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165.6M MAU
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127.1M MAU
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57.4M MAU
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Trump and Xi discussed AI during their Washington summit. Trump rebranded 'artificial intelligence' as 'Super Intelligence' and directed U.S. diplomats to use the term, the U.S. proposed a bilateral notification mechanism for national-security-related AI incidents, and China's commerce ministry confirmed the two countries held their first formal AI dialogue.
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01.AI
01.AI was founded in March 2023 by Kai-Fu Lee and built the open-source Yi model series before pivoting in early 2025 to commercial applications on top of DeepSeek's models, led by its global product PopAI. Most of its LLM training team moved to a joint lab with Alibaba Cloud in January 2025.
Valuation
$1B
Total Raised
$300M+
Yi-Lightning
Text
Closed
MoE flagship API model (Oct 2024). Ranked #6 on Chatbot Arena at launch — joint 3rd among LLM companies. 40% faster inference than prior Yi models. Final model before 01.AI halted pre-training in early 2025.
Context16K
Input
$0.14/1M tokens
Output
$0.14/1M tokens
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Yi-Coder
Code
Open
Code model (Sep 2024); 1.5B and 9B variants; supports 52 programming languages; 128K context window.
Context128K
Input
Output
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Yi-1.5
Text
Open
Open-source series (May 2024); 6B–34B variants. Improved coding, math, reasoning, and instruction-following over original Yi.
Context—
Input
Output
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Yi-VL-34B
Multimodal
Open
34B vision-language model (early 2024). Open-weight multimodal extension of Yi-34B.
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Output
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Yi-34B
Text
Open
Founding open-source model (Nov 2023). Topped HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard and C-Eval at launch. 200K-token context variant (Yi-34B-200K) also available.
MMLU76.3/100
Context200K
Input
Output
View Docs ↗
Total Raised
$300M+
All rounds
Valuation
$1B
Post-money (approx.)
Last Round
2024
Most recent year
Round Timeline
2023-11
Series A$300M
TencentXiaomiAlibaba CloudSinovation Ventures
2024-08
StrategicUndisclosed
Southeast Asian consortium
AI-powered document workspace targeting global markets. Features chat-with-document, AI presentation generation, and visual understanding. Supports 200+ languages. Primary B2C revenue driver for 01.AI following the company's 2025 pivot away from LLM pre-training.
Watch 01.AI's Kai-Fu Lee on Pacing Frontier AI Development
Kai-Fu Lee Says China Will Win AI Reach Race
Former Google China Chief Kai-Fu Lee: China Will Win the AI Race for Reach
零一万物转向企业AI解决方案，计划2027年赴港上市
Li Kaifu Tells New Stories for Ten Thousand Things: From "Six Little Tigers" to "Money Leopards", All in Enterprise AI Transformation
Exposed Zero One Thousand Launches a New Round of Financing and Plans to Apply for IPO in 2027
AI large model company Zero One Everything plans to be listed in Hong Kong in 2027
AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee’s Startup Targets Hong Kong IPO Next Year
"Without Kai-Fu Lee, what else would there be for Zero One and All Things?" One dared to ask and the other dared to answer.
Li Kaifu abandoned trillion-parameter model training and fully shifted to enterprise AI with an order scale of 1.5 billion yuan.
Kai-Fu Lee wants to build an upgraded version of Palantir, and Zero One Wagon releases “No. 1 AI”
Kai-Fu Lee creates an upgraded version of Palantir, and Zero-One World officially releases “No. 1 AI”
Lingyiwan launches three “No. 1 decision-making AI” products
Zero One Thousand Transformation Sovereign AI and ToB, Kai-Fu Lee said the goal is not OpenAI but Palantir
Kai-Fu Lee: The U.S. and China Are Winning Different AI Races
The AI business behind a chicken: Lingyiwuwu and Zhengda Group want to run through the closed loop of smart agriculture_Industry News
零一万物放弃基座模型预训练，全面转向政企AI定制化服务
Internal speech on the third anniversary of Zero One Thing: Kaifu Lee disclosed the 2027 listing target and added an additional 20 million option incentives
Watch 01.AI's Kai-Fu Lee on OpenClaw, China's AI Advances
01.ai's Kai-Fu Lee: Why China will beat the US in consumer AI
Is it the first year since multi-agent started working? 01Wanshi strives for "organizational intelligence"
2026, the "first year of enterprise multi-agent", is coming, and Zero-One Wanshi releases six key predictions for the industry
Big Model Marathon: Someone sprints, someone falls behind, how do ten thousand things run to the end?
Kai-Fu Lee appoints three new executives: Zero One Thing’s “Top Project” and Large Model Midfield War
Exclusive reveal! AI Six Little Dragons "Zero, One, and All Things" have a new round of executive changes and are fully committed to deepening the ToB strategy
Conversation with Kai-Fu Lee: The explosion of large model applications will bring greater growth in inference chips
How is AI Agent reshaping the industry? Answers are given by industry leaders such as Zero Ten Thousand Things and Friendly Country, Zhilian
Watch 01.AI CEO on China's AI Development
AI agents to replace humans as basic units of a company, Kai-Fu Lee says
前零一万物联创戴宗宏创业：20人团队，能干上百人的AI定制项目
零一万物万智2.0升级：推出企业级Agent，上线重塑企业工作流
零一万物联创、预训练和C端产品负责人谷雪梅离职创业｜智能涌现独家
01.AI Steps Back from Pretraining Frontier Models, Pivots to Enterprise and Sovereign AI
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI stopped pretraining its own frontier LLMs, choosing instead to build tailored solutions on top of open models such as DeepSeek's for enterprise and government clients in finance, gaming, and legal — and increasingly for "sovereign AI" deployments abroad. Lee said the company was preparing a new funding round and a 2027 IPO.
DeepSeek narrows China-US AI gap to three months, 01.AI founder Lee Kai-fu says
零一万物接入DeepSeek等服务企业 李开复称底层模型训练迎来终局
Is Pursuing AGI Too Ambitious for Chinese AI Startups?
Lee Kai-Fu's 01.AI announces it will stop training large language models, with part of its team joining an Alibaba joint lab — raising questions about whether independent AGI pursuit is viable in China.
Chinese start-up 01.AI founder Lee Kai-fu denies asset sale to Alibaba Cloud
李开复又辟谣了 零一万物深夜紧急否认被阿里收购
零一万物决定给大厂让路
AI、中企出海……零一万物李开复、红杉中国浦晓燕等大咖热议 创投行业还有哪些投资机会？
China AI Star Kai-Fu Lee Hits Startup Headwinds in U.S.
Ten thousand things play ToB cards, big model companies pay more attention to how to make money
01.AI's Yi-Coder challenges AI giants
「零一万物」完成数亿美元融资，某国际战投、东南亚财团加盟 | 36氪独家
李开复：国内大模型纷纷降价零一万物推出Yi-Large模型API 性能近似GPT-4 价格仅四分之一丨一手
AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee Aims to Bring China Its ChatGPT Moment
李开复AI公司零一万物发千亿参数模型 预计2024年海外营收过亿｜出海·科技
零一万物发布千亿参数模型 Yi-Large，李开复：中国大模型赶上美国，立志比肩 GPT-5
Chinese AI startup 01.AI looks to raise $200 mln -sources
Tech unicorn 01.AI admits ‘oversight’ in naming AI model built on Meta’s Llama
改名！从Yi改回LLaMA，李开复的零一万物回应开发者质疑
China start-up 01.AI hits US$1 billion value with top-ranked open-source model
李开复再谈大模型，官宣新公司“零一万物”
Kai-Fu Lee
李开复
Founder & Chairman
Reference Table
All Models
Compare models across all 43 Chinese AI companies
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Alibaba
Ovis-VL-Embedding-2B
Open
Compact embedding model init. from Qwen3.5-2B for constrained serving; Apache 2.0
Multimodal
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2026-09-26
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Meituan
LongCat-2.5-Preview
Closed
1.6T/48B-active MoE; adds native image understanding to LongCat's coding/agent strengths; API preview only, no open weights yet, free via OpenCode
Multimodal
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2026-09-25
1M
$0.30/1M tokens
$1.20/1M tokens
AlibabaUniversal text/image/doc/video/audio embedding model (Alibaba ATH MaaS), init. from Qwen2.5-Omni-3B; Apache 2.0, weights open-sourcing soon
Multimodal
—
2026-09-23
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Ant Group6B text-rich design image model, native RGBA output, #1 open-weight model on Artificial Analysis UI/UX leaderboard; MIT license. Flagged by @AdinaYakup — not on tracked company list
Image Gen
2026-09-22
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Tencent
Hy Image 3.5 Preview
Closed
Professional image-gen preview, 30% higher human-eval win rate vs Hy Image 3.0; on par with Seedream 5.0 Pro; API-only, $0.024/image
Image Gen
2026-09-22
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Xiaomi
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Open
309B/15B MoE high-throughput omnimodal variant; MIT license
Multimodal
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2026-09-22
1M
$0.14/1M tokens
$0.28/1M tokens
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Open
102B/42B MoE omnimodal flagship; ties Grok 4.7 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, beats Claude Opus 5 on key benchmarks; MIT license
Multimodal
46/100
2026-09-22
1M
$0.435/1M tokens
$0.87/1M tokens
Alibaba
Qwen-Image-2.1
Open
7B open-weights unified text-to-image + editing model; native transparent (RGBA) output; up to 10 reference images
Image Gen
2026-09-20
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StepFun
Step 5 Preview
Closed
600B MoE (27B active) flagship agent model for coding, finance, knowledge work; weights scheduled to open Oct 15
reasoning
2026-09-20
1M
$1.0/1M tokens
$2.7/1M tokens
Shengshu Technology
Vidu S2
Closed
Real-time interactive digital-character model (resolution up to 720p from 540p in S1) plus real-time video-editing model; also previewing VR spatial video generation; credit-based API pricing (~$0.05/credit)
Video Gen
2026-09-15
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Open
New Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture (552B MoE, 8B/16B active); claimed to beat flagship V4-Pro on performance/cost/speed; replaces V4-Pro in routing from Sept 14
Multimodal
39/100
2026-09-10
1M
$0.15/1M tokens
$0.6/1M tokens
Ant Group
Ling-3.0-flash-VL
Open
124B total/5.5B active MoE native image+video multimodal model (understand→reason→act→verify); MIT licensed; flagged by Adina Yakup, org not in the original company list
Multimodal
25/100
2026-09-09
1M
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ModelBest
MiniCPM5-2B
Open
2.5B-param on-device/edge model for agentic use (PCs, phones, robotics, IoT); trained with RL+OPD merging 16 expert models; beats larger Qwen3.5-4B on average score; Apache 2.0
Text
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2026-09-09
128K
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XiaomiEmbodied world model with sequence variants for modeling continuous interactions; Apache 2.0; caught via Adina Yakup/HF tracking
Embodied
2026-09-08
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Xiaomi
MiMo-X-Flash-Preview
Closed
Smaller/faster sibling of MiMo-X-Pro-Preview in Xiaomi's new agentic MiMo-X series; invite-only preview
Text
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2026-09-08
1M
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Xiaomi
MiMo-X-Pro-Preview
Closed
Next-gen agentic foundation model (~1T total/42B active MoE) for long-horizon task execution and tool use; invite-only preview via MiMo Desktop app; company claims performance near Claude Opus 4.6 in agent scenarios
Text
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2026-09-08
1M
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iFlyTek
Spark X2.5 (293B)
Closed
293B-param (293B-A30B MoE) flagship base model trained entirely on domestic compute; upgraded coding/agent capability; API-only via Xingchen platform, not open-weighted
Text
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2026-09-07
1M
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Ant GroupInteractive image/video-to-video world model small enough to run on a single consumer GPU; caught via Adina Yakup/HF tracking, not the per-company search
Embodied
2026-09-05
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Alibaba
Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B
Open
First open-weight VLM foundation model for autonomous driving; unifies 3D perception, driving VQA, and motion planning on a Qwen3.5-4B backbone; Apache 2.0
Embodied
2026-09-04
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Ant Group
Ling-3.0-flash-Fin
Open
Finance-tuned build of Ling-3.0-flash for investment/agent workflows; 124B total/5.1B active, MIT license; already being quantized for llama.cpp
Text
23/100
2026-08-27
256K
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Tencent
Hy4-preview
Open
770B total/49B active MoE flagship with Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention; beat GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 in Tencent's internal blind eval; pitched as open-source coding/agent frontier
Text
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2026-08-27
1M
$0.83/1M tokens
$2.5/1M tokens
Alibaba
Qwen-3.8-Next
Open
180B-parameter/ 6B parameters activated, A GDN + QSA hybrid architecture, muon optimizer adopted, early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4
Multimodal
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2026-08-26
262K
$0.16/1M tokens
$0.47/1M tokens
Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
GLM-5.3-Flash
Open
Zhipu's first natively multimodal GLM-5 model, 320B total/18B active, KDA+MLA hybrid attention, mHC adopted, tested anonymously as ox-alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter
Multimodal
42/100
2026-08-26
1M
$0.075/1M tokens
$0.25/1M tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
Closed
Experimental multimodal (vision) variant of V4-Flash; positioned near Claude Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks; API-only
Multimodal
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2026-08-21
1M
$0.44/1M tokens
$1.32/1M tokens
SenseTimeOpen-sourced 8B unified any-to-any model with native 4K image generation and improved editing
Multimodal
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2026-08-21
32K
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Alibaba
Qwen3.8-27B
Open
27.78B dense model, Apache 2.0, text/image/video input, agent/coding gains over Qwen3.6-27B
Multimodal
34/100
2026-08-14
262K
$0.40/1M tokens
$3/1M tokens
Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
GLM-5.3
Open
Post-trained on the same 744B GLM-5.2 base; built for agentic coding & cyber defense; open weights/API pricing to follow after safety review
Text
34/100
2026-08-14
1M
$1.40/1M tokens
$4.40/1M tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax-Music3
Open
Open-weight text-to-music model; generates full songs with sung vocals (up to 5 min) from lyrics + structured caption
Multimodal
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2026-08-14
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$0.15 per track
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
Open
GA release of flagship (was in preview since April); 1.6T total/49B active MoE, agentic gains
Text
36/100
2026-08-13
1M
$0.435/1M tokens
$0.87/1M tokens
Alibaba
Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B
Open
Faster/distilled 14B character-animation & replacement model from Tongyi Lab, Apache 2.0
Video Gen
2026-08-07
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Alibaba
Wan 3.0
Closed
Public beta all-in-one video gen/edit model; single continuous shot up to 30s, director-level camera moves, character/scene consistency, and doc/xls/ppt/pdf/md-to-video capability; no open weights (unlike Wan 2.2)
Video Gen
2026-08-06
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Ant Group
Ling-3.0-Tiny
Open
Lightweight hybrid-reasoning MoE, 7.9B total/1.3B active, runs on Apple Silicon & NVIDIA DGX Spark
Text
15/100
2026-08-06
262K
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ByteDance
SeedRealtime
Closed
Native audio-visual full-duplex LLM fusing audio/video/text streams for real-time watch, listen, speak interaction; replaces separate ASR/vision/TTS pipeline; live in Doubao app
Multimodal
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2026-08-05
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Alibaba
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro
Closed
Third-gen image model with ~4.5K-token ultra-long prompts, ~10px fine text rendering, native rendering in 12 languages, dense infographic/document layouts, reference-preserving edits; $0.04/image, API-only
Image Gen
2026-08-05
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$0.003/image
$0.04/image
XiaomiVLA robot foundation model, Qwen3-VL backbone + Diffusion-Transformer (Mixture-of-Transformers); trained on 100,000+ hrs UMI data plus 7,200+ hrs real-robot data; demoed autonomous laundry folding, washer loading, suitcase packing
Embodied
2026-08-05
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Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Max
Open
2.4T MoE, ~95B active/token; text+image+video input; explicit reasoning (low/high/xhigh, xhigh default); flat pricing across full 1M ctx, max output 131K; open weights promised ~mid-Aug 2026 (HF/ModelScope)
Multimodal
45/100
2026-08-03
1M
$2.00/1M tokens
$6.0/1M tokens
RedNote (Xiaohongshu)
dots3-Note Preview
Open
Lightest model in RedNote HiLab's dots3 series — 280B total / 16B active params (MoE), 512K context, natively understands text, images, and audio. An internal harness built on the model scored a certified perfect 42/42 (IMO gold) at IMO 2026.
Text
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2026-08
512K
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ByteDance
Seedance 2.5
Closed
Native single-shot 30s video generation up to 4K, accepts up to 50 multimodal references; launched head-to-head vs MiniMax H3
Video Gen
2026-07-31
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MiniMax
H3 (Hailuo H3)
Closed
Omni-modal video generator (text/image/video/audio input), up to 15s native 2K video with native stereo audio; open weights planned within days
Video Gen
2026-07-31
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DeepSeekPublic-beta API release; retrained V4-Flash beats DeepSeek's own larger V4-Pro-Preview on all 9 published agent/coding benchmarks
Text
34/100
2026-07-31
1M
$0.14/1M tokens
$0.28/1M tokens
SenseTimeLightweight 8B-MoT open unified multimodal model (NEO-Unify architecture); adds native 4K image generation and stronger instruction-following edits vs prior U1
Image Gen
2026-07-31
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Huawei
openPangu-2.0-Pro
Open
505B-param MoE (18B active), open-sourced with weights, inference code & technical report; trained 100% on Huawei Ascend 910B NPUs
Text
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2026-07-31
512K
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Alibaba
Qwen3.7-Flash
Closed
Native vision-language Flash upgrade with stronger object recognition, spatial intelligence, and multimodal agent execution
Multimodal
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2026-07-25
1M
$0.03/1M tokens
$0.13/1M tokens
Ant Group
Ling-3.0-Flash
Open
124B-param MoE, only 5.1B active/token; hybrid-reasoning combines Ling speed + Ring reasoning; outperforms Ant's own 1T Ling-2.6 on 11/12 benchmarks; API-only (no open weights at launch), free on OpenRouter through 2026-08-03
Text
25/100
2026-07-23
256K
$0.021/1M tokens
$0.063/1M tokens
Alibaba
ABot suite
Closed
Amap's full-stack embodied AI upgrade: five models for navigation, manipulation, reasoning, memory, and motion control; claims SOTA on 17 benchmarks
Embodied
2026-07-22
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Tencent
Hy-Embodied-VLA-0.5
Open
Vision-language-action model trained on 10,000+ hours of data, deployable across different robot platforms
Embodied
2026-07-19
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Tencent
Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0
Open
Perception model for robots; best-in-class on 19 of 38 benchmarks at 1/10th the compute of Tencent's prior flagship
Embodied
2026-07-19
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TencentReasoning engine for embodied cognition: joint language-visual reasoning, world-state prediction, subgoal planning; ships with open RxBrain-Bench
Embodied
2026-07-19
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SenseTime
SenseNova-U1 Pro
Closed
Unifies seeing, generating, acting via NEO-unify architecture; native 8K output; debuted at WAIC 2026
Multimodal
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2026-07-19
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Kunlun Tech
Mureka v9.5
Closed
AI music model with O3 reflective-reasoning + MuCo creation agent; pitched as least AI-sounding music generator, unveiled at WAIC
Multimodal
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2026-07-19
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Kunlun Tech
Matrix-Game 3.5
Closed
Interactive world-model upgrade shown at WAIC; 5B model, real-time 720p-class generation at 20FPS with 1-minute memory
Video Gen
2026-07-19
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ModelBest
MiniCPM-RobotTrack
Open
0.9B on-device VLA model for person-tracking, unveiled at WAIC 2026; SOTA on 3 tracking benchmarks, runs 5+ FPS on Unitree Go2 onboard compute
Embodied
2026-07-17
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ModelBest
MiniCPM-RobotManip
Open
1.5B on-device VLA model for robot manipulation, unveiled at WAIC 2026; outperforms larger models like π0.5 and Qwen-VLA per ModelBest
Embodied
2026-07-17
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WeRide
WITT
Closed
Physical AI foundation model built on Atomic Physical Facts; claims 98% lower token cost and 200x data efficiency vs general models (self-reported, unverified)
Embodied
2026-07-17
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Unisound
U2-Med
Closed
First tri-medical LLM spanning healthcare, insurance and pharma; built on U2 foundation model
Multimodal
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2026-07-17
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Moonshot AI
Kimi K3
Open
Flagship model, 2.8T total parameters, strong coding and agent capabilities, open weights by July 27
Multimodal
44/100
2026-07-16
1M
$3.00/1M tokens
$15.00/1M tokens
Ant Group
LingBot-VA 2.0
Open
Industry-first embodied-native causal video-action model; dual-stream mixture-of-transformers architecture, unifies frame prediction and policy execution from scratch
Embodied
2026-07-11
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Ant Group
LingBot-World 2.0
Open
Open-source world model generating hour-long, no-decay 720p/60fps interactive experiences with built-in dynamic agents; up from minutes-level in v1.0
Embodied
2026-07-09
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Alibaba
RynnWorld-4D
Open
DAMO Academy release; generates robot's predicted future as joint RGB + depth + optical-flow stream for manipulation planning, not just 2D video
Embodied
2026-07-08
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Ant Group
LingBot-VLA 2.0
Open
6B open-source cross-embodiment model; trained on 60K hrs real-world data across 20 robot morphologies from 17 manufacturers
Embodied
2026-07-08
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Ant Group
LingBot-Vision
Open
1.1B-param ViT-g/16 self-supervised vision model using masked boundary modelling, trained on ~161M curated images; 4 sizes released under Apache-2.0
Embodied
2026-07-07
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Ant Group
LingBot-Depth 2.0
Closed
Next-gen monocular depth model paired with LingBot-Vision; claims to roughly halve robotic depth-estimation error in challenging scenarios
Embodied
2026-07-07
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Tencent
Hy3 (Hunyuan 3.0)
Open
295B total / 21B active + 3.8B MTP layer, 192 routed experts (top-8) + 1 shared; official release upgrades Apr 2026 preview, deployed across WeChat, Yuanbao, WorkBuddy
Text
25/100
2026-07-07
256K
$0.18/1M tokens
$0.60/1M tokens
Shengshu Technology
Vidu S1
Closed
Real-time interactive video model with voice-controlled avatars; 540p up to 42fps; runs on consumer-grade GPUs instead of server clusters
Video Gen
2026-07-03
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
GLM-5.2
Open
753B params; Rolled out to all GLM Coding Plan tiers (Lite/Pro/Max/Team); standalone API + MIT open weights
Text
51/100
2026-06-01
1M
$1.40/1M tokens
$4.40/1M tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax-M3
Open
428B params (23B active); 1-million-token context window; novel attention mechanism called MSA; native multimodality
Multimodal
29/100
2026-06
1M
$0.30/1M tokens
$1.20/1M tokens
Moonshot AI
Kimi-K2.7-Code
Open
1T total params / 32B active, 384 experts, ~30% lower reasoning-token usage vs K2.6
Code
26/100
2026-06
256K
$0.95/1M tokens
$4.00/1M tokens
StepFun
Step 3.7 Flash
Open
198B total / 11B active params; 1.8B ViT vision encoder; 3 reasoning levels (low/med/high); ~400 TPS; Apache 2.0; supports NVIDIA NIM on-prem deployment
Multimodal
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2026-06
256K
$0.2/1M tokens
$1.15/1M tokens
Meituan
LongCat-2.0
Open
1.6T para + MoE; trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese chips; next-gen flagship
Text
19/100
2026-06
1M
$0.75/1M tokens
$2.95/1M tokens
XPeng
VLA 2.0
Closed
Second-generation vision-language-action world model — deliberative reasoning, controllable generation, and long-horizon forecasting. Runs on 4 self-developed Turing AI chips (~3,000 TOPS effective) in the Robotaxi platform.
Embodied
2026-06
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Alibaba
Qwen3.7-Max
Closed
Flagship closed-source reasoning model. Ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (29/100) out of 218 models at release. 1M token context window. Text-only (no multimodal). Architecture reportedly dual-72B. Extended thinking / chain-of-thought mode. Released May 19, 2026.
Text
29/100
2026-05
1M
$2.50/1M tokens
$7.50/1M tokens
Baidu
ERNIE 5.1
Closed
MoE successor to ERNIE 5.0. ~⅓ total params, ~½ active params, 6% of pre-training cost. AIME 2026: 99.6% with tool use (#2 globally). Arena Search: 1,223 (#4 global, #1 China). Released May 9, 2026.
Text
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2026-05
128K
$0.59/1M tokens
$2.65/1M tokens
Baichuan AI
Baichuan-M4
Closed
Medical AI flagship (May 2026). World #1 on HealthBench, HealthBench Hard & HealthBench Professional. Hallucination rate 3.3% — industry low via factuality-aware RL. Surpasses GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, DeepSeek-V4-Pro. Powers 百小医 AI family doctor.
Text
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2026-05
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ModelBest
MiniCPM-V 4.6
Open
1.3B multimodal model (SigLip2 + Qwen3.5-0.8B). 260K token context. Runs on consumer phones (iOS/Android/HarmonyOS). Launched May 2026.
Multimodal
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2026-05
260K
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ModelBest
MiniCPM5-1B
Open
1B language model with 128K token context. SOTA on-device LLM at its size class. Apache 2.0.
Text
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2026-05
128K
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
GLM-5.1
Open
754B flagship — top scores on AIME 2026 (95.3) and GPQA-Diamond (86.2); strong agentic and coding ability
Text
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2026-04
200K
$0.98/1M tokens
$3.08/1M tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.7
Open
229B MoE; self-evolving agent — 30% perf gain over 100+ rounds; agent teams, complex skills, 24/7 background agents
Agent
2026-04
1M tokens
$0.28/1M tokens
$1.20/1M tokens
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.6
Open
1T MoE (32B active), 256K ctx; native multimodal agentic — top SWE-Bench (80.2) and AIME 2026 (96.4)
Multimodal
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2026-04
256K
$0.60/1M tokens
$2.50/1M tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Open
Flagship MoE: 1.6T total / 49B active params, 1M context, FP4+FP8 precision, built-in Think/Non-Think reasoning modes. Codeforces rating 3206.
Text
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2026-04
1M
$0.435/1M tokens
$0.87/1M tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Open
Efficient MoE: 284B total / 13B active params, 1M context. Same architecture as V4-Pro at far lower compute cost. Codeforces 2816.
Text
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2026-04
1M
$0.14/1M tokens
$0.28/1M tokens
Baidu
ERNIE-Image
Open
8B single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT). Best text rendering in open source (LongTextBench: 0.9733). Up to 4K output. Apache 2.0. Released Apr 15, 2026.
Image Gen
2026-04
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$0.03/image
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Ant Group
Ring-2.6-1T
Open
1T total params, ~63B active per token; adaptive reasoning via high / xhigh modes; up to 66K output tokens; open weights (MIT); released May 8 2026; free tier available on OpenRouter
Text
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2026-04
262K
$0.075/1M tokens
$0.625/1M tokens
Ant Group
Ling-2.6-1T
Open
1T total params, ~63B active per token; fast thinking approach cuts token cost to ~1/4 of comparable models; open weights (MIT); released Apr 23 2026; free tier available on OpenRouter via Novita AI
Text
17/100
2026-04
262K
$0.075/1M tokens
$0.625/1M tokens
Ant Group
Ling-2.6-flash
Open
Efficient sparse MoE: 104B total / 7.4B active, hybrid linear attention. 340 tokens/s on 4× H20. Strong agent and tool-use performance.
Text
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2026-04
262K
$0.10/1M tokens
$0.30/1M tokens
Tencent
Hy3-preview
Closed
295B MoE (21B active); reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. Via Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Released Apr 23, 2026.
Text
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2026-04
256K
¥1.2/1M tokens
¥4.0/1M tokens
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
Open
1.02T MoE, 42B active; KV-cache reduced ~7×; latest generation
Text
26/100
2026-04
1M
$0.0036/1M tokens
$0.087/1M tokens
AGIBot
Genie Operator-2 (GO-2)
Closed
AGIBot's new-generation embodied foundation model, powering autonomous manipulation and locomotion across its AGIBOT A2 and X2 robot lines.
Embodied
2026-04
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Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Pro
Closed
1T+ MoE, 42B active; hybrid attention; 1M token context
Text
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2026-03
1M
$0.0036/1M tokens
$0.087/1M tokens
Unitree Robotics
UnifoLM-VLA-0
Open
Vision-Language-Action model enabling the G1 humanoid to autonomously perform household tasks from natural language commands. Runs onboard the robot. Open-sourced March 2026 — Unitree's first AI model release.
Embodied
2026-03
N/A
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Kunlun Tech
SkyReels V4
Closed
Audio-visual creation model (Mar 2026). Dual-stream architecture; #1 globally on Text-to-Video (With Audio) and Image-to-Video (With Audio) tracks at release. Generates clips up to 3 minutes.
Video Gen
2026-03
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Kunlun Tech
Mureka V9
Closed
Music generation model (Mar 2026). Paragraph-level text control; enhanced mixing quality, vocal expression, and style richness.
Audio
2026-03
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Kunlun Tech
Matrix-Game 3.0
Closed
Physics-simulation interactive world model (Mar 2026). 5B params; 720P @ 40FPS; covers 1,000+ scenarios with Unreal Engine data. Industrial-grade real-time interactivity.
Text
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2026-03
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ByteDance
Seed2.0 Pro
Closed
ByteDance's flagship multimodal model. Understands text, image, and video. Ranks #3 globally on LMSYS Vision Arena and #6 on overall text arena. AIME 2025: 98.3, SWE-bench: 76.5%.
Multimodal
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2026-02
272K
$0.47/1M tokens
$2.37/1M tokens
ByteDance
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Closed
Unified multimodal image generation with chain-of-thought visual reasoning, real-time web search, and native editing. Supports up to 14 reference images. Up to 4K output at 2048×2048.
Image Gen
2026-02
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$0.026/image
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ByteDance
Seedance 2.0
Closed
Unified audio-video joint generation model. Accepts text, image, video, and audio inputs; outputs native 2K video (up to 15s) with synchronized audio. 30% faster than Seedance 1.5 Pro.
Video Gen
2026-02
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Alibaba
Qwen3.5
Open
Unified vision-language MoE family. Flagship: 35B-A3B (35B total / 3B active) and 397B-A17B. Thinking mode on by default. Supports image, video, text input. 201 languages. Apache 2.0.
Multimodal
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2026-02
262K (1M w/ YaRN)
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Alibaba
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Open
80B total / 3B active MoE coding agent. Excels at long-horizon agentic tasks, tool use, and IDE integration (Claude Code, Cline, Qwen Code). No thinking mode.
Code
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2026-02
256K
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
GLM-5
Open
754B MoE (40B active); 28.5T token pre-training; top-tier SWE-bench score of 77.8
Text
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2026-02
200K
$1.40/1M tokens
$4.40/1M tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.5
Open
229B; SOTA SWE-Bench (80.2); 80% of MiniMax's own code generated by this model; M2.5-Lightning at 100 tok/s
Agent
2026-02
1M tokens
$0.30–$1.00/hr
$0.30–$1.00/hr
Baidu
ERNIE 5.0
Closed
2.4 trillion parameter unified multimodal (text + image + video + audio) in a single autoregressive framework. LMArena Text: 1,460 (#1 China, #8 global); Vision: 1,226 (#1 China, #8 global). Released Feb 6, 2026.
Multimodal
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2026-02
128K
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Ant Group
LingBot-VLA
Open
Open-source VLA foundation model trained on ~20,000 hours of real-world dual-arm robot data across 9 embodiments
Embodied
2026-02
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Ant Group
Ring-2.5-1T
Open
World's first open-source 1T-parameter thinking model. Gold medal level at IMO 2025 (35/42 pts) and CMO 2025 (105/126). 3× throughput for sequences >32K.
Text
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2026-02
256K
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Ant Group
Ming-flash-omni-2.0
Open
Any-to-any omni model: accepts image, text, video, and audio; outputs image, text, and audio. 100B total / 6B active MoE. Supports zero-shot voice cloning and image generation/editing.
Multimodal
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2026-02
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Ant Group
LLaDA-2.1-flash
Open
Novel diffusion-based language model — not autoregressive. 103B params. Generates text by iterative token editing rather than left-to-right decoding. 102K monthly downloads.
Multimodal
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2026-02
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Baichuan AI
Baichuan-M3
Open
235B medical model (Feb 2026) built on Qwen3 architecture. Former world #1 on HealthBench. Hallucination rate 3.5%. Outperforms human doctors in diagnostic accuracy. 48GB VRAM with W4 quantization.
Text
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2026-02
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JD.com
JoyAI-LLM-Flash
Open
Open-sourced lightweight model — 4.8B total / 3B active params, pretrained on 20T text tokens. Released on HuggingFace as part of JD's open-source push.
Text
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2026-02
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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.5
Open
1T MoE (32B active); trained on 15T vision+text tokens; thinking & instant modes; agent swarm support
Multimodal
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2026-01
256K
$0.40/1M tokens
$1.90/1M tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-OCR-2
Open
3B visual OCR model with document-to-markdown conversion, layout-aware grounding, and dynamic resolution. 1.66M monthly downloads.
Multimodal
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2026-01
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Tencent
HunyuanImage 3.0
Open
80B MoE (13B active); text-to-image and image-to-image with reasoning. Open weight on HuggingFace. Released Jan 26, 2026.
Image Gen
2026-01
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Meituan
LongCat-Flash-Lite
Open
68.5B MoE, 2.9–4.5B active; fast and efficient
Text
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2026-01
256K
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AIsphere
PixVerse R1
Closed
Real-time world model; 1080p, <15s latency, physics-aware, infinite temporal continuity
Video Gen
2026-01
N/A
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SenseTime
SenseNova V6.5 Omni
Closed
Real-time multimodal streaming model. Powers SenseChat's live audio/video interaction. Successor to V6 Pro.
Multimodal
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2026-01
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LimX Dynamics
FluxVLA Engine
Closed
LimX's Vision-Language-Action embodied-AI engine powering autonomous manipulation and locomotion on its humanoid and legged robots.
Embodied
2026
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2
Open
685B MoE with DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA). V3.2-Speciale variant won gold at 2025 IMO and IOI. 4.16M monthly downloads on HuggingFace.
Text
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2025-12
128K
$0.252/1M tokens
$0.378/1M tokens
Kuaishou
Kling I2V 2.0
Closed
Image-to-video with industry-leading subject preservation
Multimodal
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2025-12
N/A
$0.16/video (5s)
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Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Flash
Open
309B MoE, 15B active; trained on 27T tokens; open-source release
Text
22/100
2025-12
N/A
$0.01/1M tokens
$0.30/1M tokens
AIsphere
PixVerse V5.5
Closed
Text/image-to-video; HD output, multiple aspect ratios, character consistency
Video Gen
2025-12
N/A
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Tencent
Hunyuan3D 3.0
Closed
3D asset generation from text, image, or sketch input
3D Gen
2025-11
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iFlyTek
Spark X1.5
Closed
MoE reasoning model (29.3B total / 3B active parameters). Supports 130+ languages. Runs on a single Huawei Ascend server. Launched Nov 2025.
Text
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2025-11
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MiniMax
MiniMax-M2
Open
230B MoE (10B active); interleaved thinking; open-source under Modified MIT; free API available
Agent
2025-10
1M tokens
—
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Infinigence AI
Megrez2-3x7B-A3B
Open
MoE edge model: 3×7B experts, 3B active parameters. Open-weight, Apache 2.0.
Text
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2025-09
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Alibaba
Qwen-Image
Open
Image generation and editing foundation model. Exceptional Chinese + English text rendering. Supports style transfer, object insertion/removal, layered editing, and depth/edge estimation. Released Aug 2025.
Image Gen
2025-08
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ModelBest
MiniCPM-V 4.5
Open
8B multimodal model (Qwen3-8B + SigLIP2). Apache 2.0.
Multimodal
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2025-08
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Moonshot AI
Kimi k2
Open
Agentic model with tool use, web browsing, and code execution
Text
—
2025-07
128K
$0.57/1M tokens
$2.30/1M tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax-M1
Open
First open-weight large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model; test-time compute scaling
Text
—
2025-06
1M tokens
$0.80/1M tokens
$2.20/1M tokens
MiniMax
Hailuo-02
Open
Physics-aware video generation; top-3 globally on VBench
Video Gen
2025-06
N/A
$0.06/video (5s)
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Shengshu Technology
Vidu Q3
Closed
World's first storytelling-focused video model. Up to 16 sec, 1080p 24fps, native audio sync. Multilingual. Pro and Turbo variants. MCP integration.
Video Gen
2025-06
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~$0.07/sec
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Huawei
Pangu Ultra MoE (5.5)
Closed
718B-parameter MoE model (256 experts), trained on the full-stack hardware and software of Huawei Cloud's AI Cloud Service (CloudMatrix 384 supernodes). Part of the Pangu Models 5.5 family, which per Huawei Cloud's own release delivers upgrades across five capabilities: natural language processing, computer vision, multimodal, prediction, and scientific computing.
Text
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2025-06
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RedNote (Xiaohongshu)
dots.llm1
Open
RedNote's first open-source LLM — 142B total / 14B active params (MoE), pretrained on 11.2T high-quality tokens with no synthetic data. Performance comparable to Alibaba's Qwen2.5-72B.
Text
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2025-06
32K
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-0528
Open
Latest R1 update: 685B, adds system prompt support, deeper reasoning (23K avg tokens on AIME vs 12K prior). Distilled 8B version achieves 86% on AIME 2024.
Text
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2025-05
128K
$0.50/1M tokens
$2.15/1M tokens
Kuaishou
Kling 2.0
Closed
4K-capable video generation; advanced camera controls and scene coherence
Video Gen
2025-04
N/A
$0.16/video (5s)
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Kuaishou
Kolors 2.0
Open
Upgraded photorealistic image model; open-source available
Image Gen
2025-04
N/A
$0.004/image
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SenseTime
SenseNova V6 Pro
Closed
620B MoE hybrid. Real-time audio/video streaming. Ranked #1 in China in multimodal reasoning at launch. Lowest reasoning cost in industry at launch (Apr 2025).
Multimodal
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2025-04
256K
¥2.8/1M tokens
¥8.4/1M tokens
Kunlun Tech
Skywork-OR1-32B
Open
Open-source math and coding reasoning model (Apr 2025). 32B params; rivals DeepSeek-R1 on competitive programming benchmarks. 7B variant also available.
Text
—
2025-04
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Qihoo 360
360Zhinao3-7B
Open
Latest open-weight 360Zhinao generation (Base / Instruct / O1.5 long chain-of-thought reasoning variant). Free for commercial use.
Text
—
2025-04
32K
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Baidu
ERNIE X1
Closed
Baidu's first dedicated reasoning model with extended chain-of-thought
Text
—
2025-03
128K
$0.28/1M tokens
$1.10/1M tokens
Baidu
ERNIE 4.5
Closed
Improved multimodal and reasoning; best ERNIE for Chinese enterprise tasks. The flagship ERNIE 4.5 model is closed-source, though several variants in the ERNIE 4.5 family are openly available on HuggingFace.
Multimodal
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2025-03
128K
$0.55/1M tokens
$2.20/1M tokens
StepFun
Step-3
Closed
StepFun's 2025 flagship; 1M token context and native reasoning mode
Text
—
2025-01
1M
$0.57/1M tokens
$1.42/1M tokens
Baichuan AI
Baichuan-M2
Open
32B medical reasoning model (2025) built on Qwen2.5-32B with innovative Large Verifier System for real-world clinical reasoning.
Text
—
2025-01
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ModelBest
MiniCPM-o 2.6
Open
8B any-to-any model (text + vision + speech). Surpasses GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro on single-image understanding benchmarks. Launched Jan 2025.
Multimodal
—
2025-01
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Kuaishou
Kling 1.6 Pro
Closed
Previous flagship; supports 1080p, 5-10s clips, camera controls
Video Gen
2024-12
N/A
$0.14/video (5s)
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Infinigence AI
Megrez-3B-Omni
Open
3B omni model processing text, vision, and audio. Outperforms LLaVA-NeXT-Yi-34B on vision benchmarks. Optimised for on-device and edge deployment.
Multimodal
—
2024-12
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Kunlun Tech
Skywork-o1
Open
Reasoning model (Nov 2024) — among China's first o1-style models with chain-of-thought Chinese logical reasoning. Open-source 8B variant (Llama 3.1 base) plus proprietary advanced version.
Text
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2024-11
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Qihoo 360
360Zhinao2-7B
Open
Second-generation 360Zhinao with Base and Chat variants at 4K / 32K / 360K context lengths.
Text
—
2024-11
360K
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Baichuan AI
Baichuan4-Turbo
Closed
Enterprise flagship general LLM (late 2024). 10%+ usability gain vs prior generation; priced at ~80% of GPT-4o. Supports multimodal input.
Text
—
2024-10
192K
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Baichuan AI
Baichuan4-Air
Closed
MoE variant (PRI architecture) of Baichuan4. High performance at low cost for API deployments.
Text
—
2024-10
192K
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01.AI
Yi-Lightning
Closed
MoE flagship API model (Oct 2024). Ranked #6 on Chatbot Arena at launch — joint 3rd among LLM companies. 40% faster inference than prior Yi models. Final model before 01.AI halted pre-training in early 2025.
Text
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2024-10
16K
$0.14/1M tokens
$0.14/1M tokens
01.AI
Yi-Coder
Open
Code model (Sep 2024); 1.5B and 9B variants; supports 52 programming languages; 128K context window.
Code
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2024-09
128K
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iFlyTek
Spark 4.0
Closed
Flagship LLM (Aug 2024). Claims comparable performance to GPT-4 Turbo on Chinese language benchmarks.
Text
—
2024-08
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StepFun
Step-2
Closed
Very long context window; strong document understanding
Text
—
2024-07
256K
¥0.038/1K tokens
¥0.12/1K tokens
StepFun
Step-1X-Image
Closed
High-resolution image generation model
Image Gen
2024-07
N/A
¥0.04/image
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01.AI
Yi-1.5
Open
Open-source series (May 2024); 6B–34B variants. Improved coding, math, reasoning, and instruction-following over original Yi.
Text
—
2024-05
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Qihoo 360
360Zhinao-Search
Open
Retrieval + 1.8B reranking models that ranked #1 in the Retrieval and Reranking tasks of the C-MTEB leaderboard.
Embedding
2024-05
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01.AI
Yi-VL-34B
Open
34B vision-language model (early 2024). Open-weight multimodal extension of Yi-34B.
Multimodal
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2024-01
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01.AI
Yi-34B
Open
Founding open-source model (Nov 2023). Topped HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard and C-Eval at launch. 200K-token context variant (Yi-34B-200K) also available.
Text
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2023-11
200K
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Kunlun Tech
Skywork-13B
Open
Founding open-source bilingual LLM (Oct 2023). 13B params; pretrained on 3.2T tokens. Led same-scale models on CEVAL, CMMLU, and MMLU at launch.
Text
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2023-10
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Baichuan AI
Baichuan2
Open
Open-source bilingual LLM series (Sep 2023); 7B and 13B variants; trained on 2.6T tokens. Available on Hugging Face under permissive license.
Text
—
2023-09
4K
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JD.com
ChatRhino (言犀)
Closed
JD's 100B-parameter industry-focused LLM, blending 70% general data with 30% native supply-chain intelligence data for retail, logistics, finance, healthcare, and city-services applications.
Text
—
2023-07
32K
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Meituan
LongCat-Image
Open
Image generation model, ~6B params; data-quality focused; released Dec 2025
Image Gen
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N/A
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MeituanChain-of-thought reasoning variant of LongCat-Flash
Text
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Meituan
LongCat-Flash-Chat
Open
560B MoE, 27B active; open-source; 500K free tokens/day
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WeRide
WeRide GENESIS
Closed
Generative Engineered Neural Environment for Simulated Intelligence in Self-driving. WeRide's proprietary general-purpose simulation platform combining physical AI with generative AI. Rapidly builds photorealistic simulated cities in minutes, generates diverse edge-case scenarios from billions of km of real-world data, and models realistic pedestrian and driver behavior — all at centimeter-level fidelity. Supports L2++ through L4 AV development and validation via four modules: AI Scenarios, AI Agents, AI Metrics, and AI Diagnosis.
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Pony.ai
PonyWorld 2.0
Closed
Second-generation world model underpinning the Virtual Driver L4 autonomous driving platform. Introduces an Intention layer — a structured representation of decision-making that enables the system to evaluate its own driving decisions, identify accuracy gaps across scenarios, and direct targeted data collection rather than broad undirected improvement. Direct sensor-to-action architecture with no language models in the inference pipeline; runs on 1016 TOPS across three NVIDIA DRIVE Orin-X SoCs with redundant failover.
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Unisound
UniGPT (Shanhai 山海)
Closed
60B+ parameter general large model (v5.0); underpins all Unisound vertical products. Medical, enterprise, and consumer deployments.
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Unisound
U2-ASR 2.5
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First LLM-based semantic ASR model for Chinese. Covers 100+ dialects across 7 dialect systems. >90% accuracy. Available via Token Hub API.
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Unisound
U2-TTS / U2-TTS-Clone
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Text-to-speech and voice cloning with full-duplex millisecond response. Available via Token Hub API.
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U1-OCR
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Industrial-grade document intelligence model for OCR and document understanding. Launched February 2026.
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Funding & Markets
Private funding rounds and public market data for China's leading AI companies
43
Companies tracked
23 public · 20 private
23 public · 20 private
~$34.9B
AI startup funding
12 AI-native cos
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Valuation, total funding & AI ARR, side-by-side
Most Active Investors
1
Tencent
16
2
HongShan Capital
12
3
Alibaba
12
4
IDG Capital
9
5
Shunwei Capital
7
Derived live from 170 rounds
ByteDance
PRIVATE
Valuation$600B
Total Raised~$42.21B+
AI ARR$4B
Alibaba
BABA / 9988.HK
Market Cap—
Cloud Revenue (FY25)¥158B
AI ARR¥10B
Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
2513.HK
Market Cap—
Total Raised$10.79B
AI ARR$1.6B
MiniMax
0100.HK
Market Cap—
Total Raised$2.17B
AI ARR$800M
Moonshot AI
PRIVATE
Valuation$35B
Total Raised~$8.2B+
AI ARR$1B
DeepSeek
PRIVATE
Valuation$50B
Total Raised$7.35B
AI ARR$1B
StepFun
PRIVATE
Valuation$10B
Total Raised$3.23B+
Last Round2026
Baidu
BIDU / 9888.HK
Market Cap—
ExchangeNASDAQ: BIDU · HKEX: 9888
Founded2000
Ant Group
PRIVATE
Valuation$79B
Total Raised$20.53B+
Last Round2020
Tencent
0700.HK
Market Cap—
Revenue (FY25)¥751.8B
Founded1998
Kuaishou
1024.HK
Market Cap—
ExchangeHKEX: 1024
Kling ARR$500M
Xiaomi
1810.HK
Market Cap—
Revenue (FY25)¥457.3B
Founded2010
Meituan
3690.HK
Market Cap—
Revenue (FY25)¥364.9B
Founded2010
AIsphere
PRIVATE
Valuation$2B
Total Raised~$669M+
Last Round2026
Unitree Robotics
688836.SS
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue¥1.71B
Founded2016
SenseTime
0020.HK
Market Cap—
Revenue (FY25)¥5.01B
Founded2014
Baichuan AI
PRIVATE
Valuation$2.7B
Total Raised$1.04B
Last Round2024
01.AI
PRIVATE
Valuation$1B
Total Raised$300M+
Last Round2024
Kunlun Tech
300418.SZ
Market Cap—
Revenue (FY25)¥8.2B
Founded2008
Evoken
PRIVATE
Valuation$2B
Total Raised$430M+
Last Round2026
iFlyTek
002230.SZ
Market Cap~¥190B
FY2025 Revenue¥27.1B
Founded1999
Infinigence AI
PRIVATE
ValuationUndisclosed
Total Raised~$251M+
Last Round2026
Enflame Technology
688801.SS
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue¥990.2M
Founded2018
SiliconFlow
PRIVATE
Valuation¥7.7B
Total Raised$419M
Revenue¥55.3M
Cambricon
688256.SS
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue¥6.5B
Founded2016
ModelBest
PRIVATE
Valuation¥20B
Total RaisedUndisclosed
Last Round2026
Moore Threads
— (SSE)
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue¥1.505B
Founded2020
WeRide
WRD / 0800.HK
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue~$93.6M
Founded2017
Pony.ai
PONY / 2026.HK
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue$90.0M
Founded2016
Shengshu Technology
PRIVATE
ValuationUndisclosed
Total Raised~$440M
Last Round2026
DiDi Autonomous Driving
PRIVATE
ValuationUndisclosed
Total Raised$1.39B+
Last Round2025
Unisound
9678.HK
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue¥1.21B
Founded2012
Momenta
06880.HK
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue¥2.4B
Founded2016
Qihoo 360
601360.SS
Market Cap~$10.1B
Market Cap~$10.1B
Founded2005
CXMT
688825.SS
Market Cap—
IPO Proceeds~$8.6B
Founded2016
Manus (Butterfly Effect)
PRIVATE
Valuation~$500M
Total Raised$75M
Last Round2025
LimX Dynamics
PRIVATE
Valuation¥15B
Total Raised~$400M+
Last Round2026
XPeng
XPEV / 9868.HK
Market Cap—
ExchangeNYSE: XPEV · HKEX: 9868
Founded2014
AGIBot
PRIVATE
Valuation~$1.5B+
Total Raised$84M+
Last Round2025
Huawei
PRIVATE
FY2025 Revenue¥880.9B
R&D Investment¥192.3B
Founded1987
Pragmatik Labs
PRIVATE
Valuation$2B
Total Raised$220M
Last Round2026
RedNote (Xiaohongshu)
PRIVATE
Valuation~$70B
Total Raised~$917M+
Last Round2026
JD.com
JD / 9618.HK
Market Cap—
FY2025 Revenue¥1,309.1B
Founded2004
Data methodology: Funding data on this page is compiled from publicly available sources — company press releases, regulatory filings, and media reports — and fact-checked by Tony Peng with the assistance of AI. Where a round appears in both a company disclosure and press report, company disclosure takes precedence. All figures may be approximate.
Shipped Products
Applications
AI products from China's leading companies, by category
BYTEDANCE
ByteDance rolled out the consumer version of its Doubao Phone Assistant this week (Sept 14): on-screen Q&A, local search across photos/messages/notes, voice activation, a dedicated AI hardware key, and a beta operate phone mode that lets the agent tap through third-party apps via a new SAEP protocol. It debuted on ZTE's nubia NaviX Ultra, the second-generation Doubao Phone, which went on sale Sept 16 starting at RMB 5,999.
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BYTEDANCE
ByteDance launched Doubao Work, a standalone workplace AI agent app integrated with Feishu that autonomously plans and executes document, spreadsheet and multi-step office workflows; the launch folds ByteDance's Trae and Coze teams into Doubao to compete directly with Tencent's WorkBuddy.
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BYTEDANCE
ByteDance shipped SeedRealtime, a full-duplex audio-video AI, as a new watch, listen, speak real-time video-call feature inside the Doubao app (200M+ users), live for free starting Aug 5, 2026.
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BYTEDANCE
ByteDance's flagship AI assistant for chat, writing, image generation, coding, and voice. China's most-used AI app, deeply integrated with ByteDance's content platforms and powered by the Doubao/Seed model family.
344.9MMAU
Quest Mobile
BYTEDANCE
No-code AI agent builder for creating, deploying, and publishing bots and workflows. Supports plugins, long-term memory, scheduled tasks, and multi-platform publishing including WeChat and Feishu.
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BYTEDANCE
ByteDance's AI creative studio for image and video generation. Powered by Seaweed diffusion models from the Seed team. Supports text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video with advanced style control. Tightly integrated with CapCut for seamless creative workflows.
13.5MMAU
Quest Mobile
ALIBABA
Alibaba launched Qwen Intelligence, a full-stack agentic AI solution for smartphone makers, entering public beta Sept 22, 2026 with three ready-to-use agents (Mobile Planner, Mobile-Use, Mobile Creative Agent) and an open evaluation benchmark; HONOR is the first hardware partner, integrating it into the Magic9 series and an upcoming HONOR Robot Phone.
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ALIBABA
Alibaba opened the international edition of QwenWork, its all-in-one workplace AI agent platform, to public beta outside China on Aug 26, extending the China beta launched earlier in August to global users via web and desktop client.
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ALIBABA
Alibaba opened the Qwen platform to outside developers on Aug 10, letting third parties build custom AI agents accessible inside the Qwen app across phones, PCs and AI glasses; launch partners include SF Express, Ziroom and Midea across 10+ sectors.
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ALIBABA
Alibaba merged three existing tools (QoderWork, MuleRun, Wukong) into QwenWork, a unified enterprise workplace AI agent platform that opened public beta on Aug 2-3, 2026 with web and standalone PC clients; DingTalk integration is coming soon.
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ALIBABA
Alibaba's agentic coding platform with 5M+ global users since its August 2025 launch. Offers Agent Mode for conversational pair programming and Quest Mode for fully autonomous end-to-end coding — users outline specs and Qoder handles planning, implementation, and testing. Powered by Qwen-Coder-Qoder, a model custom-trained for agentic software development (60.5% SWE-bench task resolution).
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ALIBABA
AI-native cloud platform launched by Alibaba Cloud at its inaugural international Qwen Conference in Singapore, designed to serve both human users and AI agents for building and deploying enterprise AI applications and autonomous agents; launched alongside the Qwen3.7-Max model, a JVS Agent Suite, and a Skills portal that converts capabilities across 60+ Alibaba cloud products into MCP-compatible, agent-usable formats
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ALIBABA
Alibaba's flagship AI assistant integrated across Taobao, DingTalk, and Tmall. Supports text, image, and voice interactions powered by the Qwen model family.
165.6MMAU
Quest Mobile
ALIBABA
Alibaba's enterprise collaboration platform with deep Qwen integration. AI features include real-time meeting summaries, document drafting, workflow automation, smart search across organizational knowledge, and an embedded AI assistant for 700M+ registered users.
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ALIBABA
Alibaba's open-source model hub — China's equivalent of Hugging Face — hosting 5,000+ models from leading labs. Supports one-click fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Co-developed with DAMO Academy.
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ZHIPU AI (Z.AI)
Free desktop Agentic Development Environment built around Z.ai's GLM-5.2 model, launched for macOS/Windows/Linux to challenge Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot; supports bring-your-own-key configs and includes launch promos (50% quota boost, 5M free tokens).
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ZHIPU AI (Z.AI)
Zhipu AI's flagship consumer assistant powered by GLM-5. Supports multimodal input (text, image, file), AI drawing via CogView, video generation via CogVideo, web search, and plugin extensions. Available on web and mobile.
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ZHIPU AI (Z.AI)
Agentic AI system that autonomously operates Android device UIs to complete real-world tasks — booking, browsing, form-filling — without human intervention. Built on GLM and phone-use reinforcement learning.
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ZHIPU AI (Z.AI)
Zhipu's open-source image and video generation model family. CogView handles text-to-image; CogVideoX handles high-quality text-to-video and image-to-video. Both released under Apache 2.0.
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MINIMAX
MiniMax's globally popular AI companionship app where users create, customize, and chat with AI personas. Consistently top-grossing on the US App Store in entertainment. Powered by MiniMax's voice and character models.
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MINIMAX
MiniMax's consumer AI video generation platform. Supports text-to-video and image-to-video with industry-leading motion realism, physics simulation, and 1080p output. Powered by the MiniMax Video model family.
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MINIMAX
MiniMax's general-purpose AI chat assistant for the Chinese market. Features a 1-million token context window for deep document and long-text analysis, multimodal input, and reasoning capabilities powered by M2 and M2.5.
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MOONSHOT AI
On Sept 23, 2026 Moonshot AI shipped Kimi Code v2.1.0, adding a fullscreen terminal UI mode with mouse-clickable folded code blocks and a jump-to-bottom control for its terminal coding-agent tool.
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MOONSHOT AI
Downloadable desktop AI agent for macOS and Windows built on Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 model; runs an Agent Swarm of up to 300 parallel sub-agents, uses a WebBridge browser extension to operate a user's logged-in web sessions, and can edit local files, run Python, and compile PPT/Excel reports without sending data to the cloud. Launched June 12, 2026.
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MOONSHOT AI
Moonshot AI's flagship AI assistant, known for industry-leading long-context capabilities. Supports documents up to 2M tokens, deep research via Kimi Explore (extended thinking + web search), and autonomous task execution via Kimi Agent powered by K2. Available on web, iOS, and Android.
8.3MMAU
Quest Mobile
DEEPSEEK
DeepSeek open-sourced Harness v0.1 alongside its V4-Pro release (week of Aug 13), a plugin-first open-source coding agent framework positioned as a free alternative to Claude Code; it passed 95,000+ GitHub stars within two days.
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DEEPSEEK
Consumer AI chat powered by V3/R1. Became globally viral in Jan 2025 with free reasoning access.
127.1MMAU
Quest Mobile
DEEPSEEK
OpenAI-compatible API offering V3 and R1 at industry-lowest prices ($0.27/1M input tokens for V3). Drop-in replacement for OpenAI with minimal code changes. Supports prefix caching, function calling, and structured output.
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STEPFUN
StepFun's consumer AI assistant with 1M-token long-context capability. Supports deep document analysis, multimodal input, web search, and reasoning mode via Step-3. Also serves as the gateway to Step Video for integrated creative workflows.
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STEPFUN
AI video generation embedded in the Yuewen ecosystem. Supports text-to-video with cinematic quality and consistent scene understanding. Exposed via StepFun's open platform API for enterprise and developer use.
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BAIDU
Baidu's no-code AI app development platform — describe what you want and Miaoda builds a working app in minutes. Built-in agents handle planning, development, testing, and design collaboratively. Generated 400K+ apps by November 2025; upgraded to Miaoda 2.0 at Baidu Create 2026. International version available at medo.dev.
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BAIDU
Baidu's flagship consumer AI assistant, deeply integrated with Baidu Search for real-time grounded responses. Supports text, image generation, document analysis, and plugins.
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BAIDU
Baidu's fully driverless robotaxi service operating commercially in Wuhan, Beijing, and other Chinese cities. One of the world's largest autonomous ride-hailing fleets, with no safety driver in select zones.
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BAIDU
Baidu's open-source deep learning framework, China's most widely used ML platform with 10M+ developers. Offers pre-trained models, AutoDL tooling, and deployment across cloud, edge, and mobile.
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ANT GROUP
Ant Group's full-modal AI assistant launched November 2025 — China's first AI assistant with code-driven output generation. Three core features: Lingguang Chat (conversational AI), Flash App (generate functional mini-apps from natural language in under 30 seconds), and Lingguang Open Eye (real-time scene understanding via camera). Supports 3D models, audio, video, icons, animations, and maps as native output types. Available on iOS and Android.
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ANT GROUP
Ant Group's consumer healthcare AI app. Supports medical consultations, image interpretation (lab reports, case files, prescriptions, and medication packaging), and personal and family health record management. One of China's most-used AI health platforms with 27M+ monthly active users.
27.1MMAU
Quest Mobile
TENCENT
Tencent Cloud's AI coding assistant, shipped as an IDE plugin, standalone IDE, and CLI; the 2.0 upgrade (early 2026) added Plan Mode, ACP protocol support, an open SDK, sandboxed code execution, and a Skills feature, blending Tencent Hunyuan and DeepSeek models across 200+ languages.
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TENCENT
Tencent Cloud's OpenClaw-like desktop AI agent — a digital employee that executes computer tasks from natural language commands. Launched March 9, 2026. Ships with 20+ built-in skill packages, MCP protocol support, parallel multi-agent operation, and automatic task decomposition. Integrates directly with WeChat, QQ, Feishu, and DingTalk in under one minute. Supports Hunyuan, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and MiniMax as swappable underlying models.
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TENCENT
Tencent's consumer AI agent app built on the open-source OpenClaw framework. Three preconfigured modes: QClaw It (recurring tasks like travel planning and tax returns), QClaw Daily (fitness, sleep, and health routines), and QClaw Up (marketing, social media, job applications). Launched China in March 2026; international beta live in Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the US across WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, and QQ.
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TENCENT
Tencent's flagship consumer AI assistant powered by Hunyuan. Supports deep search, document analysis, image understanding, and AI-assisted writing. Tightly integrated with the WeChat ecosystem for seamless sharing and collaboration.
57.4MMAU
Quest Mobile
TENCENT
AI-powered knowledge and productivity workspace by Tencent. Supports document organization, semantic search, AI writing, and knowledge base construction — powered by Hunyuan for enterprise and personal use.
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KUAISHOU
Kuaishou's global AI video generation platform. Supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and virtual try-on at up to 4K resolution with advanced camera control. Consistently benchmarks ahead of Sora and Runway Gen-3 on VBench. Available via web and API.
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XIAOMI
Xiaomi's humanoid robot (177cm, 52kg, 21 DOF) with AI vision and motion control. Entered EV factory trials in early 2026, targeting large-scale industrial deployment within five years
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XIAOMI
Developer API for the MiMo model family with OpenAI-compatible endpoints; supports long-context reasoning up to 1M tokens
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XIAOMI
Xiaomi's OS-level AI layer embedded across all HyperOS devices. Features AI writing, image enhancement, live captions, real-time translation, and on-device MiMo inference
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XIAOMI
Xiaomi's AI voice assistant active on 600M+ devices — phones, speakers, TVs, and appliances. Handles smart home control, reminders, search, and conversational AI powered by MiMo and on-device models
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MEITUAN
On Sept 23-24, 2026 Meituan launched the flagship edition of its hotel-industry AI product Jibai, repositioning it from an efficiency assistant into a full business advisor giving hoteliers end-to-end operational recommendations; first-cohort partner hotels reportedly saw ~20% efficiency gains, and the tool already serves 100,000+ merchants.
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MEITUAN
Autonomous delivery robot fleet operating in select Chinese cities; uses onboard AI vision and navigation
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AISPHERE
AI video generation from text or image; 100M+ registered users across 175 countries
16MMAU
Company disclosure
UNITREE ROBOTICS
Unitree's flagship commercial humanoid robot, available in 16 configurations from $13,500 to $73,900. Stands 127 cm, weighs 35 kg, with 23–43 DOF and a 3-finger dexterous hand. Walks at 2 m/s and supports the UnifoLM-VLA-0 AI model for autonomous task execution. The world's best-selling humanoid robot in 2025.
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UNITREE ROBOTICS
Research-grade humanoid robot standing 180 cm and weighing 47 kg. The H1 holds the world record for bipedal running speed (3.3 m/s). Powered by an Intel i7 onboard computer with 19 DOF. The H1-2 upgrade adds enhanced dexterity. Primarily targeted at research institutions and industrial labs. Priced around $90,000.
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UNITREE ROBOTICS
Unitree's consumer and research quadruped robot dog, priced from ~$1,600. Features 3D LiDAR, depth cameras, AI perception, and full ROS2 support. Go2 Pro and Go2 Edu variants offer expanded compute and payload for research applications. Widely adopted by universities and developers worldwide.
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UNITREE ROBOTICS
A wheeled humanoid with a full upper body for manipulation tasks, starting at ~$4,290 for the upper-body-only configuration. Designed for stationary manipulation, service robotics, and cost-sensitive deployments. Supports 6 hours of continuous operation.
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SENSETIME
Launched Sept 20, 2026, a new edition of SenseTime's Raccoon Work agent platform aimed at urban governance and industrial digital transformation, letting non-technical users trigger data correlation, semantic parsing, trend analysis and report generation via natural-language queries.
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SENSETIME
SenseTime's enterprise AI platform providing SenseNova model APIs, real-time streaming, fine-tuning, and on-premise deployment for regulated industries.
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SENSETIME
Digital human video generation platform for creating lifelike AI avatars from text or audio. Used for enterprise video production and virtual presenters.
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SENSETIME
Text-to-image generation platform powered by SenseNova diffusion models. High-resolution creative image generation with fine-grained style control.
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SENSETIME
SenseTime's flagship consumer AI assistant powered by SenseNova. Supports real-time audio and video interaction, document analysis, and image understanding. Available in Mandarin and Cantonese.
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BAICHUAN AI
AI family doctor product powered by Baichuan-M4. Covers consultation, clinical reasoning, and chronic disease management via a Medical AI + Agent strategy. Clinical partnerships with Beijing Children's Hospital, National Cancer Center, and Ruijin Hospital. Launched May 2026.
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01.AI
AI-powered document workspace targeting global markets. Features chat-with-document, AI presentation generation, and visual understanding. Supports 200+ languages. Primary B2C revenue driver for 01.AI following the company's 2025 pivot away from LLM pre-training.
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KUNLUN TECH
Kunlun's flagship AI assistant and super-agent platform. Powered by the Skywork LLM family; supports one-stop document generation, PPT creation, spreadsheets, web pages, and deep research via Skywork Super Agents (launched May 2025).
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KUNLUN TECH
AI short drama and video creation platform. Generates videos up to 3 minutes with AI-authored characters, storylines, and synchronized audio. Powered by SkyReels V4. Overseas short drama ARR exceeded $400M in 2025.
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KUNLUN TECH
AI music generation platform powered by Mureka V9. Supports full-track generation with controllable vocal expression, mixing quality, and rich style options. One of the fastest-monetizing Chinese AI music products globally.
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KUNLUN TECH
AI social platform for overseas markets. Focuses on AI character-based social interactions and companionship. Monthly revenue exceeded $1M in 2024.
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EVOKEN
A model community marketplace with a full-featured image and video generation Studio. Hosts LoRA checkpoints, fine-tuned models, and custom AI workflows built on Stable Diffusion and FLUX foundations.
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IFLYTEK
iFlyTek unveiled the AINOTE 2 (Guinness World Records-certified as the world's thinnest E Ink tablet, 4.2mm)
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IFLYTEK
Interactive AI blackboard demoed at WAIC 2026 that converts handwritten equations into rotatable, labeled 3D models in real time.
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IFLYTEK
Consumer AI assistant powered by Spark models. Voice-first interaction in Chinese and English.
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IFLYTEK
Pocket AI translator supporting 60 languages across 200+ countries. Ninth consecutive year as best-selling category device.
1M+ usersMAU
iFlyTek
IFLYTEK
AI-powered e-ink writing tablet with real-time transcription and Spark AI integration.
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INFINIGENCE AI
Global-scale GPU cloud supporting clusters of up to 100,000 GPUs across 10+ chip architectures.
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INFINIGENCE AI
Lean edge computing platform for single-GPU terminal deployments with energy-efficient inference.
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INFINIGENCE AI
Cloud-native agent swarm orchestration for autonomous multi-agent collaboration. Launched 2026.
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SILICONFLOW
MaaS platform with unified API access to 200+ LLMs, image gen, speech, and embedding models — including DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM. OpenAI-compatible API.
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MODELBEST
Collaborative multi-agent framework for automated software development using LLM teams.
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WERIDE
WeRide's L4 robotaxi service powered by the WeRide One platform. Operates 24/7 driverless commercial rides in Guangzhou, Beijing, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai — also accessible via the Uber app in the Middle East. The current vehicle is the GXR, a purpose-built robotaxi with NVIDIA dual Thor compute.
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WERIDE
One-stage end-to-end L2+ ADAS co-developed with Bosch. Integrates sensing and decision-making into a single neural step. Launched August 2025, targeted for mass production.
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PONY.AI
Fully driverless L4 robotaxi service in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Irvine/Fremont CA. Accessible via WeChat Mini Program and iOS app. Achieved unit economics breakeven in Guangzhou (late 2025) and Shenzhen (Feb 2026).
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SHENGSHU TECHNOLOGY
Consumer and creator SaaS platform for AI video generation. Supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video. Available in 200+ countries; 10× user growth in 2025.
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DIDI AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
24/7 fully driverless L4 robotaxi service. Commercially live in Guangzhou since December 2025 via GAC Aion joint venture; 500+ vehicle fleet across Guangzhou and Shanghai.
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UNISOUND
MaaS developer API platform for Unisound's full model suite — text LLM, ASR, TTS, voice clone, OCR, and multimodal. Token-based billing with one-click integration.
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MOMENTA
Momenta's mass-market assisted-driving system (highway + urban NOA). A scalable "flywheel" data-driven ADAS deployed across dozens of production vehicles with partner automakers.
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MOMENTA
Momenta's full self-driving stack for L4 robotaxi operations, built on an end-to-end model architecture. Powers robotaxi trials expanding to Abu Dhabi and Munich, with a planned Uber partnership.
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QIHOO 360
360's agentic AI search app — multi-step research, task automation, and content generation on top of 360Zhinao and third-party models.
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QIHOO 360
AI-powered search experience integrating 360Zhinao for conversational answers and source aggregation.
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QIHOO 360
Web browser with built-in 360Zhinao AI assistant for summarization, translation, and writing.
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MANUS (BUTTERFLY EFFECT)
General-purpose autonomous AI agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks (research, coding, data work, browsing) by orchestrating third-party frontier models. Went viral at its March 2025 launch.
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MANUS (BUTTERFLY EFFECT)
Butterfly Effect's earlier product — a multi-model browser assistant aggregating commercial LLMs for translation, summarization, and writing.
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LIMX DYNAMICS
Full-size general-purpose humanoid robot, ~165 cm with 31 DoF, depth cameras and interchangeable end effectors (two-finger grippers or five-finger dexterous hands). Targets research, manufacturing, and commercial deployment. The CL-3 variant adds a 3-DoF waist and 7-DoF arms for full-body motion.
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LIMX DYNAMICS
Multi-form embodied robot — one body with biped, dual-wheeled-leg, and dual-manipulator configurations for all-terrain movement (up to 30 kg payload on the wheeled-leg setup).
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XPENG
Mass-produced robotaxi built on a full in-house stack (Turing chip + VLA 2.0). Rolled out in Guangzhou in May 2026 — the first Chinese automaker to mass-produce a robotaxi end-to-end.
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XPENG
Humanoid robot targeting large-scale mass production by Q4 2026, first deployed in receptionist/sales-assistant roles.
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XPENG
Modular "land aircraft carrier" — a detachable flying module paired with an EV base. 7,000+ orders; targeting 2027 mass production pending aviation approval.
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AGIBOT
Full-size humanoid robot (175cm, 55kg) for industrial deployment, available in Ultra/Lite/W variants — built for manufacturing and logistics environments.
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AGIBOT
Compact humanoid robot series for household-adjacent, education, and service use.
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Est. 2026
The essential tracker for China's AI ecosystem
One place to follow every major model release, funding round, product launch, and breakthrough from China's AI ecosystem.
Tony Peng
AI observer · Journalist · Communications professional
China AI Index is a research project built and maintained by Tony Peng — a long-time observer of the AI industry with a background in journalism and communications — with the assistance of AI (Claude Code, Qoder, and Z Code). Tony is also the writer behind Recode China AI, a newsletter tracking the latest advances and news stories in intelligent technologies.
It exists to give English-speaking researchers, investors, journalists, and developers a structured reference for China's AI ecosystem — most authoritative information is published in Chinese, and this site translates and synthesizes it.
What we track
Models
Every major LLM, reasoning model, vision model, and generative AI model from Chinese labs — with benchmark scores, context windows, and live API pricing so you can compare apples to apples.
Financing
Full funding histories for private companies (ByteDance, DeepSeek, MiniMax, Moonshot…) and market data for public ones (Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Kuaishou). Valuations, investors, round sizes.
Newsfeed
News covering model launches, research breakthroughs, product announcements, and strategic moves — presented in a clean timeline with company tags and category filters.
People
Key founders, CEOs, CTOs, and researchers behind China's AI labs — with titles, Chinese names, and links to their social profiles so you know the faces shaping the industry.
Members
Regulation
A timeline of China's AI rules — generative AI measures, algorithm filing requirements, model approval lists, data law touchpoints, and provincial subsidy programs. Click any entry for the original text.
Members
Chips
Domestic AI accelerators, training clusters, and memory chips — specs, interconnect bandwidth, process nodes, and deployment status for China's emerging chip ecosystem.
Data Disclaimer
All pricing, benchmark scores, funding amounts, and valuations are sourced from public company announcements, tech media reporting, and developer documentation. They are provided for informational purposes only and may be approximate or subject to change.
Stock prices shown are approximate historical ranges — not real-time quotes. Always verify with a live financial data source before making investment decisions. Benchmark scores reflect results at the time of model release and may not account for subsequent updates.
This database is independently maintained and has no affiliation with any of the companies listed. Information is updated manually on a best-effort basis.
China AI Regulation
A timeline of generative AI rules, algorithm filing requirements, model approval lists, and data law touchpoints — with links to original texts
2026
Sep
Extends the August deployment-side guide upstream to agent system development. Together the two documents suggest TC260 is building a build-and-run pair for agents ahead of any binding rule.
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2026
Sep
Four documents released together, the start of a general-plus-sector series. The General Principles apply across all industries; the other three give sector-specific security practice guidance for education, health, and broadcasting/online audiovisual. Drafting units include CESI, the NRTA research academy, NHC and MOE information centers.
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You're viewing the first 2 entries free. The full regulation timeline — 16 laws, measures, and strategy documents back to 2017 — is included with a paid Recode China AI subscription.
China's Chip Ecosystem
Domestic AI accelerators, large-scale training clusters, and memory chips — tracking the hardware layer behind China's AI buildout.
AI Accelerators
Clusters & Supernodes
Memory & HBM
Role
Precision
| Company | Chip | Role | Peak Compute | Memory Tech | Capacity | Bandwidth | Interconnect Bandwidth |
TDP | Process | Status | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huawei ↗ | Ascend 910B |
Training |
256 TFLOPS
BF16
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HBM2e | 64 GB | 2.0 TB/s |
392 GB/s
HCCS 3.0
|
400 W | SMIC N+2 | Production | Most-deployed domestic training chip. Used at Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent. |
| Huawei ↗ | Ascend 910C |
Training |
800 TFLOPS
FP16
|
HBM2e | 96 GB | 4.0 TB/s |
800 GB/s
HCCS
|
900 W | SMIC N+2 | Production | Dual-die upgrade to 910B. Powers the Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD (300 PFLOPS). |
| 🔒 18 more accelerators — paid subscribers only | |||||||||||
Specs marked ~ are estimates from third-party analysis. Click any column header to sort. Interconnect Bandwidth = chip-to-chip fabric bandwidth per chip (bidirectional).
| Cluster / Supernode | Operator | Chip | Chip Count | Total Compute | Interconnect Fabric | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD (CloudMatrix 384) |
Huawei Cloud | Ascend 910C | 384 |
300 PFLOPS
FP16
|
All-optical (OXC) | Huawei's current-generation supernode. Uses optical circuit switching (OXC) for low-latency inter-chip communication. Announced April 2025 as a full-stack domestic alternative to Nvidia GB200 NVL72. |
Atlas 950 SuperPoD |
Huawei Cloud | Ascend 950 | 8,192 |
8 EFLOPS
FP8
|
16.3 PB/s aggregate | Next-generation supernode targeting 2026 delivery. 1,152 TB total memory. Full liquid cooling. Footprint larger than two basketball courts. Would represent a major leap in domestic training capacity if delivered at spec. |
| 🔒 3 more clusters — paid subscribers only | ||||||
Cluster sizes and compute figures are from official announcements or credible press reports.
| Company | Product | Type | Capacity | Bandwidth | Process | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CXMT ↗ | DDR5 |
DDR | 16–32 Gb dies | ~6400 MT/s | ~16nm (G4) | Production | CXMT's latest-generation DDR5, unveiled Nov 2025 — its push into the high-end DRAM market against Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. |
| CXMT ↗ | LPDDR5X |
LPDDR | Mobile | ~8533 MT/s | ~16nm | Production | Low-power mobile DRAM for smartphones and edge/AI devices. |
| 🔒 2 more memory chips — paid subscribers only | |||||||
DRAM, HBM, and NAND from Chinese memory makers. Specs marked ~ are estimates from third-party analysis or press reports.