According to this Wikipedia entry, "In 2008 de Garis received a 3 million Chinese yuan grant (around $436,000) to build an artificial brain for China (the China-Brain Project), as part of the Brain Builder Group at Wuhan University."
Click on the image below to watch Prof. de Garis on The Discovery Channel's "Brain Child" video.
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