# 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)

## Topics

- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (44 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (49 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (48 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (39 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (39 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (37 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (27 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (28 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (26 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (27 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Unitree's 18 kg As2 robot dog delivers 90 N·m for farms and power lines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-as2) (2026-10-05): Unitree unveiled the As2 quadruped on 24 February 2026 — an 18 kg, IP54 field robot with 9
- [UBTECH's Liuzhou factory rolls out a Walker humanoid every 10 minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-line) (2026-10-05): UBTECH commissioned a 14,000 m² Liuzhou plant with 10,000-unit annual capacity where Walke
- [Nineteen NMPA nods later, China's surgical robots challenge da Vinci at home and abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-edge-surgical-localization) (2026-10-05): As of 25 August 2026 China held 19 laparoscopic surgical-robot certificates; Edge Medical'
- [China's picking robots harvest 5,000 apples per charge as orchards face a labour gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agri-picking) (2026-10-05): From apple arms to tomato grippers, Chinese picking robots now work real orchards and gree
- [China builds 8 western computing hubs to power its AI future](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-east-data-west-computing) (2026-10-05): China's 'East Data West Computing' (东数西算) links 8 national hubs to shift AI training west,
- [Eight free-trade zones quietly redraw China's data-export red lines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-export-negative-list) (2026-10-05): China's free-trade zones publish negative lists letting most business data exit without a 
- [Shanghai alone commits ¥10B in vouchers to cut AI compute bills](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-computing-vouchers) (2026-10-05): From Shanghai to Chengdu, cities issue 'computing vouchers' (算力券) covering up to 30% of AI
- [UBTECH's Zhou Jian let a humanoid ring the HKEX bell, then aimed at the home](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-jian-ubtech-humanoid) (2026-10-05): Zhou Jian founded UBTECH in 2012 and listed it in Hong Kong in 2023, sending the Walker hu
- [Nankai's Duan Feng threads a brain–computer interface into a vein — no skull opened](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-duan-feng-interventional-bci) (2026-10-05): Nankai's Duan Feng led the first interventional brain–computer interface human trial, lett
- [Chen Yunji's DianNao taught chips to think like neurons before the AI boom](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-yunji-cambricon-chip) (2026-10-05): Chen Yunji of CAS designed DianNao, the first deep-learning processor, seeding Cambricon a
- [A Chinese MoE model cracked the world's top six for under $3 million](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-yi-lightning-moe) (2026-10-05): 01.AI's Yi-Lightning used a Mixture-of-Experts design to reach arena top six on a shoestri
- [Alibaba's 32B coder beat GPT-4o on code tests and stays free to host](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-coder) (2026-10-05): Qwen2.5-Coder is a permissively licensed code model that rivals closed coders while runnin
- [A 1.3-billion-parameter model puts GPT-class vision inside your phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-minicpm-edge) (2026-10-05): ModelBest's MiniCPM squeezes a multimodal AI into phones and laptops, cutting the server b
- [Shanghai lab's open model tops 70% on expert vision test, rivals GPT-4o](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-internvl) (2026-10-05): InternVL 2.5 from Shanghai AI Lab is a fully open multimodal family that matches closed le
- [Zhipu's GLM-5.3 reaches US Cursor and German Aleph Alpha as shares jump 5%](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-zhipu-glm53-goes-global) (2026-10-05): Beijing's Zhipu (智谱) saw Hong Kong shares rise 5% after US coding tool Cursor and Germany'
- [Cambricon's 700-TFLOPS Siyuan 690 becomes the compute base for China's top open models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-cambricon-siyuan690-domestic-comput) (2026-10-05): Cambricon (寒武纪) mass-produced its 700-TFLOPS Siyuan 690 (思元690) chip in 2026 and now ships
- [Alibaba throws its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max fully open to the world](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen38-open-weights) (2026-10-05): Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter large model (大模型) anyone can do
- [China's 8-core RISC-V AI CPU earns Ubuntu, eyes the server rack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-spacemit-riscv-ai-cpu) (2026-10-05): SpacemiT (进迭时空) ships an 8-core RISC-V AI CPU with Ubuntu support, betting on edge and ser
- [China's 2.5D packaging jumps to 3.3× reticle, packing more AI dies per package](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sjsemi-2-5d-packaging) (2026-10-05): SJ Semiconductor (盛合晶微) extended its 2.5D silicon-interposer platform to 3.3× reticle, eas
- [This 10-watt chip runs a 70B model locally by refusing to move data](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-houmo-inmemory-compute) (2026-10-05): Houmo's (后摩智能) SRAM compute-in-memory chip M50 hits 160 TOPS at 10W, mass-produced in 2026
- [Black Sesame's 1,000-TOPS chip chases L4 autonomy while fusing cockpit and driving](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-blacksesame-automotive-ai) (2026-10-05): Black Sesame (黑芝麻智能) ships cockpit-driving fusion chips and a 1,000-TOPS Huashan A2000 as 
- [Z.AI Pulls $5B From Hong Kong Markets to Fund a Self-Training Bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-zai-hongkong-5b-raise) (2026-10-05): Z.AI, the listed successor to Zhipu AI, raised about US$5 billion through a Hong Kong shar
- [Moonshot's Quiet Hong Kong Filing Puts a $50B Lab on the Clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-moonshot-hk-ipo-filing) (2026-10-05): The Beijing lab behind Kimi filed a confidential Hong Kong IPO to raise about US$3 billion
- [ByteDance Spins Out Drug Lab With $290M Round at $1.5B Valuation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-anew-labs-bytedance-spinout) (2026-10-05): Anew Labs, carved out of ByteDance, raised US$290 million at a US$1.5 billion valuation to
- [Chinese retinal implant lets a blind woman write "China" with her mind](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-visual-prosthesis-retinal) (2026-10-05): In 2026 a 40-year-old woman blind from retinitis pigmentosa received a 320-channel retinal
- [No surgery, no implant: Chinese lab sends signals deep into the brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-temporal-interference-stimulation) (2026-10-05): A Chinese Academy of Sciences team showed in NeuroImage (2024) that temporal-interference 
- [Brain–computer interface helps "locked" coma patients show they are awake](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-disorders-of-consciousness) (2026-10-05): At Beijing Tiantan Hospital, non-invasive brain–computer interface tools are being used to
- [Closed-loop spinal stimulator reads its own signal to kill chronic pain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-closed-loop-scs-chronic-pain) (2026-10-05): Chinese developers have launched closed-loop spinal-cord stimulation trials for drug-resis
- [One AI model names 8,800 crop pests from a single field photo](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-topcloud-agri-pest-ai) (2026-10-05): Top Cloud-Agri's (托普云农) See-Insect (见虫) model IDs 8,800+ pests and its Wen Ji (问稷) agent a
- [This AI reads 95% of hidden eye disease — and just won China's top cert](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-oct-ai-eye-diagnosis) (2026-10-05): A UESTC-built AI that reads OCT eye scans for macular degeneration earned China's first Cl
- [iFlytek's grading machine now reads 6 million homework pages a day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-iflytek-ai-education-grader) (2026-10-05): iFlytek's Spark (星火) intelligent grader (智能批阅机) runs in 2,000+ Chinese schools, returning 
- [Alibaba Wan2.7-Image ends the "AI same-face" era with 9-face control](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-wan27-image-editing) (2026-10-05): Alibaba's Wan2.7-Image unifies text-to-image, editing and 12-language text rendering, targ
- [MiniMax H3 open-weights 2K video with native audio at one-third the price](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-minimax-h3-video) (2026-10-05): MiniMax open-sourced its H3 omni-modal video model on Aug 3, generating 2K clips with sync
- [JD's Oxygen Vision generates 10 market-ready product shots from one SKU in minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-jd-oxygen-vision) (2026-10-05): JD's 京点点 Oxygen Vision lets merchants auto-generate product images, AI models and videos, 
- [China's Rodin Gen-2.5 prints ten-million-face 3D models in 4 seconds, 80% overseas](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-deemos-rodin-3d) (2026-10-05): Deemos' Rodin Gen-2.5 builds tens-of-millions-of-polygon 3D assets in seconds, with about 
- [A Chinese surgical robot (手术机器人) performed a cross-border operation at 20 ms latency](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-toumai-telesurgery) (2026-10-04): MicroPort MedBot's Toumai (图迈) surgical robot (手术机器人) completed the first intra-EU remote 
- [Meituan's delivery drones cleared 780,000 orders — with Dubai and Hong Kong live](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-meituan-drone) (2026-10-04): Meituan's drone delivery (无人机配送) network passed 780,000 orders across six cities by end-20
- [The world's first warehouse-robot IPO launched in Hong Kong, not Silicon Valley](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-geekplus-ipo) (2026-10-04): Geek+ (极智嘉) became the first publicly listed autonomous mobile robot (AMR, 自主移动机器人) wareho
- [Singapore let a Chinese robot dog (机器狗) into its power tunnels — and saved 480 worker-hours a year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-deeprobotics-powerdog) (2026-10-04): DEEP Robotics' X30 quadruped is now inspecting Singapore's underground cable network, a sm
- [China's data-center rules cap power at 1.25 and send AI west](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-center-green-energy) (2026-10-04): Beijing's 2024 Special Action Plan for Green and Low-Carbon Data Centers sets hard power-e
- [China cleared 154 AI medical devices — and 80% carry the strictest approval stamp](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-medical-device-approvals) (2026-10-04): Behind China's fast-growing AI healthcare market sits a hard regulatory gate: the National
- [China's "AI + Education" action plan puts AI in every classroom by 2030](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-education-action-plan) (2026-10-04): A five-ministry 2026 action plan makes AI a required thread from primary school to univers
- [He left UCLA for Beijing to build an AI that says 'no': inside Zhu Songchun's (朱松纯) general-intelligence bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhu-songchun-tongtong) (2026-10-04): Zhu Songchun (朱松纯), a top computer-vision scientist who spent 28 years in the US, returned
- [From Microsoft Bing to 250 startups: how Lu Qi (陆奇) became China's AI founder-whisperer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lu-qi-miracleplus) (2026-10-04): Lu Qi (陆奇) ran search at Microsoft and Baidu, then built MiraclePlus (奇绩创坛), one of China'
- [How a Shanda founder turned a gaming fortune into a US$1 billion brain-science mission](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianqiao-brain) (2026-10-04): Chen Tianqiao (陈天桥), who built China's largest online-game company, walked away from the i
- [Xiaomi's open MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open-weight chart — at 13 cents a task](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-xiaomi-mimo-v26-open) (2026-10-04): Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a full-modal model it says leads open weights on Artifi
- [StepFun's open-weight "Flash" model is built for agents, not chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-stepfun-step37-flash-agent) (2026-10-04): StepFun open-sourced Step 3.7 Flash, a 196B MoE model tuned for tool-calling and long agen
- [iFlytek puts a 1-million-token context on a 4B edge model — and it runs offline](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-x25-edge) (2026-10-04): iFlytek open-sourced Spark X2.5-4B and 1.7B edge models with a native 1M-token context, be
- [China built its own yardstick for AI models — and it grades differently than the West](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-china-own-llm-yardstick) (2026-10-04): SuperCLUE, an independent Chinese benchmark, now scores models on hallucination control an
- [NetEase's AI isn't one chatbot — it's 40 million game companions and a music factory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-netease-ai) (2026-10-04): NetEase has woven AI into games, music production, office earbuds and industrial robots th
- [Meituan's 1.6-trillion-parameter LongCat runs on Chinese chips — and is free to download](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meituan-longcat) (2026-10-04): Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained and served entire
- [CloudWalk's CongRong beat Google on a global multimodal test — with one unified model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-cloudwalk-congrong) (2026-10-04): CloudWalk's CongRong large model topped the OpenCompass global multimodal leaderboard in 2
- [The light pipes feeding AI: how Chinese optical modules became indispensable](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-silicon-photonics-interconnect) (2026-10-04): As AI clusters hit an interconnect wall, China's pluggable optical-module makers — Innolig
- [RISC-V reaches the AI server: China's open-chip answer to ARM](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-riscv-ai-xuantie) (2026-10-04): Alibaba's T-Head XuanTie C930 brings the free, open RISC-V instruction set into server-gra
- [The software chokepoint: how a 2025 EDA curbs episode rattled China's chip design](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-domestic-eda) (2026-10-04): When the US told Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens to halt EDA sales to China in May 2025, it 
- [China's self-driving brains just hit 10 million — and the hard part is next](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-automotive-ai-horizon) (2026-10-04): Horizon Robotics passed 10 million shipped Journey (征程) automotive AI chips by mid-2025, b
- [Mech-Mind's Hong Kong IPO sells the "eyes and brains" of China's robot boom](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-mechmind-ipo) (2026-10-04): Mech-Mind Robotics listed in Hong Kong in September 2026, raising up to HK$2.7 billion by 
- [Ant Group's 12th robot bet is a home companion, not a factory arm](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ant-zeroth-robot) (2026-10-04): Ant Group led a roughly RMB 500 million (≈ US$70 million) pre-Series A in Zeroth, a Suzhou
- [China's ¥60 billion AI fund takes a $197 million stake in Kling (可灵)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-fund-kling) (2026-10-04): The National AI Industry Investment Fund (国家人工智能产业投资基金), a RMB 60 billion state vehicle, i
- [China's first brain–computer interface cluster is already home to 52 firms](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-shanghai-cluster-52-firms) (2026-10-04): Shanghai's "Brain-Smart World (脑智天地)" is the country's first dedicated brain–computer inte
- [The mood switch: how Chinese clinics are closing the loop on depression and addiction](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-psychiatric-depression-addiction) (2026-10-04): At Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai and SceneRay in Suzhou, brain–computer interface (脑机接口) and
- [Two standards in a single month: how China built the rulebook for brain–computer implants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-china-first-bci-standards) (2026-10-04): China's drug regulator published the country's first brain–computer interface (脑机接口) medic
- [A $286 million bet on brainwaves: inside China's non-invasive BCI unicorn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-brainco-noninvasive-ipo) (2026-10-04): BrainCo (强脑科技), the Hangzhou neurotechnology company spun out of Harvard, closed a ≈ US$28
- [Yangshan's unmanned quay cleared 8 million boxes — and China is now exporting the blueprint](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-yangshan-smart-port) (2026-10-04): Shanghai's Yangshan Phase IV is the world's largest automated container terminal, running 
- [Huawei's AI weather model beats Europe's gold standard — and does it in 10 seconds](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-pangu-weather-model) (2026-10-04): Huawei's Pangu Weather large model became the first AI system to out-forecast traditional 
- [Baidu's AI sign-language anchor let 27 million deaf viewers watch the Olympics live](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-baidu-sign-language) (2026-10-04): Built on Baidu's digital-human platform, an AI sign-language anchor translated live Olympi
- [After a HK$200M deepfake heist, China forces labels on AI-cloned voices](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-voice-cloning-rules) (2026-10-04): Following high-profile voice-cloning fraud, China's deep-synthesis rules and 2025 labeling
- [Open-source text-to-3D just became good enough for real game pipelines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-text-to-3d-opensource) (2026-10-04): Tencent's Hunyuan3D and startup VAST's Tripo open-weighted 3D generators are letting studi
- [From 380,000 hours to ¥10 billion: digital humans take China's livestreams](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-digital-humans-livestream) (2026-10-04): China's e-commerce platforms are deploying AI digital humans (数字人) as round-the-clock live
- [China made AI-generated content carry a mandatory watermark — what it means globally](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-content-labeling) (2026-10-04): As of September 1, 2025, China requires every AI-generated text, image, audio and video to
- [China's First Long-Term Implant Lets a Limbless Patient Play Games by Thought](https://neuroai.site/a/na-stairmed-longterm-implant) (2026-10-03): Shanghai's StairMed completed China's first long-term invasive BCI implant trial; a four-l
- [Meituan's delivery drones cleared 740,000 orders — then won the first nationwide license](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-meituan-drone-delivery) (2026-10-03): Meituan (美团) runs one of the world's largest drone-delivery networks — 65 routes and 740,0
- [Before the humanoid hype, Fourier was already building robots that help people walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-rehab-exoskeleton) (2026-10-03): Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶) turned rehabilitation robotics into its core business — exoskel
- [Dobot and JAKA: how two Chinese cobot makers turned 80 countries into a market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-china-cobots-global) (2026-10-03): Collaborative robots (协作机器人) from Dobot (越疆) and JAKA (节卡) now ship worldwide — Dobot list
- [100 robots, 1 million tasks: inside AgiBot's embodied-AI data engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-world-dataset) (2026-10-03): AgiBot (智元机器人) open-sourced AgiBot World, a million-trajectory real-robot dataset built by
- [China's New Training-Data Rules Put Copyright and Quality on the Same Checklist](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-training-data-copyright) (2026-10-03): Three national standards effective November 1, 2025 spell out how AI training data must be
- [China's AI-Content Labeling Rule Is Now Live — Here's How Platforms Comply](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-content-labeling) (2026-10-03): Since September 1, 2025, every AI-generated text, image, audio, and video in China must ca
- [China Adds a Comprehensive AI Law to Its 2026 Legislative Agenda](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-law) (2026-10-03): China has folded a comprehensive artificial-intelligence law into its 2026 legislative wor
- [Wang Xiaochuan traded the search wars for a medical-AI moonshot at Baichuan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xiaochuan-baichuan) (2026-10-03): From Sogou's founder to Baichuan's medical-AI bet — how an internet veteran is staking Chi
- [Inside Zhipu's GLM roadmap with chief scientist Tang Jie](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tang-jie-zhipu) (2026-10-03): Tsinghua professor and Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie built the GLM (大模型) line behind China's f

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