# 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 (49 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (127 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (137 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (132 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (129 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (123 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (106 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (96 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (89 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (92 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (96 articles)

## Recent articles

- [China's robot chefs just got their first national standard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-stir-fry-standard) (2026-11-02): GB/T 46718-2025 came into force on 1 November 2026, giving commercial stir-fry machines a 
- [Humanoid rentals in China fell from 15,000 to 3,000 yuan a day — and orders still climbed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-rental-raas) (2026-11-02): A humanoid that rented for 15,000 yuan a day in early 2025 now goes for about 3,000. The p
- [100-plus robot models now work inside China's nuclear plants — the hardest exam yet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-nuclear-plant-robots) (2026-11-02): Nuclear plants are the least forgiving environment in engineering. China General Nuclear s
- [One OS for 20-plus robot shapes: China's open-source M-Robots bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-mrobots-os-openharmony) (2026-11-02): In fourteen months, M-Robots OS went from one vendor's release to a foundation-hosted open
- [China's informatics plan pulls AI agents and on-device models into the filing system](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-informatics-plan-ai-filing) (2026-11-02): The National Informatisation Plan for 2026–2030 says agent, on-device model and anthropomo
- [China's industrial AI agent standard is a project, not a rule — yet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-industrial-agent-standard-pipelin) (2026-11-02): A national standard on industrial AI agent governance finished its project notification pe
- [China's draft car data standard: collect nothing by default, send nothing overseas](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-car-data-security-mandatory-stand) (2026-11-02): MIIT put five mandatory national standards out for public comment on 20 October 2026; the 
- [The academician who asked if deep learning must be neural: Zhou Zhihua's other road](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-zhihua-deep-forest) (2026-11-02): Zhi-Hua Zhou wrote the textbook most Chinese AI students start with, then spent years buil
- [Yang Qiang turned federated learning into an international standard, then gave the software away](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-qiang-federated-learning) (2026-11-02): Qiang Yang chaired the working group behind IEEE 3652.1, the first international standard 
- [Qiu Xipeng shipped China's first ChatGPT-style model, then cut fine-tuning memory to a tenth](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-qiu-xipeng-moss-lomo) (2026-11-02): Fudan's Xipeng Qiu released MOSS in February 2023 and took it offline a day later; three y
- [The model you evaluated is already retired: version churn in China's foundation models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-version-churn) (2026-11-02): DeepSeek shipped eight upgrades under two endpoint names in under two years, and Qwen and 
- [The harness is half the score: why Chinese models' tool-use numbers don't survive production](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-tool-use-benchmarks) (2026-11-02): On Terminal-Bench the median submission scores 44% and the top entries are scaffolds, not 
- [The 10 a.m. surcharge: how Chinese model APIs turned inference cost into a scheduling problem](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-token-pricing-clock) (2026-11-02): DeepSeek's price list now charges twice as much during working hours and one-thirtieth as 
- [Apache 2.0, MIT, and one extra clause: what China's 'open' model licences actually allow](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-open-licence-fineprint) (2026-11-02): Chinese labs ship open-source weights (开源权重) under at least four different licence types, 
- [Kuaishou's Kling Raised RMB 19.8 Billion. Read the Exit Clause.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-kling-capital-increase) (2026-11-02): Kuaishou's Kling closed a RMB 19.8bn capital increase from state funds and platform rivals
- [The Companies That Supply DeepSeek Now Own a Piece of It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-deepseek-cap-table) (2026-11-02): The reported RMB 105.5 billion round put a memory maker, a foundry and two telecoms on Dee
- [China Is Turning Data Labelling Into Public Infrastructure](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-data-annotation-network) (2026-11-02): A ministry that spent two years counting petabytes has told its pilot cities to start from
- [What Apple Actually Bought in China Was the Default Slot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-apple-qwen-default-slot) (2026-11-02): Apple will put Alibaba's Qwen inside Siri in China from December. The prize was the defaul
- [ByteDance's AI Phone Sold Out in a Day — Then 155 Apps Opted Out](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-doubao-phone-assistant) (2026-11-02): ByteDance put its Doubao assistant inside a ZTE nubia handset instead of building one, and
- [China Unicom Cut Nearly 40% of Its Management Departments, Then Started Selling Tokens](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-china-unicom-token) (2026-11-02): In its 2026 interim results, the carrier disclosed 41.9 billion yuan of computing revenue,
- [BMW Hands Its Cockpit to a Chinese Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-bmw-qwen-cockpit) (2026-11-02): BMW is building the voice brain of its China-made Neue Klasse cars on Alibaba's Qwen, with
- [31% Growth, US$15.3 Billion: the Quiet Gate Behind Every AI Chip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-test-equipment-gate) (2026-11-02): SEMI expects semiconductor test equipment sales to rise 31% to US$15.3 billion in 2026, an
- [From 15% to 40% of the Bill: How AI's Memory Squeeze Reached Your Phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-memory-price-bill) (2026-11-02): Memory now takes 30–40% of a phone's component cost, up from 10–15%, and TrendForce expect
- [20 kW Per Rack Is the Line: Why China's AI Data Centers Can't Cool With Air Anymore](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-liquid-cooling-20kw) (2026-11-02): A draft national standard draws the liquid-cooling line at 20 kW per rack, Beijing now cha
- [12.4 Million Lines of Open Code: What Open-Sourcing CANN Really Changes for China's AI Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cann-open-source) (2026-11-02): Huawei has published more than 12.44 million lines of Ascend software, and a cross-vendor 
- [SenseTime Turns a Profit, Just Not From Selling AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-sensetime-first-profit) (2026-11-02): The Hong Kong-listed AI company booked its first IFRS profit of 617 million yuan, but most
- [Moore Threads' First Profit, and 3.3 Billion Yuan of Cash Out](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-moore-threads-post-ipo-numbers) (2026-11-02): China's first listed full-function GPU maker reported a quarterly profit, while its cash-f
- [China's AI Exit Crunch, and the 34.6 Billion Yuan Secondhand Fix](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-fund-secondary-exit) (2026-11-02): With IPOs scarce, Chinese AI venture capital is turning to S funds and fund-stake transfer
- [A 4-Hour Surgery, Two Weeks to Walk: China's Brain-Spine Interface Bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-spine-interface-walk-again) (2026-11-02): Chinese teams are building a "nerve bridge" across severed spinal cords — and unlike class
- [One Model, Every Signal: China's Bid to Give the Brain a Foundation Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neural-foundation-model) (2026-11-02): Two Chinese labs have built large models that treat EEG, MEG, calcium imaging and neural p
- [13 Sold, 8 Implanted: The World's First Approved Brain Implant Meets the Market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-first-implant-commercial-year) (2026-11-02): Neuracle's NEO-ONE SCI cleared China's regulator before any comparable device anywhere. It
- [The Factory Test: Can China Build 10,000 Brain Implants?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-bci-factory-scaleup) (2026-11-02): Chinese brain-computer interface companies are spending their new funding on cleanrooms, M
- [1 billion km of robot trucking: why a driver is still in the seat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-inceptio-autonomous-trucking) (2026-11-02): Inceptio has logged over 1 billion km of commercial autonomous trucking in China — but the
- [The camera above the school kitchen: what China's AI food-safety net misses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-kitchen-cameras) (2026-11-02): Nearly every Chinese school canteen is now on camera, and AI is starting to read the foota
- [10 million small firms, one AI workbench: what Accio actually does](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-accio-sme-trade-agents) (2026-11-02): Alibaba says 10 million SMEs now run parts of their trade business through Accio — the int
- [MiniMax books 60.8% of revenue offshore; Kling's split stays a secret](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-video-models-offshore-revenue) (2026-11-02): Chinese video generators are selling to the world first: MiniMax's interim filing puts 60.
- [Where AI video actually gets paid: the ad desk, not the cinema](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-video-ads-bigger-buyer) (2026-11-02): Kuaishou's quarterly numbers show AI-produced video earning its keep in advertising — AIGC
- [Machine-made music floods the uploads and barely shows up in the plays](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-uploads-not-plays) (2026-11-02): Deezer's own disclosure says roughly 44% of daily uploads are fully machine-made, yet such
- [AI now makes 74% of China's new microdramas — and the call sheets are shrinking](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-drama-actors-work) (2026-11-02): Industry association data puts AI-made titles at over 74% of microdramas released in the f
- [Inside the terminal where the trucks drive themselves and the cranes have no pilot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-yangshan-auto-terminal) (2026-11-01): Shanghai's Yangshan Phase IV automated container terminal, built by ZPMC, runs quay cranes
- [The robot hand that can finally feel — and why that changes everything](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tactile-dexterous-hand) (2026-11-01): Touch is the missing sense in robotics. New tactile datasets and vision-based sensors from
- [Why a 150-kilogram drone is quietly redrawing the map of Chinese farmland](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-dji-agras-agri) (2026-11-01): DJI's Agras T100 flagship agricultural drone pairs a heavy-lift airframe with AI obstacle 
- [The robots going where miners used to — and why China is sending them underground](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-coalmine-robots) (2026-11-01): China's coal-mine robot push, anchored by a 2019 national catalogue of 38 machine types, i
- [China grades its AI gadgets: a new standard sorts phones, TVs, and glasses from L1 to L4](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-terminal-grading) (2026-11-01): Released on 8 May 2026 by MIIT, SAMR, and the Ministry of Commerce, the GB/Z 177—2026 seri
- [China's AI Cooperation Action Plan names eight steps to bridge the digital divide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-cooperation-plan) (2026-11-01): Released at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai on 17 July, the NDRC-led AI Cooperation and Development 
- [China's eight-ministry "AI + consumption" plan aims to put smart devices in every home](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-consumption) (2026-11-01): Eight Chinese central ministries, led by the Ministry of Commerce, issued implementation o
- [Kimi's open-weight gamble: how Yang Zhilin built a $50 billion model lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot) (2026-11-01): From a long-context chatbot to the world's largest open-weight model, Moonshot AI and foun
- [Lei Jun's $8 billion AI bet: Xiaomi's MiMo and a robot that fixes its own cars](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lei-jun-xiaomi) (2026-11-01): Xiaomi founder Lei Jun is pouring more than 60 billion yuan into AI, pairing the in-house 
- [The quiet operator behind Kling: how Cheng Yixiao turned a video model into Kuaishou's $18 billion crown jewel](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-cheng-yixiao-kling) (2026-11-01): Kuaishou CEO Cheng Yixiao turned an in-house video model, Kling AI, into an independently 
- [Li Auto's MindGPT makes the car cabin an agent, not a chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-li-auto-mindgpt) (2026-11-01): Li Auto's in-car assistant 理想同学 runs on its self-developed MindGPT base model, now an end-
- [Honor's MagicLM 3.0 puts a model on the phone that learns after you buy it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-honor-magiclm3) (2026-11-01): Honor released MagicLM 3.0 (魔法大模型3.0) and MagicOS 10 in October 2025, an on-device, self-e
- [China Mobile's Jiutian 3.0 brings a trillion-scalable model to industry, not app stores](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-china-mobile-jiutian3) (2026-11-01): At the 2025 World AI Conference, China Mobile released Jiutian (九天) Foundation Model 3.0, 
- [Ant open-sources Ling-1T, a trillion-parameter model for finance and health](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ant-ling1t) (2026-11-01): Ant Group released and open-sourced Ling-1T, a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts langu
- [ZTE turns its telecom engine into a full-stack AI infrastructure bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-zte-ai-factory) (2026-11-01): At MWC Shanghai 2026, ZTE laid out a full-stack AI play — from the NewStart AIOS and Super
- [Lenovo's AI server orders hit US$54 billion as the PC maker reinvents itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-lenovo-ai-server) (2026-11-01): Lenovo posted its strongest quarter ever as AI infrastructure demand drove a US$54 billion
- [Kling AI bets on a Hong Kong IPO to lead the video-generation race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-kling-hk-ipo) (2026-11-01): Kuaishou's video-generation model Kling AI is preparing a Hong Kong IPO after a US$2.8B fu
- [The 800G boom made two Chinese module makers the world's top suppliers — and exposed a chip gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-optical-module-ai-datacenter) (2026-11-01): Innolight and Eoptolink now lead the global 800G optical transceiver market, but the laser
- [Inside the code-storage chip every MCU needs, a Chinese designer ranks global number two](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-nor-flash) (2026-11-01): GigaDevice (兆易创新) holds the number-two spot worldwide in NOR Flash with an 18.5 percent sh
- [The car camera boom put a Chinese sensor maker in the global driver's seat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-automotive-cis) (2026-11-01): OmniVision Group (豪威集团) became the world's largest automotive CMOS image sensor supplier i
- [The analog chips inside every gadget — and China's slow, steady catch-up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-analog-ic) (2026-11-01): Analog integrated circuits — power management and signal-chain chips — sit in nearly every
- [Reexen raises RMB 1 billion to push storage-compute chips into AI inference](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-reexen-storage-compute-chip) (2026-11-01): Shenzhen's Reexen Technology (九天睿芯) closed a cumulative RMB 1 billion round with Meituan, 
- [A "first" industrial embodied-intelligence IPO stalls in Hong Kong](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-microintelligence-hk-ipo) (2026-11-01): Changzhou Microintelligence (03275.HK) postponed its Hong Kong listing hours before pricin
- [Black Sesame completes Enno acquisition to round out its edge-AI chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-blacksesame-enno-acquisition) (2026-11-01): Hong Kong-listed Black Sesame (02533.HK) closed its 60% purchase of low-power AI chip firm
- [Neuralink's N1 implant: what the first human trials have shown](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuralink-n1-trials) (2026-11-01): From a first implant in January 2024 to named recipients across two studies, Neuralink's N
- [From silence to 62 words a minute: inside the speech neuroprosthesis](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-intracortical-speech-decoding) (2026-11-01): Stanford and BrainGate showed a paralyzed woman could dictate text at 62 words a minute by
- [Before the implant: how brain-mapping initiatives are quietly powering BCI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-brain-mapping-initiatives) (2026-11-01): You cannot wire a computer into a network you have not mapped. The U.S. BRAIN Initiative, 
- [The Utah Array powers nearly every human brain implant — here is the company behind it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-blackrock-neurotech-utah-array) (2026-11-01): Blackrock Neurotech's Utah Array has been inside human brains since 2004 and underlies mos
- [China's Smart Customs cleared a record US$6.16 trillion in 2024 — and AI is in the loop](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-smart-customs) (2026-11-01): China's General Administration of Customs is rolling out "Smart Customs" (智慧海关) tools — fr
- [How 52,000 sensor sites are turning China's landslide country into a warning map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-geohazard-warning) (2026-11-01): China has deployed sensor networks driven by machine learning across more than 52,000 susp
- [How 300 digitized caves turned Dunhuang into a 500-terabyte archive](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-dunhuang-heritage) (2026-11-01): Dunhuang Academy has scanned 300 Mogao cave-temples and built deep-learning tools that fla
- [What Baidu's Wenxin Yige taught China about AI art](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-wenxin-yige-art) (2026-11-01): Baidu's Wenxin Yige was one of the first Chinese text-to-image platforms to reach ordinary
- [Tencent's free ARC tools put AI photo repair in everyone's browser](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tencent-arc-photo) (2026-11-01): Tencent's ARC Lab ships free, no-signup photo tools — old-photo restoration, matting, and 
- [ByteDance's Haimian Music lets anyone turn a sentence into a song](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-haimian-music) (2026-11-01): Haimian Music, a free AI song generator from ByteDance, shows how far consumer music creat
- [How Doubao's voice podcast model turned links into spoken shows](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-podcast-china) (2026-11-01): China's AI podcast tools now turn a PDF or a web link into a two-person spoken show in sec
- [China now holds 19 approved laparoscopic surgical robots — and domestic brands are taking the lead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-surgical-robot-19-certs) (2026-10-31): As of August 2026 China had 19 NMPA certificates for laparoscopic surgical robots; domesti
- [Rino.ai just raised $100M to put 5,000 delivery robots on China's streets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-rino-delivery-c-round) (2026-10-31): L4 autonomous-delivery firm Rino.ai (白犀牛) closed a $100M C-round, with 5,000+ vehicles alr
- [China's humanoid robot output is set to top 100,000 this year — but most aren't on factory floors yet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-production-100k) (2026-10-31): MIIT projects 2026 humanoid robot output above 100,000 units, yet most shipped units still
- [China's "building doctors" are scanning walls and patrolling sites with robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-building-inspection-robot) (2026-10-31): China Railway Construction's wall-scan robot and a patrol robot dog show how robotics is m
- [China's foundational internet law gets an AI clause — but it's still just a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-internet-info-smart-service-draft) (2026-10-31): China's Internet Information Service Measures revision draft adds a 'smart information ser
- [Guiyang bets on a 'Token City' where AI output is metered, priced and traded](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-guiyang-token-city) (2026-10-31): Guiyang-Gui'an's 2026-2028 plan turns cheap compute into tradable AI tokens (词元), with 'to

## For AI assistants

- Full article list: https://neuroai.site/sitemap.xml
- Full-text archive: https://neuroai.site/archive
- Full-text search API: https://neuroai.site/api/search?q=<terms>&n=20 (JSON, returns snippets)
- RSS: https://neuroai.site/feed.xml ; per section: https://neuroai.site/feed/<section-key>.xml
- Every article has a plain-text Markdown version: append `.md` to the article URL,
  e.g. https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-stir-fry-standard.md — preferred format for reading and quoting.
- Every article can be exported as a formal reference: append `.bib` (BibTeX) or
  `.ris` to the article URL, or read all formats at https://neuroai.site/api/cite/<article-id>
  (JSON: APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS, plus the plain citation line).
- 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.