# 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 (43 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (111 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (121 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (116 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (113 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (107 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (94 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (84 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (77 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (80 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (84 articles)

## Recent articles

- [China Subsidised Smart Glasses Before the Use Case Arrived](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-smart-glasses-subsidy) (2026-10-30): Smart glasses joined China's 15% digital-purchase subsidy in January 2026. Shipments fell 
- [China's AI Launch Gate Is a Filing Number, Not an Approval](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-filing-register) (2026-10-30): Two registers, 1,112 filed services and 731 registered apps: how China's filing system, ra
- [A Hangzhou exoskeleton helped a wheelchair user walk again — at 1.8 kg](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-transitx-exoskeleton) (2026-10-29): Hangzhou TransitX's lightweight hip-assist exoskeleton drew global attention after an Arge
- [China's first 10,000-unit humanoid line rolls one robot off every 30 minutes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-leju-dongfang-humanoid-line) (2026-10-29): A Foshan line jointly built by Leju Robotics and Dongfang Precision can assemble a humanoi
- [A Tianjin quadruped works where cameras can't see, in 20+ Chinese cities](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galileo-quadruped-inspection) (2026-10-29): Galileo (Tianjin) Technology's fully self-developed quadruped robots use force-feedback ra
- [Cainiao's climbing robots fill a Guangzhou warehouse with 135 machines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-cainiao-climbing-warehouse) (2026-10-29): Cainiao delivered Guangzhou's first self-developed climbing-robot warehouse in September 2
- [A Border Province Just Staked RMB 45 Billion on Becoming China's AI Gateway to Southeast Asia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-guangxi-ai-asean-hub) (2026-10-29): Guangxi's 2026 government work report commits RMB 45 billion (≈ US$6.3bn) over three years
- [China's AI Risk-Management Standard Becomes Binding Next Month](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-risk-management-standard) (2026-10-29): Issued under MIIT Announcement 2026 No. 18, the YD/T 7173-2026 standard for AI system risk
- [China's Career List Gains 11 New Jobs, Including Robot Technicians and Agent Builders](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-new-occupations) (2026-10-29): On 9 September 2026, China's human-resources ministry formally added 11 new occupations an
- [After Three Years in the Red, Zhou Hongyi Bets 360 on AI Agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-hongyi-360-ai) (2026-10-29): 360 founder Zhou Hongyi pivoted his security company to "360Brain" and an "All in Agent" s
- [Tianjin's Xu Minpeng Builds a Brain–Computer Link That Learns Back](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-xu-minpeng-tianjin-bci) (2026-10-29): Tianjin University researcher Xu Minpeng co-led a non-invasive, two-way adaptive BCI publi
- [From a Tsinghua NLP Lab to Samsung's Galaxy AI: Liu Zhiyuan's Edge-Model Bet](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-liu-zhiyuan-modelbest-minicpm) (2026-10-29): Tsinghua professor Liu Zhiyuan co-founded ModelBest to build small on-device models; its M
- [Qwen Reaches One Million Tokens and Keeps Its Weights Open](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-million-token-context) (2026-10-29): Alibaba's Qwen team extended its open-weight models to a one-million-token context in Janu
- [iFlytek's Spark Teaches Math and Understands 37 Languages of Speech](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-voice-education) (2026-10-29): How iFlytek built Spark (星火) around China's two hardest product problems—classroom educati
- [DeepSeek Trained a Frontier Model for Less Than US$6 Million](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-efficiency) (2026-10-29): How DeepSeek's open-weight V3 and R1 rewrote the cost math of frontier large models—and wh
- [Baidu's ERNIE 4.5 Lands as Open Weights in Ten Sizes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-ernie45-open-weights) (2026-10-29): Baidu open-sourced the ERNIE 4.5 family on 30 June 2025 across ten checkpoints under Apach
- [NIO Put a 5nm Chip in 150,000 Cars — and May Sell It to Rivals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-nio-shenji-chip) (2026-10-29): NIO's self-developed Shenji NX9031 smart-driving chip has shipped in more than 150,000 veh
- [Moore Threads Built a 10,000-Card GPU Cluster — and Listed to Pay for It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-moore-threads-gpu) (2026-10-29): Moore Threads, China's first listed full-function GPU maker, has mass-produced five chip g
- [Li Auto's Driver Model Fielded 12 Million Commands in a Year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-liauto-mindvla) (2026-10-29): Li Auto's unified Vision-Language-Action driver model reached 80% monthly use and 12.25 mi
- [Xiaomi Shipped 1 Million XRING O1 Chips. The Harder Race Is the One After That](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-xiaomi-xring-soc) (2026-10-29): Xiaomi's in-house 3nm XRING O1 passed 1 million shipments, but the real test for China's d
- [US Export Controls Opened a FPGA Gap in China. Local Makers Filled the Low End, Not the Top](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-fpga-localization) (2026-10-29): US controls stretched lead times for advanced FPGAs in China to about 52 weeks, pushing lo
- [China's SoCs Depend on Arm China — the Licensing Gate Western Export Rules Keep Tightening](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-armchina-ip-house) (2026-10-29): Arm derived roughly 18% of its fiscal 2026 revenue from China through Arm China, a company
- [A Single AI Server Rack Now Pulls 130 kW — and the Power Chips Behind It Are Mostly Imported](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ai-server-power-chips) (2026-10-29): AI racks like Nvidia's GB200 draw 125–135 kW each, straining legacy power delivery and exp
- [Neolix Closes Nearly $400M Series E as State AI Fund Backs Driverless Delivery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-neolix-series-e) (2026-10-29): Beijing's Neolix (新石器) closed a nearly US$400M Series E co-led by Boyu Capital and a state
- [Micro-Intelligence Halts Hong Kong IPO Days Before Debut, Citing Market Conditions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-micro-intelligence-ipo) (2026-10-29): Micro-Intelligence (微亿智造) opened Hong Kong IPO books on 20 October to raise up to HK$800M,
- [The First Approved Brain–Computer Implant Is Now Helping Paralyzed Patients in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-neo-bci-clinic) (2026-10-29): Neuracle's NEO, the world's first regulator-cleared implantable brain–computer interface (
- [A Beijing Farm-Robot Maker Will Ship More Than 10,000 Units to Malaysia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-farm-robots-asean) (2026-10-29): Maimai Technology (麦麦科技) signed a deal to deploy more than 10,000 AI-powered agricultural 
- [More Than 90% of China's New Micro-Dramas Are Now Made by AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-microdrama-pipeline) (2026-10-29): China's micro-drama (短剧) industry now generates the vast majority of new titles with AI, c
- [Xinhua Sends an AI-Made Short Video Past 50 Million Views at the Two Sessions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-xinhua-ai-news-video) (2026-10-29): Xinhua (新华社) produced "2026, Rivers and Mountains Toward the Future" with AI across the en
- [Xiaohongshu Open-Sources FireRed Models, Pushing AI Image and Video Editing to Its Creators](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-xiaohongshu-firered) (2026-10-29): Xiaohongshu (小红书) open-sourced three generative AI models in April 2026, turning its recom
- [Bilibili Open-Sources Index-Translate, a 150-Language Model Family for Video Dubbing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-bilibili-index-translate) (2026-10-29): Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) released Index-Translate under Apache-2.0 on 30 September 2026, a Qwen3.5-
- [China's AI Comic-Dramas Hit a 40 Billion Yuan Market as Platforms Flood the Feed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-comic-drama-boom) (2026-10-29): AI comic-drama (AI漫剧) is on track to exceed 40 billion yuan in 2026, but breakout hits are
- [A Chinese robot now resets fractured bones without opening the patient](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-rossum-orthopedic-surgery) (2026-10-28): Beijing Rossum's intelligent orthopedic robot cleared China's NMPA for spine and long-bone
- [Hotels are quietly putting humanoid and specialized robots on the same shift](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-keenon-hotel-humanoid) (2026-10-28): KEENON's 'general + specialized' service-robot playbook is moving from trade-show demos in
- [One Chinese factory just built its 200,000th mobile robot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hikrobot-200k-amr) (2026-10-28): Hikrobot, Hikvision's mobile-robot arm, crossed 200,000 units off the line as China's AMR 
- [China's first approved rehab exoskeleton is now cheap enough for home use](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ailegs-rehab-exoskeleton) (2026-10-28): Da'ai Robot's lower-limb rehab exoskeleton has fallen from roughly ¥1M to consumer pricing
- [Zhejiang backs its AI ambitions with a 27-point plan and a ¥1-trillion industry target](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-zhejiang-ai-measures) (2026-10-28): Zhejiang Province's effective support measures aim for over ¥1 trillion in core AI revenue
- [China publishes industrial-internet and AI fusion action plan targeting 50,000 factory network upgrades by 2028](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-industrial-internet-ai-fusion) (2026-10-28): MIIT's December 2025 action plan pushes AI deeper into factory floors, setting hard 2028 t
- [China's data-rights registry opens for public comment — but it is still only a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-data-property-rights-draft) (2026-10-28): The National Data Administration's draft Data Property Rights Registration Guidelines clos
- [Zhou Bowen's Shanghai lab wants AI to do science, not just answer questions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhou-bowen-shanghai-ai-lab) (2026-10-28): Shanghai AI Laboratory director Zhou Bowen released the 'Shusheng·Duanyan' platform at WAI
- [Inside AMEC: how Yin Zhiyao turned one etching tool into a 54-product platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yin-zhiyao-amec) (2026-10-28): Founder Yin Zhiyao has grown AMEC from a single plasma etcher into a broad semiconductor-e
- [Huang Tiejun's BAAI put a Chinese large model on the cover of Nature — by refusing to copy](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-huang-tiejun-baai) (2026-10-28): Under founding director Huang Tiejun, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence persi
- [Shanghai AI Lab's 8B model quietly rewrote the math on training cost](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-internlm3-open-llm) (2026-10-28): InternLM3-8B-Instruct from Shanghai AI Laboratory was trained on 4 trillion tokens and the
- [OpenAI's open weights just gave Chinese developers another local option](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-gpt-oss-open-weights) (2026-10-28): OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, released under Apache 2.0 in August 2025, are open-
- [Baidu open-sources an 8B image model that runs on a consumer GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ernie-image-open-dit) (2026-10-28): Baidu's ERNIE-Image is an open-weight, single-stream DiT text-to-image model with 8B param
- [A Chinese speech model just out-ranked Whisper on Hugging Face](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-confucius4-r2t2-speech) (2026-10-28): NetEase Youdao's open-source Confucius4-R2T2 real-time speech recognition model topped Hug
- [China's Banks Are Underwriting AI Firms on Their Token Bills](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-token-bill-credit) (2026-10-28): Chinese banks have begun pricing credit off token consumption and compute contracts, becau
- [China Added a Job-Loss Check to AI Project Approvals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-employment-check) (2026-10-28): A State Council General Office opinion puts a labour test inside AI project review and tel
- [Trip.com's AI travel assistant is quietly booking a bigger slice of every trip](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tripcom-tripgenie-ai) (2026-10-28): Trip.com's TripGenie assistant drove a roughly 400% year-on-year jump in AI-driven orders 
- [Meitu turned photo filters into an AI subscription business — and the numbers are real](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meitu-ai-arpu) (2026-10-28): Meitu's H1 2026 results show AI-driven subscription and compute-point revenue turning a co
- [BYD gave away 'God's Eye' driver assistance for free — and reset China's smart-car race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-byd-gods-eye) (2026-10-28): How BYD's decision to make its 'God's Eye' advanced driver-assistance system standard acro
- [TSMC's 2nm N2 node hits full ramp as A16 backside power feeds the next AI wave](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-tsmc-n2-a16) (2026-10-28): TSMC's N2 process is now in high-volume production and its A16 backside-power node is set 
- [All three HBM4 suppliers are now in production for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sk-hynix-hbm4) (2026-10-28): NVIDIA confirmed Samsung, SK hynix and Micron are all qualified and shipping HBM4 for Vera
- [MediaTek joins NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion to build custom AI accelerators for the cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-mediatek-nvidia-asic) (2026-10-28): MediaTek will use NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion to help hyperscalers design custom XPUs, backed b
- [GigaDevice's Hong Kong listing marks a Chinese memory and MCU maker's push into edge AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-gigadevice-edge-ai-memory) (2026-10-28): GigaDevice (兆易创新) completed a Hong Kong IPO in January 2026 and is pitching Flash, MCU and
- [Hong Kong's AI listing wave holds up as 118 floats raise HK$388 billion in nine months](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-hk-ai-ipo-wave) (2026-10-28): A Citi banker told Reuters Chinese AI supply-chain IPOs should stay resilient; Hong Kong h
- [DeepSeek closes in on a US$15 billion round as CATL and Tencent lead a 100 billion yuan raise](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-deepseek-15b-round) (2026-10-28): The Hangzhou lab is wrapping up a roughly 100 billion yuan (≈US$15B) funding round at a 50
- [Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI lines up pre-IPO round ahead of a 2027 Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-01ai-hk-preipo) (2026-10-28): The Beijing lab founded by Kai-Fu Lee is raising a pre-IPO round and unwinding its offshor
- [A Shenzhen film thinner than paper is mapping the brain mid-surgery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-wizmind-flexible-electrode) (2026-10-28): WizMind (微灵医疗) builds ultra-thin flexible electrodes that help Chinese neurosurgeons locat
- [Neuralink's Telepathy implant turns thought into cursor — but the hard test is daily life](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuralink-telepathy) (2026-10-28): Since early 2024 Neuralink has implanted its N1 'Link' in a small group of paralyzed volun
- [A one-atom-thick film just met a human brain in surgery](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-inbrain-graphene-bci) (2026-10-28): Spain's INBRAIN Neuroelectronics implanted the first graphene-based brain-computer interfa
- [A paralyzed woman's attempt to speak became text at 62 words per minute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-braingate-speech-bci) (2026-10-28): Two Nature papers in 2023 showed brain-computer interfaces decoding attempted speech into 
- [How TAL's MathGPT turned a learning device into an AI tutor](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tal-mathgpt-tutor) (2026-10-28): TAL Education's MathGPT (九章大模型), the first state-filed education large model (大模型), now po
- [China Merchants Bank turns its app into an AI wealth desk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-cmb-ai-wealth-assistant) (2026-10-28): CMB's AI Xiao Zhao assistant and the open-sourced Yi Zhao (一招) financial large model (大模型)
- [Inside AnZhenEr, Zhejiang's province-wide AI health companion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ant-anzhener-ai-health-assistant) (2026-10-28): A medical large model (医疗大模型) deployed across more than 2,000 Zhejiang clinics turns triag
- [A film festival in Ningbo just pulled AI creators from 30 countries — and signaled a new creative class](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ningbo-ai-film-festival) (2026-10-28): The 2026 Ningbo Youth AI Film Festival closed on October 25 with entries from 30 countries
- [LiblibAI's $130M round signals investors are betting on AI creator communities, not just models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-liblibai-creator-economy) (2026-10-28): China's largest AI image-and-video creation community closed a record $130M Series B in Oc
- [Huawei's MetaStudio is turning content production into cloud infrastructure — not just digital humans](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-huawei-metastudio-content-cloud) (2026-10-28): Huawei Cloud's MetaStudio digital-content production line packages AIGC video, multilingua
- [Beijing court's AI-art copyright ruling became a global reference point — here is what it actually decided](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-china-ai-copyright-ruling) (2026-10-28): A Beijing Internet Court decision that an image created with AI, reflecting human intellec
- [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

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