# 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
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## Topics

- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (17 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (22 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (21 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (16 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (13 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (13 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (9 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (8 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (7 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (8 articles)

## Recent articles

- [China will build 100,000 humanoids in 2026 — but fewer than 1 in 5 is actually on the job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-100k-deploy) (2026-09-27): MIIT projects China's humanoid output above 100,000 units this year, a 5x jump. Yet tracke
- [China's "BeiNao-1 (北脑一号)" just cleared 10 human implants — what a semi-invasive brain chip actually changes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-beinao-10-implants) (2026-09-27): A Beijing-backed brain-computer interface has reached 10 implants with over 45,000 hours o
- [China's Mureka Outsang Suno on the Global Music AI Bench — But Can It Out-Earn It?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-china) (2026-09-27): Kunlun Tech's Mureka V8 ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis's vocals and instrumental music l
- [Alibaba's Omni Model (全模态模型) Watches, Listens and Acts — Can One Brain Replace a Stack of Tools?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-multimodal-china) (2026-09-26): Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash handles text, image, audio and video in a one-million-token window and 
- [China's open-weight model wave — flagship 大模型 you can download, not just rent](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-china-open-models) (2026-09-26): Across late August and September 2026, Alibaba, Tencent, Zhipu and ModelBest published ope
- [Cambricon Posted Its First-Ever Profit — But Can It Actually Build Half a Million Chips in 2026?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-inference-chip) (2026-09-26): Cambricon turned its first annual profit in 2025 on soaring inference-chip revenue, and no
- [Huawei's 4,096-card supernode — why China is rebuilding AI compute from the rack up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-cambricon-sept) (2026-09-26): At Huawei Connect 2026, Huawei unveiled the Ascend 960 supernode — 4,096 cards behind one 
- [A humanoid robot now works real shifts in a Chinese warehouse](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-warehouse-china) (2026-09-25): At WAIC 2026, JD Logistics and AgiBot unveiled Genie G2 Max and put it to work in JD's Zhi
- [China's robot-chip maker just banked $400M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-drobotics-400m-series-c) (2026-09-25): D-Robotics, the robotics-computing spin-off from Horizon Robotics, closed a $400M Series C
- [A paralyzed man now picks up strawberries—thanks to a Chinese brain implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-rehab-china) (2026-09-25): A Beijing-backed semi-invasive brain-computer interface called BeiNao-1 has reached nearly
- [China's AI stops demoing and starts shipping](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-leaves-demo-stage) (2026-09-25): Across September 2026, Chinese deployments of agents, autonomous delivery vehicles and hos
- [One humanoid every ten minutes: inside the factory where robots build robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-liuzhou-factory) (2026-09-24): On 12 September 2026, UBTECH switched on a 14,000 m² "super smart factory" in Liuzhou desi
- [China binds AI agents with a mandatory safety standard](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-standard) (2026-09-24): China has launched a mandatory national safety standard for AI agents—the first of its kin
- [This AI Scientist Says China's Real Bottleneck Isn't the Chip — It's the Idea](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-china-ai-scientist) (2026-09-24): At WAIC 2026, Peking University's Zhu Songchun argued that true general intelligence needs
- [One-click microdramas: how China's AI video models turned short drama into an export](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-microdrama-overseas) (2026-09-24): At a Shanghai conference on 4 September 2026, China's AI microdrama (短剧) overseas push got
- [Two Chinese large models (大模型) just reset what "good enough" costs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-kimi-efficient) (2026-09-23): In September 2026, DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash — a 552B open-weight model with a 1M-token
- [Tencent Open-Sourced Its Smartest Model Yet — And Wired It Through Yuanbao and Beyond](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-ai) (2026-09-23): Through 2026 Tencent rebuilt its Hunyuan (混元) foundation model around real-world usefulnes
- [Two of China's 'AI Tigers' Listed in 24 Hours — Is Hong Kong Becoming the AI Float of Choice?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-ipo-china) (2026-09-23): In January 2026, generative-AI pioneers Zhipu and MiniMax listed on the Hong Kong Stock Ex
- [China just wrote the first global rule for AI brain-computer interfaces (脑机接口)](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-china-ai-eeg-standard) (2026-09-23): China's drug regulator published the world's first medical-device standard for AI-processe
- [Beijing's "AI + Software" plan: 100 agent apps and a 2028 deadline](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-software-plan) (2026-09-22): China's MIIT has published a national "AI + Software" action plan with hard 2028 targets—2
- [Kai-Fu Lee: China's open-source AI models just hit their global moment](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-kaifulee-global-ai) (2026-09-22): At the 26th China International Fair for Investment & Trade, 01.AI founder Kai-Fu Lee argu
- [China's office workers just got AI colleagues — and they're already on the clock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-agent-china) (2026-09-22): In summer 2026, ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Kingsoft all shipped AI Agent (智能体)
- [AI turned short dramas into a factory — and the factory is going global](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-short-drama) (2026-09-22): In 2026, AI cut the cost of making microdrama (短剧) by up to 90% and pushed the overseas ma
- [DeepSeek's most-anticipated model never launched — here's what shipped instead](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-new) (2026-09-21): The rumored DeepSeek R2 reasoning model never shipped. Instead, in April 2026 the lab rele
- [Alibaba's AI Sprint: Open Weights for Images, Closed APIs for the Rest](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-qwen-sept-sprint) (2026-09-21): Across 18–20 September 2026 Alibaba's Qwen team shipped three notable releases — an open-s
- [The last of China's "GPU Four" just went public — and the real test begins](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-domestic-gpu) (2026-09-21): On 11 September 2026, Enflame (燧原科技) listed on Shanghai's STAR Market (科创板), completing th
- [ByteDance just spun its AI drug lab into a $1.5B company — why that matters](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-anew-labs-290m) (2026-09-21): ByteDance spun off its AI drug-discovery unit Anew Labs, which then raised US$290M at a US
- [China's humanoid price war just put a walking robot within used-car range](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-price-drop) (2026-09-20): Unitree cut its entry humanoid to ¥29,900 (≈ US$4,150 / HK$32,400) in mid-2026, capping a 
- [Can Huawei's Supernode (超节点) Outsmart the Chip Ban—or Just Defer the Problem?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-960-supernode) (2026-09-20): At Connect 2026 Huawei said it has deployed over 1,000 Ascend 910C supernodes and unveiled
- [China approved a brain chip for sale before Neuralink could. Here is the real gap.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-neuralink-china-compare) (2026-09-20): Neuralink had implanted roughly two dozen people by mid-2026 but still had no commercial a
- [Can China's AI Short-Drama (短剧) Finally Make Money—or Is the Hype Ahead of the Cash?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kling-microdrama) (2026-09-20): Kuaishou's Kling AI crossed 850 million yuan in quarterly revenue while microdrama (短剧) su
- [When the AI sounds human, China now says it must come with a label and a leash](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-china-ai-regulation) (2026-09-19): China's five regulators issued the first dedicated rules for anthropomorphic AI companions
- [A Chinese AI founder's bet: agents are leaving the chat window for the physical world](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-china-ai-founder) (2026-09-19): At WAIC 2026, StepFun chairman Yin Qi argued AI has crossed a capability threshold and tha
- [DeepSeek's Cheapest Model Just Learned to See — and the Weights Are Open](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v41-flash) (2026-09-19): On 10 September 2026 DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a 552B-parameter open-weight large mode
- [Can a 251-Million-Customer Insurer Run on "One Sentence"?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ping-an-ai-service) (2026-09-19): Ping An has wired "one sentence does the job" into the front door of its financial and hea
- [China opened a factory that builds a humanoid every 10 minutes — here's the fine print](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-liuzhou) (2026-09-18): UBTECH's Liuzhou "super smart factory" opened on Sept 12, 2026 with planned capacity above
- [Baidu opens ERNIE 4.5 to the world — the closed-source champion flips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-ai-update) (2026-09-18): On 30 June 2026 Baidu fully open-sourced the ERNIE 4.5 (文心 4.5) series — 10 models under A
- [Kimi's $3.5B round makes it China's best-funded AI startup](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-china-ai-funding) (2026-09-18): Moonshot AI's Kimi closed a Series F above US$3.5 billion at a US$35 billion valuation in 
- [China's brain chip that never touches brain tissue just entered regulated trials](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-neuroxess-trial) (2026-09-18): NeuroXess (脑虎科技) launched a GCP registration trial for its "三全" subdural brain-computer in
- [What Is an AI Agent? A Plain-English Guide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-ai-agent) (2026-09-17): An AI agent is a system that can plan, use tools, and act toward a goal with limited human
- [What Is AGI? A Plain-English Guide to Artificial General Intelligence](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-agi) (2026-09-17): Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the hypothetical point where a machine matches or
- [Robotaxis in China — Baidu Apollo Go, Pony.ai and the World's Biggest Driverless Fleets](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robotaxi-china) (2026-09-17): China runs the largest robotaxi (自动驾驶出租车) trials on Earth, led by Baidu's Apollo Go (萝卜快跑)
- [Nvidia vs AMD in AI Chips — Who Builds the Engines for the AI Boom?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nvidia-vs-amd-ai-chips) (2026-09-17): Nvidia dominates AI compute with its GPUs and the CUDA software stack; AMD is the credible
- [China's Open-Source AI Models Explained — Qwen, DeepSeek and the Rest](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-open-models) (2026-09-17): China has become the world's largest source of openly released AI models. This guide expla
- [China's AI Policy Explained — the "AI Plus" Plan and What It Means](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-ai-policy-2026) (2026-09-17): China's AI strategy is less a single law and more a stack of plans: a national agenda, the
- [Ant's AQ hits 150 million users — China's AI health front door](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-health-china) (2026-09-17): Ant Group's AI-native health app AQ passed 150 million users in September 2026, eight mont
- [Can Kling 3.0 turn one prompt into a directed, voiced short?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-video-model-launch) (2026-09-17): Kuaishou's Kling 3.0, launched globally on 5 February 2026, folds text-to-video, native au
- [What Is DeepSeek? Open Weights and Why They Shook the Industry](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-deepseek) (2026-09-16): DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab that released frontier-grade models with open weights and a f
- [What Is a Brain–Computer Interface? A Plain-English Guide](https://neuroai.site/a/na-what-is-bci) (2026-09-16): A brain–computer interface (BCI) reads electrical signals from the brain and turns them in
- [Neuralink vs Chinese BCI: What's Actually Different](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuralink-vs-chinese-bci) (2026-09-16): Neuralink gets most of the headlines, but in 2026 a Chinese implantable BCI, NEO, became t
- [Alibaba Open-Sourced a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Qwen — and Finally Cracked Open the "Max-Class" Vault](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen-new-release) (2026-09-16): In August 2026 Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max and, for the first time, open-sourced the weig
- [Humanoid Robots in 2026: A Field Guide to Who's Building Them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-humanoid-robots-field-guide-2026) (2026-09-16): Everyone is building a humanoid robot. This field guide maps the serious contenders — Unit
- [Huawei Ascend vs Nvidia: China's Bet on Homegrown AI Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-huawei-ascend-vs-nvidia) (2026-09-16): Nvidia's GPUs power most AI outside China. Huawei's Ascend series is the domestic alternat
- [How Does a Humanoid Robot Actually Work?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-how-humanoid-robots-work) (2026-09-16): Strip away the videos and a humanoid robot is three problems: move, see, and think. This e
- [Huawei's New Supernode Puts 4,096 Chips in One "Computer" — But the Win Is in the Glass, Not the Silicon](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-cloud) (2026-09-16): At Huawei Connect 2026 (17 September) Huawei launched the Ascend 960 supernode (昇腾960超节点),
- [Unitree's New G1+ Costs Less Than a Car — But Can It Actually Work a Shift?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-new-model) (2026-09-15): Unitree unveiled the G1+ humanoid (人形机器人) on 14 September 2026 at 95,000 yuan (≈ US$13,400
- [China Approved the World's First Brain Implant. The Harder Clinical Race Is Just Starting.](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-china-2026-clinical-wave) (2026-09-15): A coin-sized semi-invasive implant cleared China's regulator in March 2026. Months later, 
- [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

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