# 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 (39 articles)
- [Brain–Computer Interface](https://neuroai.site/c/brain): Neurotech · Restoration · Clinical (103 articles)
- [Humanoids & Robotics](https://neuroai.site/c/robot): Embodied · Humanoid · Dexterous (109 articles)
- [Foundation Models](https://neuroai.site/c/model): Open source · Agents · Multimodal (104 articles)
- [Chips & Compute](https://neuroai.site/c/chips): Accelerators · Clusters · Supply (101 articles)
- [Generative Media](https://neuroai.site/c/aigc): Video · Avatars · Stories (95 articles)
- [AI in Action](https://neuroai.site/c/app): Industry · Health · Farms (85 articles)
- [Policy & Governance](https://neuroai.site/c/policy): AI Plus · Standards · Ethics (75 articles)
- [Capital & Markets](https://neuroai.site/c/capital): Funding · Listings · Margins (71 articles)
- [Builders](https://neuroai.site/c/people): Researchers · Clinicians · Founders (71 articles)
- [Companies & Stack](https://neuroai.site/c/corp): Strategy · Platforms · Chains (75 articles)

## Recent articles

- [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
- [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
- [China's compliance-audit rule makes personal-data checks a recurring duty](https://neuroai.site/a/na-personal-info-compliance-audit-rules) (2026-10-27): CAC Order No. 18, effective May 1, 2025, requires large personal-information handlers to a
- [Peng Zhihui's AgiBot bets on open-source humanoids and a robot data engine](https://neuroai.site/a/na-peng-zhihui-agibot-embodied-ai) (2026-10-27): How Huawei 'Genius Youth' Peng Zhihui built AgiBot around open hardware, a foundation mode
- [A 19-year-old played Black Myth: Wukong with his thoughts alone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuroxess-mind-controlled-games-chinese) (2026-10-27): Shanghai's NeuroXess used a 256-channel flexible implant to let an epilepsy patient play A
- [NEO becomes the world's first approved invasive brain-computer interface](https://neuroai.site/a/na-neuracle-neo-world-first-invasive-bci-ap) (2026-10-27): China's NMPA cleared Neuracle's NEO, the first invasive BCI medical device approved anywhe
- [China's Network Data Security Regulations extend rules to AI training data](https://neuroai.site/a/na-network-data-security-regulations) (2026-10-27): State Council Order No. 790, in force since Jan 1, 2025, governs network data handling and
- [China's US$8.4bn national AI fund starts deploying into models and chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-national-ai-fund) (2026-10-27): The RMB 60.06bn (≈US$8.4bn) National AI Industry Investment Fund, set up in January 2025, 
- [MiniMax lands Hong Kong IPO at top of range, raising HK$4.8bn](https://neuroai.site/a/na-minimax-hong-kong-ipo) (2026-10-27): MiniMax (稀宇科技) debuted on HKEX at HK$165, valuing the four-year-old AI lab above HK$100bn 
- [A professor-led Shenzhen lab became a humanoid unicorn on motion control alone](https://neuroai.site/a/na-limx-dynamics-b-round) (2026-10-27): LimX Dynamics' $200 million round shows investors will pay for walking algorithms, not jus
- [Kuaishou's Kling AI hits US$240M run-rate on text-to-video demand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kling-ai-revenue-run-rate) (2026-10-27): Kling AI (可灵) reported RMB 340M Q4 2025 revenue and a US$240M annual run-rate, showing Chi
- [Kimi K2: Moonshot open-sources a 1-trillion-parameter agent model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-kimi-k2-open-agent-model) (2026-10-27): Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1T-parameter open-weight MoE tuned for tool use, and it qu
- [China's biggest retailer is quietly running robot warehouses and driverless delivery vans](https://neuroai.site/a/na-jd-logistics-robots) (2026-10-27): JD Logistics' "wolf" robot fleet and autonomous vehicles moved the country's 180-billionth
- [Huawei's Ascend 910C bets on cluster scale over single-chip speed](https://neuroai.site/a/na-huawei-ascend-910c-cluster-scale) (2026-10-27): With export controls capping single-chip performance, Huawei is wiring hundreds of Ascend 
- [HeyGen's digital humans hit ~US$100M run-rate on the back of 175 languages](https://neuroai.site/a/na-heygen-digital-humans) (2026-10-27): HeyGen, a China-rooted digital human (数字人) video platform, reported roughly US$100M ARR in
- [GLM-4.5 unifies reasoning, coding, and agent skills in one open model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-glm-4-5-agent-native-open-model) (2026-10-27): Zhipu's GLM-4.5 open-weights MoE folds reasoning, coding, and tool use into a single agent
- [A Shenzhen humanoid taught itself to walk like a person, then flipped](https://neuroai.site/a/na-engineai-se01-front-flip) (2026-10-27): EngineAI's SE01 turned a natural gait and a front flip into a funding surge led by JD.com.
- [DeepSeek-R1 proved open weights could reason like o1](https://neuroai.site/a/na-deepseek-r1-open-reasoning-model) (2026-10-27): Released January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 matched OpenAI's o1 on math and code under an MIT licen
- [China Built a State Company to Sell AI Its Raw Material](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-state-data-group) (2026-10-27): China's state data company is meant to turn scattered official records into datasets AI la
- [China's AI-for-Science Push Is Public Infrastructure, Not a Better Model](https://neuroai.site/a/na-decode-ai-for-science-labs) (2026-10-27): Provincial platforms, robotic labs and new standards show where China's science-AI money g
- [CXMT races to mass-produce HBM3 and close China's memory gap](https://neuroai.site/a/na-cxmt-hbm3-domestic-memory) (2026-10-27): Long a DRAM also-ran, ChangXin Memory is sampling HBM3 to Huawei and prepping mass product
- [China's AI content labeling rules are now law — here is what creators must do](https://neuroai.site/a/na-china-ai-content-labeling) (2026-10-27): Since September 1, 2025, every AI-produced text, image, audio, and video served in China m
- [Cambricon turns first profit as China's AI chip demand explodes](https://neuroai.site/a/na-cambricon-first-profit-ai-chip) (2026-10-27): The Beijing accelerator maker posted its first-ever annual profit in 2025 on 453% revenue 
- [ByteDance's Doubao tops 382M users and tests paid tiers](https://neuroai.site/a/na-bytedance-doubao-382m-paid-tiers) (2026-10-27): ByteDance's Doubao reached 382 million monthly users per QuestMobile, while its cloud arm 
- [BrainCo files for Hong Kong IPO as non-invasive BCI goes commercial](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brainco-noninvasive-bci-unicorn-hong-kon) (2026-10-27): China's first BCI unicorn, BrainCo, closed a US$286M round and filed confidentially in Hon
- [Beijing's Beinao-1 lets paralyzed patients speak and move again](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beinao-one-clinical-trials-speech-decodi) (2026-10-27): The Beijing Brain Science Institute's Beinao-1 has been implanted in five patients, restor
- [Twenty humanoids lined up for a half marathon, and only one finished clean](https://neuroai.site/a/na-beijing-humanoid-half-marathon) (2026-10-27): Beijing's 2025 humanoid half marathon exposed the gap between demo robots and machines tha
- [Alibaba commits ¥380B to AI and cloud infrastructure over three years](https://neuroai.site/a/na-alibaba-380b-ai-cloud-infrastructure) (2026-10-27): Alibaba plans at least 380 billion yuan (≈US$52.4B) in cloud and AI infrastructure spend t
- [TAL's AI tutor is now in 50+ Chinese schools — and graded by a government lab](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-tutor-china-schools-rollout) (2026-10-27): TAL Education's Jiuzhang AI tutor app runs dual virtual teachers in 50+ schools, and its m
- [China's AI content labeling rules put a watermark on every synthetic post](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-synthetic-content-labeling) (2026-10-27): Four agencies' Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content and a mandatory nation
- [China's AI medical imaging clears 200 approvals as hospitals add a 'second reader](https://neuroai.site/a/na-ai-medical-imaging-china-rollout) (2026-10-27): China's drug regulator had approved 207 AI medical-device certificates by late 2025; deep-
- [Over 320,000 DJI crop drones flew China's fields in 2025 — and started lifting freight](https://neuroai.site/a/na-agricultural-drones-china-precision-farm) (2026-10-27): DJI Agriculture ran 320,000+ drones across Chinese farms in 2025; in Heilongjiang field-me
- [Tencent's The Five robot wants to help China's elderly stand up — and stay up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-tencent-five-eldercare) (2026-10-25): Tencent Robotics X unveiled The Five (小五), a hybrid wheeled-quadruped elder-care robot in 
- [RoboSense reinvents itself as a robot 'parts and brains' supplier](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-robosense-robotics-platform) (2026-10-25): LiDAR maker RoboSense (速腾聚创, 02498.HK) used its January 2025 'Hello Robot' event to reposi
- [Dobot's Hong Kong IPO makes collaborative robots a listed asset class](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-dobot-hkex-ipo) (2026-10-25): Shenzhen's Dobot (越疆) listed on HKEX on 23 December 2024 under 2432.HK, raising about HK$6
- [Deep Robotics' Lynx (山猫) turns stairs, slopes and 80-cm ledges into a walk](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-deeprobotics-lynx-allterrain) (2026-10-25): Hangzhou's Deep Robotics (云深处) launched the Lynx (山猫), a wheel-leg all-terrain robot in No
- [Two new national standards give AI operating systems a common rulebook](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-os-standards) (2026-10-25): China published two guidance national standards (GB/Z 299-2026 and GB/Z 300-2026) for AI o
- [China floats export curbs on large models and AI agents — but only as a draft](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-export-control-draft) (2026-10-25): A draft revision (open for comment until Nov 15, 2026) would add 23 AI technologies — incl
- [China's State Council wants AI to create jobs, not just cut them](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-employment-friendly) (2026-10-25): A State Council General Office opinion issued Oct 16, 2026 lays out 18 tasks to make AI em
- [Yu Kai's Horizon Robotics: from Baidu lab to a HK$5.4 billion Hong Kong debut](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yu-kai-horizon-founder) (2026-10-25): How machine-learning scientist Yu Kai left Baidu, founded Horizon Robotics in 2015, and to
- [Yang Zhilin and Kimi: the open-source trillion-parameter gamble behind Moonshot AI](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-yang-zhilin-moonshot-kimi-founder) (2026-10-25): How a Tsinghua- and CMU-trained researcher built Moonshot AI and its Kimi chatbot, then re
- [Han Bicheng's BrainCo: putting a brain-computer interface in a prosthetic hand](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-han-bicheng-brainco-founder) (2026-10-25): How Harvard-trained neuroscientist Han Bicheng built BrainCo (强脑科技) around non-invasive br
- [Xiaomi ships MiMo-V2.6 as a native omnimodal model and open-sources it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-xiaomi-mimo-v26) (2026-10-25): Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 series arrives as natively omnimodal open-weight models, with a phone-m
- [SenseTime's SenseNova V6 banks on native multimodal to top two leaderboards](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-sensetime-sensenova-v6) (2026-10-25): SenseTime's SenseNova V6 leans on a unified understand-and-generate architecture to claim 
- [Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a trillion-parameter model built on 50,000 domestic chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-meituan-longcat-20) (2026-10-25): Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained and 
- [Ant open-sources Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a 124B model that runs finance workflows on 5.1B active params](https://neuroai.site/a/na-model-ant-ling-financial) (2026-10-25): Ant Group open-sourced Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a finance-tuned large model (大模型), alongside th
- [Zhipu open-sources 1M-context GLM models built to run on Chinese chips](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-zhipu-glm-open-source) (2026-10-25): Zhipu (智谱) released GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.3-Flash under the MIT license, pairing a 1M-token co
- [SenseTime posts its first profit as generative AI reaches 80% of revenue](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-sensetime-2026-turnaround) (2026-10-25): SenseTime (商汤) reported its first-ever IFRS profit for the first half of 2026, with genera
- [Huawei Cloud's agent push reaches 2,600 enterprises on Ascend silicon](https://neuroai.site/a/na-corp-huawei-cloud-ai-stack) (2026-10-25): Huawei Cloud (华为云) is packaging its full-stack AI — Ascend 950 accelerators, ModelArts, an
- [SICC became the world's top silicon-carbide wafer maker — and lost money doing it](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-sicc-sic) (2026-10-25): SICC (天岳先进), the Shandong producer of silicon-carbide substrates, says it led the global S
- [Iluvatar CoreX bet on general-purpose GPUs and just posted 92% revenue growth](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-iluvatar-corex) (2026-10-25): Iluvatar CoreX (天数智芯), the Shanghai designer behind the 'Tiansai' and 'Zhikai' GPU familie
- [One in three Chinese smart cars runs on Horizon Robotics' chips — can it outlast the price war?](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-horizon-robotics) (2026-10-25): Horizon Robotics (地平线) supplies the compute behind roughly a third of China's intelligent-
- [Eoptolink wires Google and Amazon's AI data centers — and just filed for a US$5 billion Hong Kong listing](https://neuroai.site/a/na-chips-eoptolink) (2026-10-25): Eoptolink (新易盛), the Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, rode the 800G and 1
- [Li Auto's in-house chip unit raises US$229 million and a billion-dollar valuation](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-li-auto-machev-chip) (2026-10-25): Li Auto's chip subsidiary Shanghai Mahexin Technology signed a 1.625 billion yuan first-ro
- [Infinigence raises US$324 million to stitch China's fragmented AI compute together](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-infinigence-series-c) (2026-10-25): Shanghai Infinigence (无问芯穹) closed a 2.3 billion yuan Series C in October 2026, lifting cu
- [Biren's HK$4 billion top-up: China's GPU champion keeps coming back for more](https://neuroai.site/a/na-capital-biren-hk-placement) (2026-10-25): Shanghai Biren Technology placed HK$4.04 billion of new H-shares in October 2026 — its thi
- [A 'happy switch' in the skull: Ruijin Hospital's brain-computer interface for treatment-resistant depression](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-ruijin-depression-bci) (2026-10-25): Shanghai Ruijin Hospital has treated 23 treatment-resistant depression patients with a BCI
- [A blind woman wrote the word 'China': how a 320-channel retinal implant rebuilt vision](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-nuanxinja-visual-bci) (2026-10-25): Hangzhou's Nuanced Chip (暖芯迦) placed a 320-channel retinal brain-computer interface in a f
- [The 4-gram patch that listens to your sleep: Flexem's consumer brain-computer interface](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-flexem-sleep-bci) (2026-10-25): Zhejiang Flexem (柔灵科技) ships a 4-gram non-invasive EEG patch with closed-loop sound that n
- [Beinao-2: China's 1,024-channel invasive brain-computer interface moves from monkey to human](https://neuroai.site/a/na-brain-beinao2-invasive-bci) (2026-10-25): Beijing's self-developed high-channel invasive BCI has held a stable implant in a macaque 
- [XAG's farm drones are going public — and redrawing China's agriculture map](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-xag-ag-drones) (2026-10-25): Guangzhou's XAG filed a Hong Kong IPO on the back of AI-powered agricultural drones, as po
- [Insilico's fully AI-designed lung drug enters Phase III trials](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-insilico-ai-drug) (2026-10-25): A drug whose target and molecular structure were both generated by AI has reached Phase II
- [China's AI digital-human market crosses ¥48B as livestream hosts go virtual](https://neuroai.site/a/na-app-digital-human-livestream) (2026-10-25): From JD's ¥14B GMV windfall to a national labeling rule, AI anchors are moving from novelt
- [Tencent open-sources HY-World 2.0, where one prompt builds a 3D game level](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tencent-hunyuan-world-3d) (2026-10-25): On April 16, 2026, Tencent released and open-sourced Hunyuan 3D World Model 2.0 (HY-World 
- [Tencent's Hy Image 3.5 wins 30% more designer blind tests — and aims at work, not play](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-tencent-hunyuan-image) (2026-10-25): Tencent Hunyuan released Hy Image 3.5 preview on September 22, a professional text-to-imag
- [ByteDance doubles AI video length to 30 seconds — and adds an edit button](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-seedance-2-5) (2026-10-25): Seedance 2.5, released July 31, extends single-shot AI video to 30 seconds with synchroniz
- [iFlytek's AI dubbing collapses China's short-drama localization from days to hours](https://neuroai.site/a/na-aigc-iflytek-ai-dubbing) (2026-10-25): iFlytek's Yizhi (讯飞译制) dubbing platform upgraded in July 2026 to emotionally clone voices 
- [A robot-brain startup raises ≈¥3 billion in a month as Lei Jun and Jack Ma team up](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-xsquare-brain-funding) (2026-10-24): X Square Robot (千寻智能) closed a ¥1 billion round co-led by Lei Jun's Shunwei and Jack Ma's 
- [Ant Group leads its third bet on cable-driven robot maker Astribot in a year](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-stardust-astribot-cabledriven) (2026-10-24): Stardust Intelligence (星尘智能), selling robots under the Astribot brand, says it is the firs
- [MicroPort MedBot's Toumai surgical robot finds its growth story abroad](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-micropot-medbot-2025) (2026-10-24): MicroPort MedBot's 2025 revenue reached RMB 551 million, with overseas sales at 73% of the
- [China publishes first humanoid-robot rulebook as 140 firms race to ship](https://neuroai.site/a/na-robot-humanoid-standard-system) (2026-10-24): On February 28, 2026 Beijing released the first national standard system for humanoid robo
- [China amends patent examination rules to cover AI and data inventions](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-patent-examination) (2026-10-24): China's patent office revised its examination guide effective 1 January 2026, adding a ded
- [China issues rules for AI that mimics human interaction](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-anthropomorphic-interaction) (2026-10-24): Five agencies issued interim measures for anthropomorphic AI interaction services, effecti
- [China issues guidance and standards for autonomous AI agents](https://neuroai.site/a/na-policy-ai-agent-governance) (2026-10-24): Three agencies issued May 2026 guidance for AI agents, paired with a seven-part recommende
- [The XPeng robotics veteran now building humanoids that walk like people](https://neuroai.site/a/na-people-zhao-tongyang-engineai) (2026-10-24): Zhao Tongyang left XPeng's robotics unit to found EngineAI, whose SE01 humanoid is markete

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