# 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 (53 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (147 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (157 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (152 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (149 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (147 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (117 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (105 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (107 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (108 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (113 articles)

## Recent articles

- [A Phone-Chip Maker Starts Reporting Data-Center Figures: Amon](https://neuroai.site/a/na-amon-datacenter-32-1105b) (2026-11-05): Most people know Qualcomm because of the Snapdragon chip in their phone. Checking a spec s
- [From Can It Be Built to Can It Be Used: Qiao Tianjie and the Scorecard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-qiao-tianjie-31-1105b) (2026-11-05): Ask someone in to fix a lamp at home and it lighting up on the spot is not the same as it 
- [One Idea, Six Names: Jeff Dean and Self-Improvement](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jeff-rsi-30-1105b) (2026-11-05): Move the storage around at home, tidy it again a few years later, and the word for it may 
- [Asking a Model to Count the Chairs: Fei-Fei Li and Spatial Intelligence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-feifei-space-29-1105b) (2026-11-05): Toss a set of keys to a friend and the hand comes up to catch them. Nobody measures the di
- [Putting a Brake on AI Agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-agent-brake-28-1105b) (2026-11-05): The faster a car goes, the better its brakes need to be. Carried over to agents that can w
- [A Racket Shows Up at the Expo Booth](https://neuroai.site/a/na-expo-racket-27-1105b) (2026-11-05): Want a game of badminton and the hardest part is not buying a racket — it is finding someo
- [A Small City Counts Its Computing Power First](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jiaxing-compute-26-1105b) (2026-11-05): Running a household means keeping accounts, and a city that wants to build a new industry 
- [Not Models, but a Model Factory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-factory-25-1105b) (2026-11-05): Mention a factory and people picture an assembly line, machine tools, and finished items c
- [Data Centers Go Up Here, Orders Get Counted There](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hardware-bill-24-1105b) (2026-11-05): The earlier articles were all about spending: data centers, servers and chips, paid out qu
- [The Budget Sheet Stayed; a Few Numbers Moved](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capex-guide-23-1105b) (2026-11-05): The same cloud firms had barely handed in one quarter's bill when they restated their plan
- [The Cabinets Aren't Powered On Yet, but the Bill Has Arrived](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capex-quarter-22-1105b) (2026-11-05): How much can be spent in a single quarter? Looking at one company's statements alone, it i
- [Same Data Centers, Different Faces in the Ledger](https://neuroai.site/a/na-cashflow-split-21-1105b) (2026-11-05): In the same week, three major cloud companies turned in their quarterly results one after 
- [What Fed the Model Has to Be Spelled Out](https://neuroai.site/a/na-training-proof-20-1105b) (2026-11-05): A model can write and draw because vast amounts of material were fed into it earlier. But 
- [Hearing Is No Longer Believing: Call Back That Number](https://neuroai.site/a/na-clone-risk-19-1105b) (2026-11-05): The voice on the phone belongs to someone you know, urgent in tone, saying there has been 
- [The Livestream Has a Label, the Clip Does Not](https://neuroai.site/a/na-live-label-18-1105b) (2026-11-05): In a livestream room, a digital human host is mid-pitch, and a line of small text in the c
- [A Voice Has an ID Card Too, So Who Speaks for It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-voice-right-17-1105b) (2026-11-05): Hand a recording to a tool and, before long, it can produce the voice of someone you know,
- [The Model Sees, But Cannot Touch](https://neuroai.site/a/na-touch-data-16-1105b) (2026-11-05): A model can write essays, recognize images and talk fluently about a video, yet ask it to 
- [A Pair of Hands, Building the Next](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hand-line-15-1105b) (2026-11-05): What a factory has most of is repetition; what it lacks most is a hand that can handle sur
- [A Hand, Pricier Than an Engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hand-price-14-1105b) (2026-11-05): When buying a machine, people usually ask the price of the whole unit first; taken apart, 
- [A Hand, Sold to the Lab First](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hand-volume-13-1105b) (2026-11-05): Robots can run, jump and do flips on a show stand, yet they often stall the moment they mu
- [A Whole Machine Room Packed Into a Container](https://neuroai.site/a/na-container-dc-12-1105b) (2026-11-05): A container is lifted onto an open space outside the exhibition hall, its doors swing open
- [One Wafer, and Who Gets It First](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hbm-wafer-11-1105b) (2026-11-05): A wafer spread out is like a flat sheet of dough that has not yet been cut. From the same 
- [The Phone Price Rise Was Written in a Machine Room](https://neuroai.site/a/na-memory-bill-10-1105b) (2026-11-05): A newly bought laptop costs a little more than last year, and the prices of several flagsh
- [The Star of the Booth: From a Chip to a Rack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-expo-rack-09-1105b) (2026-11-05): Walk into the technical equipment zone and the first thing that catches the eye is not row
- [The Ticket Was Closed, but Only Half the Work Got Done](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-slack-08-1105b) (2026-11-05): In a report, the OpenAI alignment research team describes a pattern that is easy to overlo
- [The Scaffolding That Used to Be Built In-House Is Now for Rent](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hosted-agent-07-1105b) (2026-11-05): On November 5, the same day it released the model weights, Moonshot AI also launched a ser
- [The New Model Walked In and the Rack Lit Up the Same Day](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ascend-dayzero-06-1105b) (2026-11-05): From November 4 to 5, the full model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro were released to the public.
- [The Door Is Open, but the Recipe Is Still Locked in the Drawer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-open-weights-05-1105b) (2026-11-05): From November 4 to 5, Moonshot AI put a large model called Kimi K3.1 Pro online in full. I
- [The Ticket Is in Hand, but the Equipment Hasn't Come In](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-gap-04-1105b) (2026-11-05): Once medical insurance assigns a code and sets a price, an implantable medical technology 
- [A Registration Certificate Puts a Threshold on Four Characters](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-label-03-1105b) (2026-11-05): In June 2026, the National Medical Products Administration issued the Guiding Principles f
- [A Price List Arrived Before the Patients Did](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-price-02-1105b) (2026-11-05): In March 2025, the National Healthcare Security Administration issued the Guideline on Est
- [On the Road to Raise Money, a Reimbursement Slip Caught Up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-reimburse-01-1105b) (2026-11-05): On November 3, the Hubei Provincial Healthcare Security Administration announced that the 
- [The Robot Understands You Now; It Still Cannot Thread a Needle](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wang-xingxing-32-1105) (2026-11-05): November 4, Wuzhen. At the Internet Entrepreneurs Forum of the World Internet Conference, 
- [A Long Essay About Slowing Down, Under a Stack of Price Cuts](https://neuroai.site/a/na-dario-31-1105) (2026-11-05): September 12. Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, posted an essay on his own websi
- [Everyone Talked About Open Source; He Offered One Word: Foundation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-zhang-yaqin-30-1105) (2026-11-05): November 4, Wuzhen. The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit was under way, under 
- [In an Oil Country, a Chip Seller Draws a Cake](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jensen-kazakhstan-29-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 23, in Astana. At Kazakhstan's national artificial intelligence center, NVIDIA 
- [Bigger Data Centers, Money Flowing to Tiny Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-edge-chip-28-1105) (2026-11-05): You speak into your phone and the transcript appears without a wait. You drive onto the hi
- [A TV Doesn't Need a Brain of Its Own](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hisense-alibaba-27-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 4, two signing books lay on a table at a ceremony. On one side was Hisense, on
- [The Headset Didn't Sell, So It Became a Screen](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meta-vr-26-1105) (2026-11-05): At a launch event in late September, Meta showed a pair of glasses. There is no strap. It 
- [Two Tabs, Then One](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chatgpt-merge-25-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 2, some paying ChatGPT users opened the desktop app and found an email waiting
- [The World's Top Seat Has a New Occupant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nvidia-dow-24-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 3, after the U.S. market opened, Nvidia rose 2.32 percent and its market value
- [A Ten-Year Data Center Lease, Signed Before the Revenue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-debt-23-1105) (2026-11-05): The easiest thing to skip in a prospectus is the notes. In a document of more than 300 pag
- [One Quote Sheet, Revised Twice in a Month](https://neuroai.site/a/na-openai-cut-22-1105) (2026-11-05): On Friday, October 30, the Financial Times reported it first. Citing several people famili
- [A Five-Year-Old Company Is Knocking on Nasdaq's Door](https://neuroai.site/a/na-anthropic-ipo-21-1105) (2026-11-05): On the evening of October 26, a document of more than 300 pages went up on the website of 
- [Send Out a Quote, and This Business Has Finally Opened](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-video-biz-20-1105) (2026-11-05): Open an advertising agency’s rate card this year and a new line has appeared: AI video pro
- [Between Copying and Remixing, a Filing Form Appears](https://neuroai.site/a/na-copyright-action-19-1105) (2026-11-05): A five-person team now carries a budget line it never had before: compliance. Not much mon
- [A Photo’s ID Card, Due by the End of the Year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-eu-labeling-18-1105) (2026-11-05): An ordinary street scene, reworked by a model into a snowy night. Snow on the road, breath
- [The Soundstage Is Empty, and the Audience Is Still Waiting](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-drama-flood-17-1105) (2026-11-05): In Hengdian, rent a room, set up two computers, and a few young people can “shoot” three e
- [A Robot's First Real Job: Learning Every Box on the Pharmacy Shelf](https://neuroai.site/a/na-pharmacy-robot-16-1105) (2026-11-05): In a corner of the "Light of the Internet" expo in Wuzhen, a space has been fitted out as 
- [An American Company Built a Robot and Says It Has No Plans to Sell It](https://neuroai.site/a/na-meta-fourier-15-1105) (2026-11-05): In the past month, a widely circulated story in robotics was not a new product launch. It 
- [The Robot Can Backflip. Now It's Being Sent to Fold Clothes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-show-14-1105) (2026-11-05): For two years, the most viral humanoid robot videos have had almost nothing to do with wor
- [The Robots JD Is Buying Mostly Don't Have Two Legs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jd-robots-13-1105) (2026-11-05): On the afternoon of November 4, in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, Cao Peng, chairman of JD Group's tech
- [The Most Common Chip in the Server Room Is a Different Kind Now](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-accelerator-12-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 13, Reuters obtained a report from IDC. It contained a set of numbers on accele
- [More Server Rooms, but the Keys Went to Two Tenants First](https://neuroai.site/a/na-compute-math-11-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 3, at a conference called Runtime 2026, Dylan Patel, founder of the semiconduc
- [A Warehouse of Chips Ordered, a Few Boxes Delivered](https://neuroai.site/a/na-rtx-delivery-10-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 4, Bloomberg published a report about deliveries. Several large Chinese artifi
- [One Rack, Two Price Tags](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nvidia-51-09-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 3, the Financial Times published a short report. Five unnamed people familiar 
- [On One Page, Two Numbers Orders of Magnitude Apart](https://neuroai.site/a/na-wuzhen-bluebook-08-1105) (2026-11-05): On the morning of November 4, in Wuzhen, two blue books sat on a lit table, one about the 
- [A Crowd of Assistants Learns to Swap Business Cards](https://neuroai.site/a/na-agent-pact-07-1105) (2026-11-05): Picture a scene that is not far off: you ask Company A's assistant to book a meeting room 
- [One Switch, and the Phone Gets a Different Assistant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-apple-qwen-06-1105) (2026-11-05): In the early hours of November 4, some developers' phones received a new beta build. After
- [A Model That Reads Pictures Now Clicks the Mouse](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-hy4-05-1105) (2026-11-05): On the morning of November 4, at Tencent's booth at the Light of the Internet Expo in Wuzh
- [Musk's Blindsight Is Still Waiting for One Approval](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuralink-blindsight-04-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 30, Musk posted on the social platform he owns about two Neuralink products: th
- [The Brain-Implant Threshold: Four Cases First, Two Years Later](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-standard-03-1105) (2026-11-05): On October 22, a notice appeared on the website of the medical device evaluation center un
- [The Factory Is Built, the Operating Table Is Still Empty](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-funding-02-1105) (2026-11-05): On November 4, Shanghai Active Intelligence Technology announced a 464 million yuan angel-
- [A Coin-Sized Implant, Now Waiting in Line to List](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-ipo-01-1105) (2026-11-05): In early November, one more name appeared on the pre-IPO tutoring register on the securiti
- [XAG's Farm Robots Reach 70 Countries as China's Second-Biggest Agri-Drone Maker Eyes a Hong Kong IPO](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xag-agri-drone-global) (2026-11-05): Guangzhou-based XAG has turned agricultural drones and farm robots into a profitable globa
- [Spirit AI Raises 1.5 Billion Yuan A+ Round to Build the "Brain" for Humanoid Robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-spirit-ai-moz1-funding) (2026-11-05): Hangzhou startup Spirit AI has raised roughly 4.5 billion yuan in six months, betting that
- [Kepler's K2 Bumblebee Puts a Sub-$35,000 Humanoid on Real Factory Floors](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-kepler-k2-blue-collar-humanoid) (2026-11-05): Shanghai startup Kepler says its K2 Bumblebee humanoid is in mass production at a starting
- [Hai Robotics' Rack-Climbing Robots Top 10,000 as China's Warehouse Automation Goes Global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-hai-robotics-acr-global) (2026-11-05): Shenzhen-based Hai Robotics says more than 10,000 of its rack-climbing warehouse robots ar
- [Hong Kong's Generative AI Guideline Takes the Soft-Law Path: Voluntary Rules for Developers, Providers and Users](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-hk-genai-guideline) (2026-11-05): Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office published a voluntary generative AI guideline in April 2
- [EU AI Act Timeline Reset: What the Digital Omnibus Changes for Global AI Builders](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-eu-ai-act-timeline) (2026-11-05): The EU AI Omnibus has pushed back high-risk obligations to December 2027 and August 2028, 
- [23 AI Technologies on the Table: What China's Draft Export-Control Update Means for Going Global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-tech-export-catalogue-draft) (2026-11-05): A draft revision of China's restricted technology export catalogue proposes controls on 23
- [XGBoost and TVM Creator Tianqi Chen Bets on the Layer Beneath the Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tianqi-chen-ml-systems) (2026-11-05): How Tianqi Chen turned open-source machine learning systems into quiet infrastructure that
- [ModelBest CEO Li Dahai Bets Small Models Will Win the Ground War](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-li-dahai-modelbest) (2026-11-05): From founding Google China engineer to Zhihu CTO to ModelBest CEO, Li Dahai argues the fut
- [Intellifusion Founder Chen Ning Bets the Next AI Battle Happens at the Edge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-ning-intellifusion) (2026-11-05): Chip architect turned returnee founder Chen Ning built Intellifusion on a simple wager: AI
- [MOSS-Image Brings Poster-Grade Typography to Open Text-to-Image](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-moss-image-open-typography) (2026-11-05): A 5B-parameter open text-to-image model from China's OpenMOSS team targets the hardest par
- [Open Weights Meet the Tax Code: Inside China's Lingjing Tax Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-lingjing-tax-llm-open) (2026-11-05): An 8.95B-parameter open model trained on 8,000-plus Chinese tax regulations aims at a prob
- [1,000 Domestic Chips Carried a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model Through Training](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v4pro-ascend-training) (2026-11-05): A Shenzhen consortium including Huawei ran full-parameter post-training for DeepSeek's 1.6
- [A 744B-Parameter Agentic Model Arrives Under an MIT Licence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-atria-dawn-open-agent-mit) (2026-11-05): Shanghai AI Laboratory has released the full weights of Atria Dawn, a 744B-parameter agent
- [Meta's Answer to the AI Cash Crunch: Non-Voting Class C Shares](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-meta-class-c-ai-financing) (2026-11-05): Meta beats on revenue but burns cash as 2026 capex guidance rises to $135-145 billion, and
- [Apple's AI Reset: New Bench, a Custom Gemini Siri and a Pivot to Glasses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-apple-siri-reorg-ondevice) (2026-11-05): Apple rebuilds its AI leadership under Craig Federighi, plans a revamped Siri powered part

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