# 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 (143 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (153 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (148 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (145 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (143 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (120 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (108 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (102 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (103 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (108 articles)

## Recent articles

- [Tsinghua's non-invasive BCI: faster signals, smaller hardware](https://neuroai.site/a/na-tsinghua-ssvep-noninvasive-bci) (2026-11-06): Tsinghua researchers led by Gao Xiaorong advanced non-invasive brain-computer interfaces —
- [Stair Med's implantable BCI reaches China's regulatory fast lane](https://neuroai.site/a/na-stair-med-implantable-bci) (2026-11-06): Shanghai's Stair Med (阶梯医疗) put a 256-channel implantable brain-computer interface into pa
- [Pudu's quiet global push: how a Shenzhen robot maker sells abroad without a price war](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-pudu-overseas-expansion) (2026-11-06): Pudu Robotics ships service and cleaning robots to 85+ countries. We break down its Glocal
- [Gausium's 20-billion-square-meter bet: the unglamorous economics of cleaning robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-gs-robotics-cleaning-amr) (2026-11-06): Gausium (高仙机器人) delivered 40,000+ cleaning robots in 70+ countries. We verify its funding,
- [Galbot's retail robot: why a Beijing lab put humanoids in pharmacies first](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-galbot-retail-humanoid) (2026-11-06): Galbot (银河通用) deployed its G1 humanoid in Beijing pharmacies and stores. We verify its CAT
- [Astribot's bet on hands, not feet: a Shenzhen humanoid that learns by watching](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-astribot-dexterous-humanoid) (2026-11-06): Stardust Intelligence's Astribot S1 hits 10 m/s with its arms and learns by imitation. We 
- [Pudong's weather-data market rule: opening climate data to finance under a negative list](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-pudong-weather-data-market) (2026-11-06): Pudong's 2025 meteorological-data marketization rule opens weather data to finance under a
- [Beijing's AI-native city model: turning adoption into benchmark application engineering](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-beijing-ai-native-city) (2026-11-06): Beijing's 2024–2025 AI+ Action Plan built an 'AI-native city' through flagship application
- [China's agent-interconnection standards: giving every AI agent a digital ID to break the 'agent island](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-agent-interconnection-standards) (2026-11-06): China released 7 agent-interconnection standards in June 2026 as guidance docs, giving eac
- [From Sogou to Baichuan: Wang Xiaochuan points China's AI at the clinic, not the chat box](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xiaochuan-baichuan) (2026-11-06): After selling Sogou to Tencent, Wang Xiaochuan built Baichuan Intelligent and staked it on
- [Tang Jie and the GLM blueprint: how a Tsinghua lab became a HK$53 billion listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tang-jie-zhipu-glm) (2026-11-06): Tsinghua professor Tang Jie built the GLM architecture behind Zhipu AI, taking a universit
- [Lee Kai-Fu's 01.AI: from a 'world's No.1' model to software for the corner office](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-lee-kai-fu-01ai) (2026-11-06): Innovation Works founder Lee Kai-Fu bet on frontier models with 01.AI, then handed trainin
- [InternLM3 and the 'thinking density' bet from Shanghai AI Lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-internlm3-thinking-density) (2026-11-06): InternLM (书生·浦语), from Shanghai AI Laboratory (上海人工智能实验室), released InternLM3-8B-Instruct 
- [iFlytek Spark X1 and the case for fully domestic model training](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-x1-domestic-compute) (2026-11-06): iFlytek (科大讯飞) released Spark X1 (星火 X1) on 15 Jan 2025 as China's first deep-reasoning la
- [Baichuan-M2: why a Chinese startup bet its open weights on medicine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baichuan-m2-medical-open) (2026-11-06): Baichuan (百川智能) open-sourced Baichuan-M2, a 32B medical-enhanced large model (大模型) that ru
- [01.AI's quiet retreat from frontier training: a model-economics case study](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-01ai-pivot-from-frontier) (2026-11-06): 01.AI (零一万物), founded by Kai-Fu Lee (李开复), stopped pretraining frontier large models (大模型)
- [NetEase Fuxi's reverse pipeline: shipping game AI to real mines](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-netease-fuxi-game-ai) (2026-11-06): NetEase's Fuxi lab built game AI, then sent it to excavators and ports. We look at the in-
- [JD's JoyAI reboot: how a retailer turned its supply chain into an AI product](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-jd-joyai-cloud-ai) (2026-11-06): JD rebranded its Yanxi model to JoyAI and opened its agent stack. We examine the retail-to
- [iFlytek's wide-aisle bet: how a speech pioneer became China's AI department store](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-iflytek-ai-strategy) (2026-11-06): iFlytek turned speech leadership into a sprawling AI retail empire. We unpack the platform
- [The quiet IP house behind China's AI chips: how VeriSilicon turned design libraries into leverage](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-verisilicon-silicon-ip) (2026-11-06): VeriSilicon (芯原) doesn't sell chips — it sells the building blocks and the factory plan. A
- [From security cameras to car eyes: how SmartSens quietly became a top-five image-sensor maker](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-smartsens-cis) (2026-11-06): SmartSens (思特威) turned surveillance and machine-vision sensors into a top-five global CIS 
- [GigaDevice's quiet bet: why a NOR Flash maker thinks cars and AI edge need its memory](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-gigadevice-nor-flash) (2026-11-06): GigaDevice (兆易创新) built its name on NOR Flash (NOR闪存) and MCUs. As autos and AI edge surge
- [Losing money, raising billions: why Anlogic is still betting on China's FPGA gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-anlogic-fpga) (2026-11-06): Anlogic (安路科技) posts losses yet chases FPGA (现场可编程门阵列) self-reliance. AI servers and cars 
- [China writes its first rulebook for brain-computer interface devices](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-bci-terminology-standard) (2026-11-06): China issued its first brain-computer interface medical-device terminology standard (YY/T 
- [Moore Threads' US$1.1 billion STAR Market IPO tests China's appetite for unprofitable chipmakers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-moore-threads-star-ipo) (2026-11-06): Moore Threads (摩尔线程) raised about US$1.1 billion in its December 2025 STAR Market debut, t
- [Black Sesame's HK$1.04 billion Hong Kong IPO shows the limits of Chapter 18C euphoria](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-black-sesame-hkex-ipo) (2026-11-06): Black Sesame (黑芝麻智能) raised HK$1.04 billion in its August 2024 Hong Kong IPO under Chapter
- [AgiBot's Tencent-led funding round values China's embodied-AI challenger above US$2 billion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-agibot-funding) (2026-11-06): AgiBot (智元机器人) reached a US$2.1 billion valuation after a Tencent-led 2025 round and now t
- [BrainCo bets on non-invasive BCI for focus, learning and prosthetic limbs](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brainco-bci-headsets) (2026-11-06): China's BrainCo (强脑科技) is pushing non-invasive brain-computer interfaces from classrooms t
- [WPS AI (金山办公) and the Slow Rise of the Office Companion](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-wps-ai-office) (2026-11-06): How Kingsoft's WPS AI (金山办公) reached 80M+ monthly users by embedding agents inside the doc
- [Quark (夸克) and the Quiet Reinvention of Chinese Search](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-quark-ai-search) (2026-11-06): How Alibaba's Quark (夸克) rebuilt a browser into an 'AI Super Box' for 200M+ users — and wh
- [DingTalk (钉钉) and the Office That Starts Answering Back](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-dingtalk-ai-workplace) (2026-11-06): How DingTalk (钉钉), Alibaba's work platform with 700M+ users, turned meetings, files, and q
- [Kunlun's Skywork: SkyReels (天工) and Mureka push Chinese AI video and music outward](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-skywork-skyreels-mureka) (2026-11-06): Kunlun Wanwei's Skywork ships SkyReels (天工) video and Mureka music, plus microdrama (短剧) p
- [SenseNova (日日新) V6: SenseTime's unified multimodal model for media tasks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-sensenova-v6) (2026-11-06): SenseTime's SenseNova (日日新) V6 fuses text, image and video with a 620B MoE core. A look at
- [Meitu's MiracleVision (奇想): an aesthetic-first visual model for media work](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-meitu-miraclevision) (2026-11-06): Meitu's MiracleVision (奇想) powers image, design and video generation for 280M monthly user
- [Gǎodìng (稿定设计): turning product photos into finished ads with layered generation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-gaoding-ai-design) (2026-11-06): Gǎodìng (稿定设计) serves 100M individuals and 5M firms with layered AI design. A look at how 
- [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
- [Amazon Bets a $220 Billion Year on Its Own AI Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-amazon-trainium-capex-bet) (2026-11-05): Amazon keeps its 2026 capex near $220 billion and doubles down on Trainium, betting that i
- [Samsung's Foundry Fightback Puts Texas on the AI Chip Map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-samsung-foundry-comeback) (2026-11-05): A $16.5 billion Tesla contract, a second Taylor fab booked for HBM base dies, and improvin
- [Intel's Foundry Comeback Now Runs Through Nvidia](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-intel-foundry-nvidia-partnership) (2026-11-05): Nvidia's $5 billion stake and the 18A-built Panther Lake launch are turning Intel's foundr
- [Glass Substrates Are the Quiet Race to Pack More AI Into One Chip Package](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-glass-substrate-packaging) (2026-11-05): Intel, SKC's Absolics, and now TSMC are betting that glass can replace organic substrates 
- [OpenAI's Own Chip Shows Why Big AI Is Breaking Up With the GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-custom-ai-asic-wave) (2026-11-05): The nine-month sprint behind OpenAI's Jalapeño accelerator with Broadcom explains why hype
- [Sparse Computing Startup Moxin AI Raises Nearly RMB 1 Billion C+ Round for Inference Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-moxin-sparse-inference-c-plus-ro) (2026-11-05): Moxin AI closes a nearly RMB 1 billion (≈ US$140M / HK$1.1B) C+ round, its second large ra
- [Kuaishou-Backed Chip Spinout Lingchuan Technology Closes RMB 1 Billion Series B](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-lingchuan-video-chip-series-b) (2026-11-05): Lingchuan Technology, the video chip company spun out of Kuaishou, raises a RMB 1 billion 
- [GenRobot Closes US$100 Million Series A+ to Scale Robot Training Data Infrastructure](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-genrobot-robot-data-infrastructu) (2026-11-05): GenRobot, the Beijing embodied data startup founded in 2025, raises US$100 million (≈ RMB 
- [Starfish Neuroscience Bets on Many Tiny Brain Implants Instead of One Big One](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-starfish-multiregion-chip) (2026-11-05): Backed by Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, Starfish unveiled a 2x4 mm, 1.1 mW chip designed f
- [Meta's Neural Wristband Turns a Flick of the Wrist Into a New Way to Use Computers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-meta-neural-band-emg-wrist) (2026-11-05): Meta shipped an EMG wristband that reads muscle signals for touch-free control, making neu
- [Neuralink's Blindsight Is Ready for Regulators, Not Yet for Patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-blindsight-cortical-vision) (2026-11-05): Elon Musk calls the Blindsight implant engineering-ready, but no vision-restoration trial 
- [Apple Now Treats Brain Implants as a Native Input Source for iPhones](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-apple-bci-hid-native-input) (2026-11-05): Apple's BCI HID protocol lets implanted brain-computer interfaces control iPhone, iPad and
- [China's Telecom Towers Now Double as AI Forest-Fire Watchtowers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-tower-ai-forest-fire-watch) (2026-11-05): Provinces across China are mounting cameras and fire-spotting algorithms on telecom towers
- [From Watching to Predicting: China's Fengyun Weather Satellites Get Their First Extreme-Weather AI Models](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-fengyun-extreme-weather-ai-models) (2026-11-05): China's satellite meteorology agency has put two AI models into operational use — one that
- [Amap's Wheelchair Navigation Now Covers 70 Chinese Cities](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-amap-wheelchair-navigation) (2026-11-05): Amap's barrier-free navigation has grown from three cities to more than 70, handling over 
- [One Photo, One Voice Track: ByteDance's OmniHuman Makes Single-Image Digital Humans a Mainstream Tool](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-omnihuman-one-photo-digital-human) (2026-11-05): ByteDance's OmniHuman model line and its rollout inside Jimeng AI have moved digital human
- [MiniMax's Hong Kong Bet: Hailuo AI Video Demand Turns From Consumer App Into Enterprise Engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-minimax-hailuo-enterprise-turn) (2026-11-05): MiniMax's Hong Kong listing and its first-half report show the maker of Hailuo AI shifting
- [Kunlun's Matrix-Game 3.5: Open-Source World Models Reach Real-Time Playable Generation on One GPU](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-kunlun-matrix-world-model) (2026-11-05): At WAIC 2026, Kunlun Tech released and open-sourced Matrix-Game 3.5, a 5B-parameter world 
- [DomoAI's Discord-First Play: How an Anime Restyle Tool Built a Five-Million-Creator Business Overseas](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-domoai-anime-restyle-overseas) (2026-11-05): DomoAI turned video-to-video anime restyling into a global subscription business, built in
- [At under US$16,000, China's Unitree G1 puts a humanoid in every lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-unitree-g1-global-dev) (2026-11-04): Unitree's G1 turned the humanoid from a six-figure showcase into a sub-US$16,000 developer
- [China's Walker S2 humanoid swaps its own battery in 3 minutes — and never stops working](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-ubtech-walker-s2-autoswap) (2026-11-04): UBTECH's Walker S2 solves the robot-shift problem with a hot-swappable dual-battery system
- [Neolix has put 10,000 driverless delivery vans on the road — and just raised US$600M](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-neolix-autonomous-delivery) (2026-11-04): Neolix, the Beijing robovan maker, claims the world's largest L4 autonomous-delivery fleet
- [From rehab beds to humanoids: Fourier's GR-2 bets that caregiving is the real market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-gr2-healthcare-bridge) (2026-11-04): Fourier Intelligence, built on rehabilitation robotics, is steering its GR-2 humanoid and 
- [China coded its AI safety baseline into national standards — training data, models, and oversight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-safety-baseline-standard) (2026-11-04): A 2023 draft guidance for generative-AI safety became an adopted national standard in 2025
- [China has passed zero unified AI laws — and the flagship bill is still just a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-law-draft-stage) (2026-11-04): Despite years on the legislative calendar, China's comprehensive Artificial Intelligence L
- [China mandates dual labels on AI-made content: visible marks and invisible watermarks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-content-labeling-rules) (2026-11-04): A four-agency rule now forces Chinese AI tools to tag their own output with both on-screen
- [Wang Haifeng built the stack under Baidu's search box — and China's first open deep-learning platform](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-haifeng-baidu) (2026-11-04): How Wang Haifeng (王海峰), Baidu's CTO, turned language research into PaddlePaddle (飞桨) and t
- [Wang Changhu bet on text-to-video at PixVerse — and reached 100 million users before most rivals shipped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-changhu-pixverse) (2026-11-04): How a former ByteDance visual-technology chief turned a Douyin-era labeling playbook into 
- [Chen Tianshi bet on a chip built only for neural networks — and shipped it in a phone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-chen-tianshi-cambricon) (2026-11-04): How Chen Tianshi (陈天石) co-founded Cambricon (寒武纪) with his brother and pushed the 'deep le

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