# 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)

## Topics

- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (36 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (41 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (40 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (31 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (31 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (31 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (21 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (22 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (20 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (21 articles)

## Recent articles

- [China's First Long-Term Implant Lets a Limbless Patient Play Games by Thought](https://neuroai.site/a/na-stairmed-longterm-implant) (2026-10-03): Shanghai's StairMed completed China's first long-term invasive BCI implant trial; a four-l
- [Meituan's delivery drones cleared 740,000 orders — then won the first nationwide license](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-meituan-drone-delivery) (2026-10-03): Meituan (美团) runs one of the world's largest drone-delivery networks — 65 routes and 740,0
- [Before the humanoid hype, Fourier was already building robots that help people walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-fourier-rehab-exoskeleton) (2026-10-03): Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶) turned rehabilitation robotics into its core business — exoskel
- [Dobot and JAKA: how two Chinese cobot makers turned 80 countries into a market](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-china-cobots-global) (2026-10-03): Collaborative robots (协作机器人) from Dobot (越疆) and JAKA (节卡) now ship worldwide — Dobot list
- [100 robots, 1 million tasks: inside AgiBot's embodied-AI data engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-agibot-world-dataset) (2026-10-03): AgiBot (智元机器人) open-sourced AgiBot World, a million-trajectory real-robot dataset built by
- [China's New Training-Data Rules Put Copyright and Quality on the Same Checklist](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-training-data-copyright) (2026-10-03): Three national standards effective November 1, 2025 spell out how AI training data must be
- [China's AI-Content Labeling Rule Is Now Live — Here's How Platforms Comply](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-content-labeling) (2026-10-03): Since September 1, 2025, every AI-generated text, image, audio, and video in China must ca
- [China Adds a Comprehensive AI Law to Its 2026 Legislative Agenda](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-law) (2026-10-03): China has folded a comprehensive artificial-intelligence law into its 2026 legislative wor
- [Wang Xiaochuan traded the search wars for a medical-AI moonshot at Baichuan](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-wang-xiaochuan-baichuan) (2026-10-03): From Sogou's founder to Baichuan's medical-AI bet — how an internet veteran is staking Chi
- [Inside Zhipu's GLM roadmap with chief scientist Tang Jie](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-tang-jie-zhipu) (2026-10-03): Tsinghua professor and Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie built the GLM (大模型) line behind China's f
- [Kai-Fu Lee bet big on open models — then rebuilt 01.AI around enterprise AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-kai-fu-lee-01ai) (2026-10-03): How Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI went from open-weight Yi models to a lean enterprise-AI play, and w
- [No Surgery, Just Signals: How China's Non-Invasive BCI Is Reaching Stroke Patients](https://neuroai.site/a/na-noninvasive-stroke-rehab) (2026-10-03): BrainCo and Bournatech are putting non-invasive brain–computer interfaces into hospitals f
- [Shanghai's NeuroXess Takes a Different Route to the Brain — and Enters Pivotal Trials](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuroxess-flexible-bci) (2026-10-03): NeuroXess's "Triple-F" flexible BCI began NMPA-registered trials for paralyzed patients; i
- [Your Thoughts Are Now Sensitive Data: China Writes Privacy Rules for Brain Signals](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neural-data-privacy) (2026-10-03): As BCI moves from lab to clinic, China's PIPL and a new 2025 neurotech ethics guideline tr
- [Zhipu's GLM-5 Ships 744B Open Weights — Trained Entirely on Huawei Chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm5) (2026-10-03): Released 11 February 2026, Zhipu's GLM-5 is a 744-billion-parameter open-weight large mode
- [Alibaba's Qwen3-Max Crosses One Trillion Parameters — but Stays Behind a Paywall](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-qwen3-max) (2026-10-03): Unveiled at Alibaba's Apsara Conference in September 2025, Qwen3-Max is the company's larg
- [ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 Cuts Token Prices by 10x as Seedance 2.0 Goes Live](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-bytedance-doubao2) (2026-10-03): On 14 February 2026 ByteDance's Volcano Engine launched Doubao-Seed-2.0, with video model 
- [Baidu's ERNIE 5.0 Packs 2.4 Trillion Parameters Into One Native Multimodal Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-baidu-ernie5) (2026-10-03): Released 22 January 2026, Baidu's ERNIE 5.0 (文心 5.0) is a 2.4-trillion-parameter native om
- [Xiaomi's MiMo puts AI on the device, not in the cloud](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-xiaomi-edge-ai) (2026-10-03): Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo, a 7-billion-parameter reasoning model, and pointed its AI strate
- [Tencent gives Hunyuan away, chasing the cloud, not the chatbot](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-tencent-hunyuan-strategy) (2026-10-03): Over twelve months Tencent turned Hunyuan from a closed model into one of China's most ope
- [Huawei opens PanGu to developers, wiring industry AI to Ascend](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-pangu-opensource) (2026-10-03): Huawei's PanGu large model, long a closed industry tool, went open-source in 2025 — a stra
- [Moore Threads hits the public market: China's "first full-function GPU" stock](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-moore-threads-ipo) (2026-10-03): How a five-year-old Beijing GPU designer became a public company, and what its loss-making
- [CXMT's DDR5 and HBM push: the memory half of China's AI stack](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-ddr5-hbm) (2026-10-03): How ChangXin Memory turned DDR5 into volume production and began sampling HBM3, and why me
- [Biren's BR100: a Chinese GPGPU that beat the A100 — then hit the wall](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-biren-br100) (2026-10-03): The story of Biren's BR100 and BR104, the TSMC node they were built on, and how US sanctio
- [Huawei's Ascend 920: SMIC's N+3 node fills the Nvidia H20 gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-ascend-920-n3) (2026-10-03): Reported details of Huawei's next AI accelerator and the SMIC process node behind it, and 
- [Unitree's US$590M STAR Market IPO Makes a Profitable Humanoid Maker Public](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-unitree-ipo) (2026-10-03): Unitree cleared China's fastest-ever hard-tech IPO review and will list on the STAR Market
- [China's AI-Chip IPO Wave: Moore Threads, Biren and MetaX Hit the Boards](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-ai-chip-ipo-wave) (2026-10-03): Three domestic GPU and accelerator makers — Moore Threads, Biren and MetaX — went from pri
- [AgiBot's US$2.1B Private Round Signals a Humanoid Capital Race](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-agibot-round) (2026-10-03): Shanghai humanoid maker AgiBot reached a ~US$2.1B private valuation in 2025 and is widely 
- [On China's farms, the drone now flies itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-dji-agri-drones) (2026-10-03): DJI Agriculture and XAG have turned autonomous crop-spraying drones from a gadget into rou
- [China Mobile's AI assistant passed 100 million monthly users](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-china-mobile-lingxi) (2026-10-03): China Mobile's 灵犀 (Lingxi) assistant crossed 100 million monthly active users by end of 20
- [China's coders picked up AI pair-programmers — and kept them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-ai-coding-ides-china) (2026-10-03): ByteDance's Trae, Baidu's Comate (文心快码) and Alibaba's Tongyi Lingma (通义灵码) have moved from
- [即梦 Jimeng: ByteDance's AI video app puts film production in beginners' hands](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-jimeng-video) (2026-10-03): ByteDance's 即梦 (Jimeng) app turns text and images into short videos, pulling AI video crea
- [HunyuanVideo: Tencent open-sources a 13-billion-parameter video model, and developers actually show up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-hunyuanvideo) (2026-10-03): Tencent released HunyuanVideo as open weights in December 2024, giving researchers a front
- [Seedance and Seedream: inside ByteDance's fast-iterating image and video model family](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-bytedance-seedance) (2026-10-03): ByteDance's Seed team ships generative image and video models on a relentless cadence, and
- [China's AI music race: three homegrown models take on Suno in Mandarin](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-ai-music-china) (2026-10-03): As Suno made AI songwriting a global talking point, Chinese companies built music large mo
- [The Robots That Ride Elevators for a Living: YunJi's Hotel Machines Have Served 500 Million Times](https://neuroai.site/a/na-yunji-hotel-robots-scale) (2026-10-02): YunJi Technology, China's largest hotel robot (酒店机器人) operator, listed on the Hong Kong St
- [A Chinese humanoid just walked into Airbus's factory — and that is the real milestone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ubtech-walker-s2-airbus) (2026-10-02): In January 2026, Airbus ordered UBTech's (优必选) Walker S2 humanoid for aircraft manufacturi
- [Before a Chinese AI model goes public, it has to file a six-part dossier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-generative-ai-filing-system) (2026-10-02): China runs a two-track gate for generative AI (生成式人工智能): a large-model filing (大模型备案) for 
- [China is writing the rulebook for what AI models are allowed to learn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-training-data-security-standar) (2026-10-02): Two national standards taking effect on 1 November 2025 — GB/T 45652-2025 and GB/T 45674-2
- [The 32-year-old who bet China's AI future on "remembering more](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot) (2026-10-02): Yang Zhilin (杨植麟), founder and CEO of Moonshot AI (月之暗面) and creator of Kimi, went from a 
- [The Tsinghua engineer who spent 20 years teaching paralyzed hands to listen to the brain](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-hong-bo-neo-bci) (2026-10-02): Hong Bo (洪波), a Tsinghua University professor, led the NEO brain-computer interface (脑机接口)
- [Through a Vein, Not the Skull: How China's "Third Kind" of BCI Helped a Paralyzed Man Use His Arm Again](https://neuroai.site/a/na-nankai-vein-delivered-bci-stroke) (2026-10-02): Nankai University's team delivered a brain-computer interface to a stroke patient's motor 
- [MiniMax-Text-01 reads 4 million tokens at once — by rewriting the transformer](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-text-01-long-context) (2026-10-02): MiniMax (稀宇科技) open-sourced MiniMax-Text-01 in early 2025: a 456-billion-parameter mixture
- [A Century-Old Brain Argument, Settled by a Marmoset: Chinese-Led Team Maps the Cortex's Two Poles](https://neuroai.site/a/na-marmoset-brain-atlas-dual-gradient) (2026-10-02): A China-led team published the first single-cell, whole-brain atlas of the marmoset in Sci
- [One Humanoid Every 30 Minutes: China's First 10,000-a-Year Humanoid Line Starts Running](https://neuroai.site/a/na-leju-foshan-10000-humanoid-line) (2026-10-02): A joint line built by Dongfang Precision and Leju Robotics in Foshan has begun rolling ful
- [Kimi K2 — a trillion-parameter open model trained to use tools, not just chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kimi-k2-agentic-open) (2026-10-02): Moonshot AI (月之暗面) released Kimi K2's open weights in July 2025: a 1-trillion-parameter mi
- [Hygon's DCU — the "CUDA-like" domestic accelerator behind China's non-Nvidia AI stacks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hygon-dcu-deepsuan3) (2026-10-02): Hygon Information (海光信息) pairs an x86-compatible CPU with a GPGPU accelerator, the DCU, th
- [Tencent's Hunyuan-A13B — an open-weight reasoning model with a 256K context and a licence that bans EU use](https://neuroai.site/a/na-hunyuan-a13b-open-weights) (2026-10-02): Tencent released the weights of Hunyuan-A13B, an 80-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts m
- [Baidu just threw its flagship ERNIE 4.5 models fully open — why now?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-baidu-ernie45-open) (2026-10-02): On June 30, 2025, Baidu open-sourced the full ERNIE 4.5 (文心4.5) family — 10 models under A
- [Alibaba's quiet bet — turn Quark into China's AI front door](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-alibaba-quark-ai-superapp) (2026-10-02): Alibaba repositioned its Quark (夸克) app from a browser-tool into an AI-native "all-in-one 
- [SiCarrier: the Shenzhen state-backed chip-equipment startup seeking a $2.8 billion debut](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sicarrier-equipment) (2026-10-02): Born from a Huawei-linked lab and owned by Shenzhen's government, SiCarrier unveiled more 
- [Horizon Robotics just won Hong Kong's biggest tech IPO — on three years of losses](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-horizon-hk-ipo) (2026-10-02): The Beijing autonomous-driving chip maker priced its Hong Kong debut at HK$3.99 and raised
- [Alibaba is betting US$52 billion on AI infrastructure — more than its last decade combined](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-alibaba-380b-capex) (2026-10-02): In February 2025 Alibaba committed at least ¥380 billion (≈ US$52.4B) to cloud and AI hard
- [A Ward, a Price Code, a Bill: Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Becoming a Hospital Service in China](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-wards-hospital-service) (2026-10-02): Top Chinese hospitals are opening dedicated brain-computer interface (脑机接口) wards and clin
- [From 10 minutes to 3: AI imaging arrives in a rural Chinese county hospital](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shukun-county-hospital-ai) (2026-10-02): At Nanpi County People's Hospital in Hebei, AI from Beijing-based Shukun Technology report
- [Can a large model (大模型) take miners out of the danger zone?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-shandong-energy-pangu-mine) (2026-10-02): Huawei and Shandong Energy deployed the Pangu Mining Model (盘古矿山大模型) across 70+ coal mines
- [Can an AI weather model forecast typhoons better than a supercomputer?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-pangu-weather-forecast) (2026-10-02): Huawei's Pangu Weather (盘古气象大模型), published in Nature in 2023, matched or beat traditional
- [Seedream 4.0 edged out Nano Banana — ByteDance's $0.03-per-image play for the global picture](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedream-4-image) (2026-10-02): ByteDance's Seedream 4.0 became the first Chinese image model to top Artificial Analysis's
- [ReelShort is about to cross $1 billion — and China's microdrama playbook finally pays for itself](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-reelshort-billion-microdrama) (2026-10-02): ReelShort, the vertical microdrama (短剧) app built by a studio backed by Beijing's COL Grou
- [Hailuo 02 out-ranked Veo 3 — can MiniMax's budget video model keep the crown?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-hailuo-02-video-cost) (2026-10-02): MiniMax's Hailuo 02 shocked the AI video world in mid-2025 by ranking second on the Artifi
- [Inside XPeng's factory: the Iron humanoid that sorts, carries, inspects](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xpeng-iron-humanoid) (2026-10-01): Chinese EV maker XPeng (小鹏汽车) built its own humanoid (人形机器人), Iron, and already runs it on
- [China now has a national yardstick for large models — GB/T 45288.2-2025](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-large-model-eval-45288) (2026-10-01): A new national recommended standard, GB/T 45288.2-2025, tells Chinese labs how to measure 
- [China's generative-AI security baseline is now live — what GB/T 45654-2025 actually asks](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-genai-security-baseline-45654) (2026-10-01): A new national recommended standard, GB/T 45654-2025, sets the security homework behind Ch
- [Zhi Hui Jun (稚晖君): the "Genius Youth" who left Huawei to build embodied robots](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-peng-zhimin-agibot) (2026-10-01): Peng Zhimin (彭志辉), the engineer known as Zhi Hui Jun, traded a top-tier Huawei chip role f
- [Jia Yangqing (贾扬清): the Caffe creator who built China's cloud-AI bridge](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-jia-yangqing-lepton) (2026-10-01): A Tsinghua- and Berkeley-trained systems researcher wrote the Caffe framework, led Alibaba
- [The brain sensor is leaving the clinic — China's sleep and focus wearables move into the bedroom](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neurotech-home-sleep) (2026-10-01): Non-invasive brain–computer interface gear is shifting from hospitals to homes in China, l
- [GLM-4.5: Zhipu open-sources a 355B model built for agents, not just chat](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-zhipu-glm45-open-weights) (2026-10-01): Zhipu AI released GLM-4.5, a 355-billion-parameter open-weight (开源权重) model tuned for inte
- [Spark X1.5: iFlytek's 293B model trained fully on domestic compute](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-iflytek-spark-x15) (2026-10-01): iFlytek (科大讯飞) released Spark (星火) X1.5, a 293-billion-parameter MoE model trained and run
- [DeepSeek V3.1: one model, two minds, built for the agent era](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-deepseek-v31-agentic) (2026-10-01): DeepSeek's 21 August 2025 update merges thinking and non-thinking into a single open-weigh
- [China says it will build 100,000 humanoids this year — but most still aren't on the job](https://neuroai.site/a/na-humanoid-100k-output-gap) (2026-10-01): At the 2026 World AI Conference, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology p
- [The "last centimeter": China's dexterous hands are finally learning to feel](https://neuroai.site/a/na-dexterous-hands-last-centimeter) (2026-10-01): As humanoid bodies learn to walk, Chinese makers of dexterous hands (灵巧手) are racing to gi
- [Volcano Engine (火山引擎): how ByteDance turned Doubao into a model-as-a-service engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-volcano-ark-maas) (2026-10-01): ByteDance's cloud arm built a model-as-a-service (MaaS) layer on top of its Doubao large m
- [Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon join PyTorch as Platinum members — can China's AI stack go open?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-pytorch-foundation-china) (2026-10-01): At PyTorch Conference China in Shanghai, the PyTorch Foundation named Alibaba Cloud and Ca
- [China's memory maker just handed Huawei a sample of the one chip AI can't live without](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-cxmt-hbm3-huawei) (2026-10-01): ChangXin Memory (长鑫存储, CXMT) has reportedly shipped 16nm HBM3 samples to Huawei — a small 
- [Kunlunxin: the Baidu chip unit heading for a Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-baidu-kunlunxin) (2026-10-01): Baidu's AI-accelerator arm Kunlunxin (昆仑芯) filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO and la
- [EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO — is a 3-year-old robot maker worth $1.5B?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-engineai-hk-ipo) (2026-10-01): Shenzhen humanoid-robot startup EngineAI has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing,
- [ByteDance's AI capex jumps 25% to ~$29B — who pays for Doubao?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-bytedance-ai-capex) (2026-10-01): ByteDance has lifted its 2026 AI-infrastructure capital spending to more than 200 billion 
- [A worm that walks inside the brain: China's "NeuroWorm" electrode can move after implant](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-neuroworm-dynamic-electrode) (2026-10-01): A team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology and Donghua University built a 
- [A paralyzed art teacher paints again — China's "fully wireless" brain implant closes the loop](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bci-art-teacher-paints) (2026-10-01): A 29-year-old artist left unable to move his hands after an accident has regained the abil
- [AI plans ship loads 13x faster at Shanghai's Yangshan Port](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-yangshan-port-ai-stowage) (2026-10-01): At Asia's busiest container port, an AI model now produces ship-loading plans more than te

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