Tag: neuroxess

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Industry News

NeuroXess says its Mandarin-decoding brain implant runs at 300 characters a minute, faster than native speech

Shanghai-based NeuroXess says a 35-year-old woman with epilepsy fitted with its 256-channel surface-cortex implant has been decoded reading Mandarin at 300 characters per minute through a large language model layer, faster than the roughly 220 cpm rate of a native Mandarin first-language speaker. Co-founder and chief scientist Tiger Tao disclosed the figure to Nature on 19 May 2026. The underlying paper has not yet been published, but the result sits on top of NeuroXess's already peer-reviewed Science Advances paper from 5 November 2025 (71.2% accuracy across 394 Mandarin syllables in a 43-year-old woman with epilepsy).

May 28

Market Moves

China issues guided pricing for invasive BCI procedures as provinces begin reimbursement roll-out

China's National Healthcare Security Administration has set government-guided prices of 6,000–6,600 yuan per invasive brain-computer interface implantation procedure, with Sichuan, Hubei and Zhejiang now attaching fee schedules at the provincial level — moving the country further ahead of the United States on the reimbursement layer that will decide whether BCIs scale as routine medicine.

Apr 23

Opinion

Inside China's Sprint to Own the Brain-Computer Interface Industry

In just nine months China has issued a national BCI blueprint, overtaken the United States in BCI patent filings, funnelled hundreds of millions into startups, and has just granted the world's first commercial implant approval.

Mar 14

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