026-10-24): ByteDance's Seedream 3.0 leans on readable Chinese-and-English text inside images to set i
- [Hyper3D's Rodin turns a photo into a 3D model in seconds — but who cleans it up?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-rodin-3d) (2026-10-24): Deemos' Hyper3D Rodin generates textured 3D models from a photo or prompt in seconds, thou
- [Mureka's bet: AI music you can own, license, and resell](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-mureka-ai-music) (2026-10-24): Kunlun Wanwei's Mureka platform tries to turn generated music into ownable, licensable, an
- [Xiaomi's CyberOne V2 is quietly working real shifts inside its own EV plant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xiaomi-cyberone-v2) (2026-10-23): Xiaomi's second-generation humanoid (人形机器人) has spent months on a Beijing EV line, reachin
- [Roborock's vacuum grew an arm — and started tidying your socks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-roborock-saros-z70) (2026-10-23): The Saros Z70 is the first mass-produced robot vacuum with a folding five-axis arm (机械臂), 
- [Dust costs solar farms money — Chinese firms are sending robots up the panels](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-pv-cleaning-robots) (2026-10-23): From desert plants to factory rooftops, a wave of Chinese PV cleaning robots (光伏清洗机器人) is 
- [China's construction sites are slowly handing the dangerous jobs to robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-construction-robots-china) (2026-10-23): Bright Dream Robotics (博智林), a Country Garden unit, has fielded 1,700+ construction robots
- [China's first national standard for government large models sets a security floor](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-government-llm-standard) (2026-10-23): GB/T 48324—2026, the country's first recommended national standard for government-affairs 
- [China's AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 pushes risk control into the full stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-governance-framework-3) (2026-10-23): Released at the 2026 National Cyber Security Publicity Week, the AI Safety Governance Fram
- [China's new mandatory standards draw a hard line between driver assist and self-driving](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-adas-autonomous-driving-safety-st) (2026-10-23): Two mandatory national safety standards — GB 47955—2026 for combined driving assistance an
- [Zhu Songchun: the vision scientist who returned to build a child-minded AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhu-songchun-bigai) (2026-10-23): Peking University's SongChun Zhu left UCLA to lead BIGAI and build "TongTong" (通通), a valu
- [Wang Tao: how a C-grade helicopter project became the world's drone leader](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-tao-dji) (2026-10-23): The reclusive founder of DJI turned a crashed graduation project into a company holding ro
- [Chen Tianqiao: the gaming billionaire who staked US$1B on the brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianqiao-brain-science) (2026-10-23): How Shanda's founder redirected a US$1 billion fortune from online games to fundamental br
- [Step 5 Preview goes open-weight and lands at number two on OpenRouter](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-step5-preview-open-weights) (2026-10-23): StepFun open-sourced a 600B MoE built for long-horizon agents, and real developers are alr
- [iFlytek bets on fully domestic compute with Spark X2.6 and an end-cloud split](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-x26-domestic) (2026-10-23): iFlytek's Spark X2.6 runs entirely on homegrown chips and routes work between device and c
- [Tencent rebuilds Hunyuan from the ground up and open-sources Hy3 preview](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-hunyuan-hy3-preview-open) (2026-10-23): After tearing down its training stack, Tencent shipped Hy3 preview — a 295B MoE with fast/
- [Doubao-Seed-2.1 Pro turns coding and agents into a volume game](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-doubao-21-pro-coding-agent) (2026-10-23): ByteDance's flagship now backs 180 trillion daily tokens at prices roughly 80% under Claud
- [Two Prices for the Same Kind of Chinese Model Lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-model-lab-valuation) (2026-10-23): Zhipu and MiniMax published half-year results in 2026 while Moonshot closed a private roun
- [China Proposed an Export-Control List for Its Own AI Models. Read the Exemptions.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-export-controls) (2026-10-23): A 16 October 2026 draft adds 23 AI technologies to China's export catalogue. API access an
- [Xiaomi ships three in-house chips, betting on an AI compute base across phone, edge and car](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xiaomi-xring-o100) (2026-10-23): Xiaomi's XRING O3, O100 and D100 cover flagship phone, on-device AI acceleration and auton
- [Pudu Robotics runs its overseas revenue past 80%, betting on service bots beyond China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-pudu-global-expansion) (2026-10-23): Shenzhen's Pudu Robotics says it leads the global commercial service-robot market with 130
- [DeepSeek opens V4 with 1-million-token context and a two-tier model line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-deepseek-v4-launch) (2026-10-23): DeepSeek released V4 in April 2026 as open weights under an MIT license, shipping a 1M-tok
- [NAURA's 2024 results show China's broad-line equipment maker is scaling with the fabs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-naura-equipment-scale) (2026-10-23): NAURA reported 2024 revenue of RMB 29.84 billion, up 35%, with semiconductor equipment pas
- [Loongson's 3C6000 server chip bets on a third CPU ecosystem beyond x86 and ARM](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-loongson-3c6000-server-cpu) (2026-10-23): Loongson launched the 3C6000 server CPU on the LoongArch instruction set in June 2025, sca
- [Enflame's market debut puts a self-built AI accelerator maker under the spotlight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-enflame-ai-accelerator-ipo) (2026-10-23): Enflame listed on the SSE STAR Market in September 2026 after growing revenue to RMB 990 m
- [AMEC's 2024 results and new edge etcher signal a maturing Chinese toolmaker](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-amec-etching-equipment) (2026-10-23): AMEC posted 2024 revenue of RMB 9.07 billion, up 44.7%, with etching equipment at RMB 7.28
- [Rope-driven robot maker Stardust hits ¥15B valuation on ¥1B round](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-stardust-ai-15b-valuation) (2026-10-23): Stardust Intelligence (星尘智能) closed a ¥1B round at a ¥15B valuation, led by Shenzhen Inves
- [Beijing state fund leads Huixi's ¥2.5B embodied-intelligence chip raise](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-huixi-intelligent-25b-funding) (2026-10-23): Huixi Intelligent (辉羲智能) closed Pre-B+ and B rounds pushing its 2026 equity financing past
- [Emotional-companion robot EIR lands Sichuan's first ¥100M Pre-A](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-eir-emotional-robot-prea) (2026-10-23): Sichuan Embodied Tech (四川具身科技), maker of the emotional-interaction robot Ai Qiu (爱湫), clos
- [Zhejiang University's spinal implant lets paralyzed patients stand and walk again](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-zju-spinal-bci-walking) (2026-10-23): A closed-loop spinal-cord neural interface from Zhejiang University and its affiliated hos
- [SceneRay (景昱医疗) wins world-first approval for a brain implant that treats drug addiction](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-sceneray-addiction-dbs) (2026-10-23): China's NMPA cleared SceneRay's dual-target deep brain stimulation system in December 2025
- [PINS Medical (品驰医疗) ships "super brain pacemaker" G108R after 18 years of domestic DBS work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-pins-super-pacemaker) (2026-10-23): The Beijing maker's G108R DBS, approved by NMPA in March 2026, charges in 30 minutes a wee
- [Beinao-1 (北脑一号): 128-channel wireless implant returns movement and speech to paralyzed patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-beinao1-wireless-bci) (2026-10-23): Beijing Brain Institute's semi-invasive wireless BCI has been implanted in six patients, d
- [Xiong'an's 'AI Agronomist' Turns a Phone Photo Into a Pest Diagnosis in 5 Seconds](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xiongan-ai-farm-model) (2026-10-23): Xiong'an's '雄小农 (Xiongxiao Nong)' model, built on China Telecom's SenNong base and DeepSee
- [Shenzhen's AI-Assisted Court System — 35 Million Tasks, Judges Still Decide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shenzhen-ai-court) (2026-10-23): Shenzhen runs the world's first full-process AI-assisted adjudication system, lifting judg
- [AI Mental-Health Stations Reach 300 Chinese Schools — Humans Still in the Loop](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-school-ai-mental-health) (2026-10-23): From Tsinghua-backed chat cabins to iFlytek stress-relief apps, Chinese schools are scalin
- [NetEase closes the loop on AI music — write a song, ship it, get paid](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-netease-tianyin-ai-music) (2026-10-23): NetEase's 天音 AI songwriting studio now spans lyrics, melody, voice and one-tap release ins
- [Kling 4.0 turns AI clips into shippable, sound-on video](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-4-audiovisual) (2026-10-23): Kuaishou's 可灵 AI video model added native audio, 4K HDR and a commercial API toolkit — the
- [China's animation studios are quietly handing the pipeline to AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-animation-china) (2026-10-23): From Bilibili's creator tools to Yuewen's IP experiments and iQIYI's mid-length plan, Chin
- [360's "nano-pipeline" bets on industrial-grade AI comic-drama](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-360-manju-pipeline) (2026-10-23): A 360-backed platform says it can hold character faces and scenes stable across hundreds o
- [XPeng is building humanoid robots the way it builds cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xpeng-iron-line) (2026-10-22): XPeng launched a car-grade automated line for its IRON humanoid, betting that vehicle manu
- [Can a humanoid robot keep a battery plant running around the clock?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galbot-catl-battery) (2026-10-22): Galbot's heavy-lift robot has worked continuous 24-hour shifts inside CATL's battery lines
- [Why Beijing's robot games are starting to look like a job fair](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-beijing-games-work) (2026-10-22): At the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, the real contest was not sprinting but folding lau
- [Can a humanoid robot survive a real factory shift?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-factory-shift) (2026-10-22): Eight humanoid robots ran a six-day, unscripted shift inside a live tablet factory in Nanc
- [China's "vehicle-road-cloud" bet: 20 cities rewire the street for self-driving](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-vehicle-road-cloud-pilot) (2026-10-22): A 2024–2026 pilot has 20 Chinese cities build roadside sensors and cloud systems so autono
- [China's ethics-review rule: build the committee before you build the model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-tech-ethics-review-measures) (2026-10-22): A 2023 trial measure makes Chinese universities, hospitals, and AI firms form an ethics co

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