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01.AI

PRIVATE BEIJING EST. 2023 ~200 STAFF

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.

Website ↗API Platform ↗HuggingFace ↗GitHub ↗

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.

Context—

Input

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

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PopAI ↗

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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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.

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Reference Table

All Models

Compare models across all 41 Chinese AI companies

Company ↕

Model ↕

Type ↕

AA Score ↕

Released ▼

Context ↕

Input ↕

Output ↕

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

—

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

—

2026-08-05

—

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

—

Xiaomi

Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (XR-1) Open

VLA 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

—

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

58/100

2026-08-03

$2.00/1M tokens

$6.0/1M tokens

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

—

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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DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Open

Public-beta API release; retrained V4-Flash beats DeepSeek's own larger V4-Pro-Preview on all 9 published agent/coding benchmarks

Text

52/100

2026-07-31

$0.14/1M Tokens

$0.28/1M Tokens

SenseTime

SenseNova-U1.5-8B-MoT-Preview Open

Lightweight 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

—

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

—

2026-07-31

512K

—

Alibaba

Qwen3.7-Flash Closed

Native vision-language Flash upgrade with stronger object recognition, spatial intelligence, and multimodal agent execution

Multimodal

—

2026-07-25

$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

38/100

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

—

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

—

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

—

Tencent

Hy-Embodied-RxBrain-1.0 Open

Reasoning engine for embodied cognition: joint language-visual reasoning, world-state prediction, subgoal planning; ships with open RxBrain-Bench

Embodied

2026-07-19

—

SenseTime

SenseNova-U1 Pro Closed

Unifies seeing, generating, acting via NEO-unify architecture; native 8K output; debuted at WAIC 2026

Multimodal

—

2026-07-19

—

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

—

2026-07-19

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

Unisound

U2-Med Closed

First tri-medical LLM spanning healthcare, insurance and pharma; built on U2 foundation model

Multimodal

—

2026-07-17

—

Moonshot AI

Kimi K3 Open

Flagship model, 2.8T total parameters, strong coding and agent capabilities, open weights by July 27

Multimodal

60/100

2026-07-16

$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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

$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

44/100

2026-06

$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

—

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

—

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

—

2026-06

$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

—

Alibaba

Qwen3.7-Max Closed

Flagship closed-source reasoning model. Ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (57/100) 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

57/100

2026-05

$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

—

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

—

2026-05

—

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

—

2026-05

260K

—

ModelBest

MiniCPM5-1B Open

1B language model with 128K token context. SOTA on-device LLM at its size class. Apache 2.0.

Text

—

2026-05

128K

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

2026-04

$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

—

2026-04

$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

—

$0.03/image

—

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

—

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

34/100

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

—

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

—

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

—

2026-04

$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

—

Xiaomi

MiMo-V2-Pro Closed

1T+ MoE, 42B active; hybrid attention; 1M token context

Text

—

2026-03

$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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

$0.026/image

—

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

—

2026-02

262K (1M w/ YaRN)

—

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

—

2026-02

256K

—

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

—

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

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

—

2026-02

128K

—

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

—

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

—

2026-02

256K

—

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

—

2026-02

—

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

—

2026-02

—

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

—

2026-02

—

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.5 Open

1T MoE (32B active); trained on 15T vision+text tokens; thinking & instant modes; agent swarm support

Multimodal

—

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

—

2026-01

—

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

—

Meituan

LongCat-Flash-Lite Open

68.5B MoE, 2.9–4.5B active; fast and efficient

Text

—

2026-01

256K

—

AIsphere

PixVerse R1 Closed

Real-time world model; 1080p, <15s latency, physics-aware, infinite temporal continuity

Video Gen

2026-01

N/A

—

SenseTime

SenseNova V6.5 Omni Closed

Real-time multimodal streaming model. Powers SenseChat's live audio/video interaction. Successor to V6 Pro.

Multimodal

—

2026-01

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

2025-12

N/A

$0.16/video (5s)

—

Xiaomi

MiMo-V2-Flash Open

309B MoE, 15B active; trained on 27T tokens; open-source release

Text

—

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

—

Tencent

Hunyuan3D 3.0 Closed

3D asset generation from text, image, or sketch input

3D Gen

2025-11

—

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

—

2025-11

—

MiniMax

MiniMax-M2 Open

230B MoE (10B active); interleaved thinking; open-source under Modified MIT; free API available

Agent

2025-10

1M tokens

—

Infinigence AI

Megrez2-3x7B-A3B Open

MoE edge model: 3×7B experts, 3B active parameters. Open-weight, Apache 2.0.

Text

—

2025-09

—

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

—

ModelBest

MiniCPM-V 4.5 Open

8B multimodal model (Qwen3-8B + SigLIP2). Apache 2.0.

Multimodal

—

2025-08

—

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

—

~$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

—

2025-06

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

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

$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

—

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

—

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)

—

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

—

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

—

2024-11

—

Qihoo 360

360Zhinao2-7B Open

Second-generation 360Zhinao with Base and Chat variants at 4K / 32K / 360K context lengths.

Text

—

2024-11

360K

—

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

—

Baichuan AI

Baichuan4-Air Closed

MoE variant (PRI architecture) of Baichuan4. High performance at low cost for API deployments.

Text

—

2024-10

192K

—

01.AI

Yi-Lightning Closed

Text

—

2024-10

16K

$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

—

2024-09

128K

—

iFlyTek

Spark 4.0 Closed

Flagship LLM (Aug 2024). Claims comparable performance to GPT-4 Turbo on Chinese language benchmarks.

Text

—

2024-08

—

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

—

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

—

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

—

01.AI

Yi-VL-34B Open

34B vision-language model (early 2024). Open-weight multimodal extension of Yi-34B.

Multimodal

—

2024-01

—

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

—

2023-11

200K

—

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

—

2023-10

—

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

—

Baidu

ERNIE-Speed Closed

Free tier for prototyping and light production

Text

—

128K

—

Meituan

LongCat-Image Open

Image generation model, ~6B params; data-quality focused; released Dec 2025

Image Gen

—

N/A

—

Meituan

LongCat-Video Open

Text-to-video generation model; released Oct 2025

Video Gen

—

N/A

—

Meituan

LongCat-Flash-Omni Open

Text + vision + audio multimodal

Multimodal

—

256K

—

Meituan

LongCat-Flash-Thinking Open

Chain-of-thought reasoning variant of LongCat-Flash

Text

—

256K

—

Meituan

LongCat-Flash-Chat Open

560B MoE, 27B active; open-source; 500K free tokens/day

Text

—

128K

—

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.

Embodied

—

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.

Embodied

—

Unisound

UniGPT (Shanhai 山海) Closed

60B+ parameter general large model (v5.0); underpins all Unisound vertical products. Medical, enterprise, and consumer deployments.

Text

—

Unisound

U2-ASR 2.5 Closed

First LLM-based semantic ASR model for Chinese. Covers 100+ dialects across 7 dialect systems. >90% accuracy. Available via Token Hub API.

Audio

—

Unisound

U2-TTS / U2-TTS-Clone Closed

Text-to-speech and voice cloning with full-duplex millisecond response. Available via Token Hub API.

Audio

—

Unisound

U1-OCR Closed

Industrial-grade document intelligence model for OCR and document understanding. Launched February 2026.

Multimodal

—

Disclosed, 2026 YTD

Funding & Markets

Private funding rounds and public market data for China's leading AI companies

Companies tracked
20 public · 21 private

~$29.9B

AI startup funding
12 AI-native cos

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Valuation, total funding & AI ARR, side-by-side

Most Active Investors

1 Tencent

2 HongShan Capital

3 Alibaba

4 IDG Capital

5 Shunwei Capital

Derived live from 165 rounds

ByteDance

PRIVATE

Valuation$600B

Total Raised~$12.61B+

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$5.79B

AI ARR$1B

MiniMax

0100.HK

Market Cap—

Total Raised$2.17B

AI ARR$300M

Moonshot AI

PRIVATE

Valuation$35B

Total Raised~$8.2B+

AI ARR$300M

DeepSeek

PRIVATE

Valuation$50B

Total Raised$7.35B

AI ARR$500M

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

PRIVATE

Valuation~$1.65B

Total Raised~$250M+

Last Round2025

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

PRIVATE

Valuation—

Total Raised—

Last Round—

SiliconFlow

PRIVATE

Valuation¥7.7B

Total Raised$287M

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

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

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.

SeedRealtime ↗

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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real-time voicevideo callmultimodalconsumer app

Doubao (豆包) ↗

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

ChatConsumerMultimodal

Coze (扣子) ↗

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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Agent BuilderNo-CodeWorkflow

Jimeng (即梦) ↗

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

Image GenVideo GenCreative

QwenWork ↗

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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enterprise agentworkplace productivityagent platformbeta launch

Qoder (灵码) ↗

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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CodeDeveloperAgenticGlobal

Qwen Cloud ↗

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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EnterpriseAPICloudAI Agent

Qwen (千问) ↗

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

ChatMultimodalConsumer

DingTalk AI (钉钉) ↗

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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EnterpriseProductivityCollaboration

ModelScope (魔搭) ↗

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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Open SourceModel HubDeveloper

ZCode ↗

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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AI codingIDEagentic codingGLM-5.2

ChatGLM (智谱清言) ↗

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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ChatConsumerMultimodal

AutoGLM ↗

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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AgentAutomationMobile

CogView / CogVideo ↗

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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Image GenVideo GenOpen Source

Talkie (星野) ↗

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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CompanionshipConsumerGlobal

Hailuo AI (海螺AI) ↗

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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Video GenConsumerCreative

MiniMax Assistant ↗

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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ChatConsumerLong Context

Kimi Work ↗

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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desktop agentagent swarmproductivitylocal AI

Kimi ↗

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

ChatLong ContextReasoningAgent

DeepSeek ↗

DEEPSEEK

Consumer AI chat powered by V3/R1. Became globally viral in Jan 2025 with free reasoning access.

127.1MMAU

Quest Mobile

ChatFreeConsumerReasoning

DeepSeek API ↗

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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DeveloperAPIOpenAI-compatible

Yuewen (跃问) ↗

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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ChatConsumerLong Context

Step Video ↗

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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Video GenConsumerAPI

Miaoda (秒哒) ↗

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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No-CodeDeveloperAgent Builder

Wenxin (文心) ↗

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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ChatSearchConsumer

Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) ↗

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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Autonomous DrivingRobotaxiB2C

PaddlePaddle (飞桨) ↗

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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ML FrameworkOpen SourceDeveloper

Lingguang (灵光) ↗

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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ChatMultimodalConsumerNo-Code

AQ (阿福) ↗

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

HealthcareConsumerMedical AI

CodeBuddy ↗

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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AI codingIDECLIagentic coding

WorkBuddy ↗

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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AI AgentEnterpriseProductivity

QClaw ↗

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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AI AgentConsumerGlobal

Tencent Yuanbao (元宝) ↗

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

ChatConsumerWeChat

Ima (腾讯ima) ↗

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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ProductivityKnowledge BaseEnterprise

Kling AI (可灵) ↗

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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Video GenConsumerGlobal

CyberOne ↗

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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HumanoidRoboticsEmbodied AI

MiMo Platform ↗

XIAOMI

Developer API for the MiMo model family with OpenAI-compatible endpoints; supports long-context reasoning up to 1M tokens

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LLM APIDeveloper

HyperOS AI ↗

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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OSOn-device AIConsumer

Xiao Ai (小爱同学) ↗

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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AI AssistantConsumerVoiceIoT

Meituan AI Delivery Robot ↗

MEITUAN

Autonomous delivery robot fleet operating in select Chinese cities; uses onboard AI vision and navigation

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RoboticsDeliveryAutonomous

Paiwo AI (拍我AI) ↗

AISPHERE

China domestic version of PixVerse; launched June 2025

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AI VideoConsumerChina

PixVerse ↗

AISPHERE

AI video generation from text or image; 100M+ registered users across 175 countries

16MMAU

Company disclosure

AI VideoCreativeConsumerGlobal

G1 Humanoid ↗

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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HumanoidCommercialEmbodied AI

H1 / H1-2 Humanoid ↗

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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HumanoidResearchIndustrial

Go2 Robot Dog ↗

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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QuadrupedConsumerResearchOpen Source

R1 Wheeled Humanoid ↗

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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HumanoidWheeledAffordable

SenseNova ↗

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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EnterpriseAPICloud

SenseAvatar ↗

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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Video GenDigital HumanEnterprise

SenseMirage ↗

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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Image GenCreativeConsumer

SenseChat ↗

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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ChatConsumerMultimodal

百小医 (Baixiao Yi) ↗

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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MedicalAgentConsumer

PopAI ↗

01.AI

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ChatDocumentsGlobalConsumer

Tiangong AI ↗

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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ChatAgentEnterprise

SkyReels ↗

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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Video GenCreativeConsumerGlobal

Mureka ↗

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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AudioMusicConsumerGlobal

Linky ↗

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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SocialConsumerGlobal

LibLibAI ↗

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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Image GenVideo GenCommunityCreativeConsumer

Tongchuang AI Blackboard ↗

IFLYTEK

Interactive AI blackboard demoed at WAIC 2026 that converts handwritten equations into rotatable, labeled 3D models in real time.

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educationhardwareWAIC2026

Spark App ↗

IFLYTEK

Consumer AI assistant powered by Spark models. Voice-first interaction in Chinese and English.

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ChatConsumerVoice

Smart Translator 4.0 ↗

IFLYTEK

Pocket AI translator supporting 60 languages across 200+ countries. Ninth consecutive year as best-selling category device.

1M+ usersMAU

iFlyTek

HardwareConsumerTranslation

AINOTE Air 2 ↗

IFLYTEK

AI-powered e-ink writing tablet with real-time transcription and Spark AI integration.

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HardwareConsumerProductivity

Infinicloud ↗

INFINIGENCE AI

Global-scale GPU cloud supporting clusters of up to 100,000 GPUs across 10+ chip architectures.

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CloudInfrastructureEnterprise

InfiniEdge ↗

INFINIGENCE AI

Lean edge computing platform for single-GPU terminal deployments with energy-efficient inference.

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EdgeInfrastructure

Agents Infra ↗

INFINIGENCE AI

Cloud-native agent swarm orchestration for autonomous multi-agent collaboration. Launched 2026.

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AgentsEnterpriseInfrastructure

SiliconCloud ↗

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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MaaSLLM APIInferenceDeveloper

ChatDev ↗

MODELBEST

Collaborative multi-agent framework for automated software development using LLM teams.

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AgentsDeveloperOpen Source

WeRide Go ↗

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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RobotaxiAutonomous DrivingL4

WePilot AiDrive ↗

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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ADASL2+AutomotiveB2B

PonyPilot Robotaxi ↗

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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RobotaxiAutonomous DrivingL4

Vidu ↗

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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Video GenConsumerCreativeGlobal

DiDi Autonomous Driving ↗

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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RobotaxiAutonomous DrivingL4

Token Hub ↗

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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APIDeveloperEnterprise

Mpilot ↗

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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ADASL2+AutomotiveB2B

MSD (Momenta Self Driving) ↗

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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RobotaxiAutonomous DrivingL4

Nano AI (纳米AI搜索) ↗

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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AI SearchAgentConsumer

360 AI Search ↗

QIHOO 360

AI-powered search experience integrating 360Zhinao for conversational answers and source aggregation.

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AI SearchConsumer

360 AI Browser ↗

QIHOO 360

Web browser with built-in 360Zhinao AI assistant for summarization, translation, and writing.

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BrowserProductivityConsumer

Manus ↗

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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AI AgentAutonomousProductivity

Monica ↗

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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AssistantBrowserConsumer

LimX Oli ↗

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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HumanoidResearchCommercial

TRON 2 ↗

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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Multi-formWheeled-legEmbodied AI

TRON 1 ↗

LIMX DYNAMICS

Biped research platform for embodied-AI and locomotion research.

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BipedResearch

Robotaxi ↗

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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RobotaxiAutonomous DrivingPhysical AI

IRON Humanoid ↗

XPENG

Humanoid robot targeting large-scale mass production by Q4 2026, first deployed in receptionist/sales-assistant roles.

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HumanoidPhysical AI

Aridge Flying Car ↗

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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Flying CareVTOLPhysical AI

AGIBOT A2 ↗

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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HumanoidIndustrial

AGIBOT X2 ↗

AGIBOT

Compact humanoid robot series for household-adjacent, education, and service use.

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HumanoidCompactEducation

Est. 2026

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2026 Jul

TC260Agentscybersecurity

Effective: 2026-07-01 Issuer: TC260 (National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee) Type: Practice Guide

Sets a lifecycle security framework for AI agents across five stages — assessment, preparation, deployment, use, decommissioning. Requires least-privilege access, restricted network exposure, full audit logging, secondary confirmation on high-risk operations (payments, deletions, permission changes), sandboxing, and secure data wipe on decommission. Reflects a shift from treating agents as lightweight LLM wrappers to integrated systems with memory/tools/autonomy that need dedicated governance.

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LabelingWatermarkingGenAIKey

Effective: Sep 1, 2025 Issuer: CAC / MIIT / MPS / NRTA Type: Administrative Measure

Mandates two-layer labeling for all AI-generated text, images, audio, video, and virtual scenes: an explicit label visible to users (text, voice, or graphic indicator) and an implicit label embedded in file metadata as a digital watermark carrying generation information and producer details. Download, copy, and export functions must preserve labels. Content distribution platforms must verify metadata and add indicators when redistributing AI content. Users publishing AI-generated content must declare its origin. Prohibits malicious deletion, tampering, forgery, or concealment of required labels, and bans tools that enable such conduct. Issued March 7, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.

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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

Company ↕	Chip ↕	Role	Peak Compute ↕	Memory Tech	Capacity ↕	Bandwidth ↕	Interconnect Bandwidth ↕	TDP ↕	Process	Status	Highlights
Huawei ↗	Ascend 910B	Training	256 TFLOPS BF16	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).
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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.
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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.
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DRAM, HBM, and NAND from Chinese memory makers. Specs marked ~ are estimates from third-party analysis or press reports.

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