# 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 (9 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (14 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (12 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (9 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (8 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (8 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (5 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (4 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (4 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (4 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Unitree's Founder Drew a Line: 80% of Places, 80% of Tasks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wang-xingxing-80x80) (2026-09-10): Wang Xingxing says embodied AI's real bottleneck is generalisation, and proposes a thresho
- [JD Will Buy 3 Million Robots — and Hire 100,000 People to Fix Them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jd-3-million-robots) (2026-09-10): At its 2026 tech conference JD committed to 3 million robots, 1 million unmanned vehicles 
- [From Crystal Slippers to Walking Shoes: What China's BCI Industry Is Short Of](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-crystal-slippers) (2026-09-10): China's BCI market is around RMB 3 billion today, forecast at RMB 12 billion by 2030. A Ts
- [Ant Group Open-Sourced a 124B Multimodal Model — and Taught It to Check Its Own Work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ant-open-multimodal) (2026-09-10): Ling-3.0-flash-VL activates only 5.5B of 124B parameters, reads 256,000 tokens at once, an
- [47,000 AI Micro-Dramas Uploaded in a Month. The Money Moved to the Assembly Line](https://neuroai.site/a/na-47000-ai-microdramas-pipeline) (2026-09-10): AI comic-drama uploads went from ~20,000 in January to 47,000 by March. The hit rate is 0.
- [WeChat Open-Sourced the Model That Reads a Billion Posts a Day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wechat-open-sources-embedding) (2026-09-09): Tencent's WeMM-Embedding ships in 2B, 4B and 9B sizes; the 9B tops MMEB-v2 at 80.6. It alr
- [DeepSeek Is Hiring 150 People. Not One Is an AI Researcher](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-hires-150-no-researchers) (2026-09-09): DeepSeek opened ~150 roles in server-side development and agent elastic computing — zero A
- [DeepSeek Cut API Prices 60% — and the Cheapest Part Is Memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-cuts-cache-prices) (2026-09-09): From 10 September 2026, DeepSeek's Flash series offers off-peak cache-hit inputs at ¥0.02 
- [China's Brain–Computer Interface Programme Has Now Passed 40 Human Implants](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-40-implants) (2026-09-09): Beijing-backed NEUCYBER says its semi-invasive BeiNao-1 system has been implanted in more 
- [95% of New Chinese Micro-Dramas Are Now AI-Generated](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-microdrama-95-percent) (2026-09-09): A vertical short-drama app has more daily users than China's four biggest streaming platfo
- [The Robots Already in Your Hotel Corridor: 114,600 Units, and a Hong Kong Listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-114600-delivery-robots-listing) (2026-09-09): Udeer Robotics listed in Hong Kong on 9 September 2026 with over 114,600 delivery robots s
- [400 Humanoid Models, 80% of Global Shipments: Inside China's Robot Scale-Up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-humanoid-400-models) (2026-09-08): Chinese makers now ship more than 400 humanoid models — over half the world's total — and 
- [Brain Implants Meet the Rulebook: Inside China's Push to Standardise BCI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-standards-rulebook) (2026-09-08): In 2026 brain–computer interfaces entered China's Government Work Report and five-year pla
- [A 30B Model Now Runs on a Phone. The Bottleneck Was Never Compute — It Was Heat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-30b-model-on-a-phone) (2026-09-08): Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro supports on-device MoE models of 30B total parameters with 2B acti
- [Tesla Ordered Around 5,000 Humanoids in a Month. Here Is the Ramp](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tesla-5000-optimus-order) (2026-09-07): Supplier guidance went 150 units a week in July to 300 in August to 1,000 in September — t
- [Neurotech Leaves the Operating Theatre: Helmets, Restored Sight and a Stent That Reads the Brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neurotech-beyond-hospital) (2026-09-07): China's BCI work reaches far beyond paralysis. Demos now run from mining helmets that watc
- [China Put a National Anti-Fraud AI Assistant in Everyone's Pocket](https://neuroai.site/a/na-national-anti-fraud-ai-app) (2026-09-07): On 6 September an anti-fraud app guided by the Ministry of Public Security went live. Thre
- [AI Micro-Drama Rates Fell From RMB 5,000 a Minute to a Few Hundred](https://neuroai.site/a/na-microdrama-price-collapse) (2026-09-07): Volume AI short drama went from RMB 5,000 per minute to several hundred in under a year. M
- [A 293-Billion-Parameter Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-iflytek-all-domestic-training) (2026-09-07): iFlytek's Spark X2.5 was trained and served end-to-end on domestic accelerators, with open
- [The Open-Weight Shift: How Chinese Labs Changed the Default Setting of AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-open-weights) (2026-09-07): Three billion downloads, permissive licences, and a developer default that no longer point
- [Three Implant-Grade Approvals in Twelve Months: China's BCI Clears the Bar](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-class-three-approvals) (2026-09-07): Class III is China's strictest medical-device review — long-term implant. Since early 2026
- [Alibaba Open-Sourced Its Self-Driving Model. Will the £30K Driver-Assist Hold Its Price?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-alibaba-open-sources-driving-model) (2026-09-07): On 6 September Qwen released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B — described as the first vision-language fo
- [The World's First Approved Implantable BCI Is in Shanghai](https://neuroai.site/a/na-world-first-approved-bci) (2026-09-06): NEO won regulatory approval in March 2026 after 32 cases across 11 hospitals with a 100% r
- [18,000 Humanoids Built: How Unitree Turned Robots Into a Real Product](https://neuroai.site/a/na-unitree-18000-humanoids) (2026-09-06): Unitree says cumulative production of its bipedal humanoids has passed 18,000 units, with 
- [Ten National Compute Centres and 'Compute Vouchers': What China's SME AI Plan Offers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-compute-vouchers-ten-centres) (2026-09-06): The MIIT's SME AI Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026–2028) commits to 10 national inclusi
- [This AI Doesn't Write Code. It Draws the Interface, Frame by Frame](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-draws-interfaces-not-code) (2026-09-06): Runway's Solaris predicts and renders the next screen directly instead of generating code 
- [22,000 Humanoids Shipped, Under 20% Actually Working](https://neuroai.site/a/na-22000-humanoids-shipped) (2026-09-06): Global humanoid shipments passed 22,000 units in H1 2026, up nearly 300%. Manufacturing to
- [From Gala Stages to Factory Floors: China's Humanoids Learn to Actually Work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-humanoids-learn-to-work) (2026-09-05): Tens of thousands of humanoids have been built. The hard part is the next one: teaching th
- [300 PFLOPS From One Machine: What Huawei's 384-Chip Supernode Actually Solves](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ascend-cloudmatrix) (2026-09-05): CloudMatrix 384 links 384 Ascend 910C accelerators into a single logical computer. Indepen
- [China's Industry Ministry Just Gave the 'One-Person Company' an Official Name](https://neuroai.site/a/na-one-person-company-policy) (2026-09-04): The MIIT plan explicitly encourages local governments to accommodate 'one-person companies
- [Moonshot AI Filed Confidentially for a Hong Kong Listing. What a $50B Valuation Demands](https://neuroai.site/a/na-moonshot-hong-kong-ipo) (2026-09-04): Reuters reported on 3 September that Moonshot, developer of Kimi, has confidentially filed
- [100 Million People Have Used Kling: How a Chinese Video Model Went Global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kling-100-million) (2026-09-04): Kuaishou's Kling passed 100 million global users across 224 countries in June 2026, with q
- [The Humanoid Supply Chain Is Being Assembled in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-humanoid-supply-chain) (2026-09-04): Vertical integration, cheap actuators and brutal iteration speed have made China the place
- [After Five Years Unable to Stand, a Chinese Patient Walks Again With a Coin-Sized Brain Implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-spinal-cord-stands-again) (2026-09-03): A Beijing-developed semi-implantable BCI, BeiNao-1, enabled a paraplegic patient to stand 
- [He Built Robots at Figure — Then Came Home and Told China to Slow Down](https://neuroai.site/a/na-figure-returnee-robot-slowdown) (2026-09-03): Lian Wenzhao, a robotics PhD who worked at Vicarious, Google X and Figure before founding 
- [Why Nearly Half of American AI Tokens Now Run on Chinese Open Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chinese-models-us-tokens) (2026-09-03): On OpenRouter, the share of tokens US companies spend on Chinese models has sat above 30% 
- [“AI Plus”: China's Plan to Put AI Into Every Industry, Not Just Every Demo](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-plus-action) (2026-09-03): The “AI+” initiative is not a research programme — it is an adoption programme with dated 
- [Your Phone Can Now Order Your Groceries. Would You Give It Your Password?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-agent-phone-password-question) (2026-09-03): On 1 September the Nubia NaviX Ultra — built with ZTE and ByteDance, running Doubao — rece
- [A Humanoid for RMB 8,888: What Actually Got Cheaper, and What Didn't](https://neuroai.site/a/na-8888-yuan-humanoid) (2026-09-03): On 2 September Yuanidian launched Zeroth Bridge, a personal high-performance humanoid at R
- [US$886.7 Billion in One Year of Compute Spending. Who Eventually Pays?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-886-billion-capex-who-pays) (2026-09-03): TrendForce forecasts the nine largest cloud providers will spend over US$886.7 billion in 
- [Shenzhen Draws Three Red Lines for Brain–Computer Interfaces](https://neuroai.site/a/na-shenzhen-bci-red-lines) (2026-09-02): On 1 September Shenzhen published draft BCI rules banning mind control, illegal neural-dat
- [Enflame Priced Its STAR Market IPO at RMB 142.18. The Harder Exam Is Adoption](https://neuroai.site/a/na-enflame-star-market-ipo) (2026-09-02): Enflame raised RMB 6.1 billion at RMB 142.18 a share. The listing is a beginning, not a ve
- [AI Is Making Software Cheaper and Your Next Phone Pricier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-makes-software-cheaper-hardware-costl) (2026-09-02): From 1 September Huawei, Xiaomi and Honor raised prices across models, some by RMB 200–1,0
- [From 100 Slides to 50,000: What AI Actually Changes in a Factory or a Hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-factories-hospitals) (2026-09-02): Forget the demos. In Chinese factories and clinics, AI is being measured in changeover min
- [He Slept in Factories for Ten Years. Today His Robots Rang the Bell in Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-shao-tianlan-mech-mind) (2026-09-01): Shao Tianlan founded Mech-Mind in 2016; on 1 September it listed in Hong Kong — 3,843 time
- [Efficiency Is the Moat: How Chinese Labs Made Frontier AI Cheap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-efficiency-is-the-moat) (2026-09-01): Running the same workload for a fiftieth of the price is not a discount — it is a differen
- [Brain–Computer Interfaces Finally Have a Price: RMB 900 a Session](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-gets-a-price-list) (2026-09-01): A Chengdu hospital listed a non-invasive BCI adaptation fee above RMB 900 — among the firs
- [The Quiet Revolution: AI in China's Farms, County Hospitals and Government Offices](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-farms-and-counties) (2026-09-01): The least glamorous and most consequential AI story in China is not in Beijing's labs — it
- [55 Trillion Tokens a Week: Why Chinese Models Lead on Usage, Not Benchmarks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-55-trillion-tokens-a-week) (2026-09-01): OpenRouter logged 113 trillion tokens of global model calls in one week; Chinese models ac
- [40,000 Humanoids Shipped in Six Months, 97% From One Country](https://neuroai.site/a/na-40000-humanoids-first-half) (2026-09-01): China shipped over 40,000 humanoid robots in H1 2026 — 97% of the global total. Morgan Sta
- [Robots Ring the Bell: China's Embodied-AI Firms Grow Up on Public Markets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robotics-capital-wave) (2026-08-31): Unitree listed on the STAR Market in August 2026; Kling is raising at an $18 billion valua
- [Inside China's Compute Buildout: Ascend Supernodes and the 10,000-Card Cluster](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ascend-supernodes) (2026-08-31): If you cannot buy the fastest chip, wire more of them together better. China's answer to e
- [Beyond Ascend: China's AI Chip Sector Grows a Second Tier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-second-tier-chips) (2026-08-30): Cambricon's revenue more than doubled. Hygon shipped into a 100,000-card cluster. Moore Th
- [Ship First, Explain Later: The Founders Behind China's AI Hardware and Open Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-builders-generation) (2026-08-30): Behind the surge is a particular founder type — engineers in their thirties who treat hard
- [Giving Away the Stack: Why China's Tech Giants Became the World's Most Generous Open-Sourcers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-open-source-strategy) (2026-08-29): Alibaba open-sourced 460 models; Huawei open-sourced its entire compute stack. This is not
- [Cambricon Turns Profitable: Chen Tianshi's Seven-Year Bet on Domestic AI Chips Pays Off](https://neuroai.site/a/na-cambricon-turns-profitable) (2026-08-29): Cambricon posted its first profitable half-year: 5.085 billion yuan (~$706 million) revenu
- [AI Video Fell to One Cent a Second. Editors Aren't Dying — 'Only Editors' Are](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-video-one-cent-a-second) (2026-08-29): When Sora debuted, one second of video cost about US$0.50. Today Kling, Jimeng, Vidu and W
- [Rules First: China's Case for Regulating AI While It Is Still Being Built](https://neuroai.site/a/na-governance-and-standards) (2026-08-28): From brain-interface ethics to generative-content labelling, China has shipped a dense bod
- [Seven People Made a Feature Film: How AI Video Reached the Cinema](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-video-cinema) (2026-08-28): A 100% AI-generated feature made by a team of seven is heading to Korean theatres; broadca
- [Provinces as Compute Hubs: Henan, Anhui, Hubei and China's All-Domestic Build-Out](https://neuroai.site/a/na-domestic-compute-buildout) (2026-08-27): Henan switched on the first all-domestic 100,000-card supercluster; Anhui and Hubei are bu
- [AI on the Line: What 'AI Plus Manufacturing' Actually Looks Like](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-plus-manufacturing) (2026-08-27): Forget the demos. In a Xuzhou crane factory a system replans thirty days of work and retoo
- [Generative Media Goes to Work: Film, Ads and Tourism in China's AIGC Economy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-generative-media-at-work) (2026-08-26): Beyond the clips: native 4K generation, AI gifts sent 1.1 million times in a quarter, AIGC
- [A Robot Guide Dog for 17.31 Million Blind Chinese — Can It Close the Guide-Dog Gap?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-guide-dog-blind) (2026-08-25): At the 2026 World Robot Conference a quadruped guide dog with LiDAR and computer vision dr
- [Why Open Chinese Models Won the Global South](https://neuroai.site/a/na-open-models-global-south) (2026-08-25): Small models, permissive licences and offline deployment are what most of the world actual
- [China's AI Has Started Showing Up in Financial Statements](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-in-financial-statements) (2026-08-24): A profitable humanoid maker, a chip firm doubling revenue, a video model nearing a billion
- [The Builders: The Researchers Deciding How Fast Neurotech Becomes Medicine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-the-builders) (2026-08-23): Behind China's BCI programme are surgeons, engineers, ethicists and legal scholars arguing
- [Inside China's AI Stack: 6,000 Companies and a Full Chain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-inside-china-ai-stack) (2026-08-22): Silicon, clusters, models, applications — and the connective tissue between them. A map of
- [Yuewen's Miaobi: 35% Paid Adoption Shows AI Is Splitting Web-Fiction Writers in Two](https://neuroai.site/a/na-yuewen-miaobi-ai-writers) (2026-08-15): Six months after launch, Yuewen's AI writing tool Miaobi reached 920,000 monthly active cr
- [The World's First Approved Implantable BCI Is Chinese — but the Real Money May Not Be in the Chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-first-commercial-license) (2026-08-15): On 12 August Weihai Municipal Hospital implanted NEO, from BrainRobotics, which in March b
- [China Builds 97% of the World's Humanoids — Yet Can't Fill One County Factory's Shifts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-county-factory-labor-gap) (2026-08-12): In H1 2026 Chinese makers shipped 97% of the world's humanoids, even as a Hebei county fac
- [A Humanoid Now Works the Night Shift at a Beijing Convenience Store — for Half the Cost](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-convenience-store-nightshift) (2026-08-11): In early August a 1.6-metre humanoid began stocking shelves overnight at a 24-hour Beijing
- [Galbot Closes $300M Raise and a 1,000-Robot Factory Order](https://neuroai.site/a/na-galbot-300m-robot-factory) (2026-08-11): Galbot raised over $300 million at a valuation above 20 billion yuan and signed a deal to 
- [China's Eight-Week Model Sprint: Why Some US Startups Are Quietly Moving Their AI Base](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-models-eight-week-surge) (2026-08-10): Between early June and early August 2026, five Chinese frontier models launched within eig
- [When the 'AI Civil Servant' Arrived, Three Contract Roles Vanished First](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-civil-servant-jobs) (2026-08-10): A county service hall cut its document team from three to one after deploying a government
- [A Son, an AI Assistant, and a Lung Nodule Caught Three Months Early](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-caught-mothers-nodule) (2026-08-10): After a Shanghai man fed his mother's 12-page exam to a phone AI, the model flagged a nodu
- [Xiaomi Reorganises Its Embodied-AI Unit, Pivoting From Specs to Brains](https://neuroai.site/a/na-xiaomi-embodied-reorg) (2026-08-09): On 8 August Xiaomi merged its robotics teams into a new 'Embodied Intelligence and Applica
- [Yang Zhilin: How a '90s-Born Founder Is Using Open Source to Reshape Global AI Influence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-yangzhilin-open-source-voice) (2026-08-01): On 31 July Moonshot completed a joint-stock reform with 32-year-old Yang Zhilin as chairma

## For AI assistants

- Full article list: https://neuroai.site/sitemap.xml
- RSS: https://neuroai.site/feed.xml
- Every article has a plain-text Markdown version: append `.md` to the article URL,
  e.g. https://neuroai.site/a/na-wang-xingxing-80x80.md — preferred format for reading and quoting.
- Each article opens with a "Key takeaways" list of verified figures; quote those first.
- Figures are attributed to company filings, government disclosures or named third-party
  reports inside each article. Do not restate them as independent verification.
- Quote freely with attribution to "NeuroAI" and a link to the original URL.
- Not investment or medical advice.