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ByteDance is China's largest internet company, best known for TikTok and Douyin. Its AI division operates under the Doubao and Seed brands, developing frontier multimodal and video generation models that power Doubao — one of China's most-used AI apps — and are distributed to enterprises via the Volcano Engine cloud platform.
Valuation
$600B
Total Raised
~$42.21B+
SeedRealtime
Multimodal
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
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Seedance 2.5
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Native single-shot 30s video generation up to 4K, accepts up to 50 multimodal references; launched head-to-head vs MiniMax H3
Design Arena Video1302/100
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Seed2.0 Pro
Multimodal
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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%.
AIME 202598/100
SWE-bench77/100
Vision Arena95/100
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Seedream 5.0 Lite
Image Gen
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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.
Prompt Following92/100
Image Quality90/100
Edit Accuracy88/100
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Seedance 2.0
Video Gen
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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.
Motion Quality91/100
Prompt Adherence89/100
Audio Sync88/100
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Total Raised
~$42.21B+
All rounds
Valuation
$600B
Post-money (approx.)
Last Round
2026
Most recent year
AI ARR
$4B
as of 2026-07
Round Timeline
2012-03
AngelSeveral million RMB
Source Code CapitalLiu JunZhou Zijing
2012-07
Series A$1M
SIG Asia Investments
2013-09
Series B$10M
DST GlobalQihoo 360
2014-06
Series C~$100Mval $500M
HongShan CapitalSina Weibo FundShunwei Capital
2016-12
Series D~$200Mval $11B
HongShan CapitalCCB International
2017-08
Series E~$1Bval $20B
General Atlantic
2018-10
Pre-IPO / Series F$3Bval $75B
SoftBank Vision FundKKRPrimavera CapitalYunfeng CapitalGeneral Atlantic
2020-03
Strategic~$1.3Bval $140B
Tiger Global Management
2021-04
—$2B
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2023-12
Buyback$5Bval $268B
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2026-9
Offshore Syndicated Loan$29.6Bval $550B
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.
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.
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.
344.9M MAU · Quest Mobile
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.
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.
13.5M MAU · Quest Mobile
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.
Beanbag layoffs, conversation team cut in half? Doubao Liu Xing: False, department division of labor adjustment
Nvidia-backed Nscale buried ByteDance deal in push to $35bn IPO
Nscale left its biggest customer unnamed in $35bn IPO filing: ByteDance
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna; ByteDance Bean Pack Shrink Conversation Team; QQ releases AI mobile full stack solution | Geeks already know
ByteDance Notice: 114 employees were dismissed in the second quarter for violating the company's red line, and 8 people were handed over to the judiciary for criminal offences
ByteDance spent $2.6 billion to buy a piece of land in Beijing
Tencent Releases AI Image Model to Catch ByteDance, Alibaba
T Morning Post | ByteDance 2.6 billion yuan to buy land in Beijing; SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7 model; Smart Spectrum is accused of uploading data without user permission Subsequent apologies and open source ZCode
ByteDance spin-off Anew Labs raises US$290m as AI drug developers enjoy fundraising boom
How ByteDance’s AI-enhanced short-drama app leapfrogged Chinese streaming giants
Why Tencent, ByteDance and Alibaba Want to Own China’s AI Office
ByteDance completes $290 million fundraising for AI drug unit after its spin-off, sources say
ByteDance's AI-driven drug discovery unit closed a $290 million funding round at a roughly $1.5 billion valuation following its spin-off from the TikTok owner, according to sources.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming becomes Asia's richest person as AI boom lifts fortune past $105 billion
Zhang Yiming overtook Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person, with his ByteDance stake now worth more than $105 billion as the AI boom drives up the TikTok owner's valuation, per MIT Technology Review's daily briefing.
Hong Kong Morning Post | ByteDance CEO Says AI Peak Far Exceeds Previous Hardware “Lack of Core” or Continuous Upgrade
ByteDance’s First-Half Profit Drops to $20 Billion, Weighed Down by AI Spending
Jiang Kai officially joined the ByteDance Investment Department
ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo: The integration of beanbag, flying book and volcano engine will increase enterprise market investment
ByteDance Is Repricing Meituan’s Profit Pool
ICBC, HSBC Among Major Lenders on ByteDance’s $30 Billion Loan
Alibaba’s AI ‘employees’ can now work in ByteDance, Tencent apps
ByteDance Founder Joins AI Elite in Race to Perfect World Models
ByteDance secures $29.6 billion in loans
🗞️ByteDance's $30B Loan, Moonshot's IPO Filing, and China's Hottest AI Chip Debut Yet
ByteDance secures $29.6 billion loan in AI push, sources say
ByteDance Secures $30 Billion Loan as AI Investments Grow
Definitely worth more than an apple! Lu Weibing confirmed that the Xiaomi Mi 18 Fold is overpriced; the GPT-6 is shockingly released! Able to operate computers autonomously; ByteDance will receive approximately $29.6 billion in syndicated loans
Exclusive | ByteDance to expand massive AI data centre cluster in Inner Mongolia: source
Hong Kong Morning Post | ByteDance or $29.6 billion loan overweight AI OpenAI launches GPT-6
The second largest in Asia during the year! ByteDance will receive a syndicated loan of $29.6 billion
Watch ByteDance Gets $30B Loan to Fuel AI Ambitions | The China Show | 9/3/2026
ByteDance Gets $30 Billion Loan, Asia’s Second-Largest This Year
Doubaoqian asked to remove the "agent"? Translation is troubling Oolong, Agent is actually the top priority of the big factory
ByteDance incorporates TRAEs and buttons into the beanbag system, and Flying Book is split into AI strategic services.
Brazil fines TikTok owner ByteDance for unlawful processing of teenagers' data
In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacy
Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families
ByteDance Folds AI Tools Into Doubao Super-App to Fight Tencent
TikTok, ByteDance agree to US$400 million settlement with US over children’s privacy suit
Where will the AI characters of Doubao go offline? IQiyi Peach World will continue to love each other_Wonderful video presented to you_36氪
Doubao launches a side workbench that supports conversations and operations on the same screen.
"Doctor, Doubao said your diagnosis was wrong."
ByteDance Bets Against Its Own Playbook
Doubao's "Work Tasks" now supports local computer and cloud computer dual modes.
Alibaba, ByteDance trim gaming and retail to invest in AI
ByteDance Draws Over $30 Billion in Orders for Jumbo Bank Loan
Doubao Virtual Desktop can operate Windows on the virtual desktop
Morning Post | Yushu's "Superman" jumps 2 meters high on the spot/Xiaomi SU7 series delivery exceeds 500,000 units/Doubao supports mobile phone remote operation of computers
Yushu releases "Robot Superman": a 2m high jump on the spot; Doubao launches new functions, mobile phones can remotely control computers; Geely Automobile's structure adjustment, Li Shufu resigns as chairman of the board | Geeks Already Know
After passing "Musk's" strict selection, "Doubao" makes up for Tesla's only shortcoming
ByteDance signs AI copyright pact with Hollywood trade group
ByteDance’s paid novel app Red Candle Story is shut down. Its operation history has attracted attention after only 8 months of operation.
Doubao's "work tasks" have been upgraded to support remote computer control via mobile phones.
Douyin’s “Ctrip Dream” can be realized with Doubao?
Qianwen's intensive amplification moves, can you challenge Doubao?
Doubao commissions, Qianwen attracts investment: Press the fast forward button to commercialize AI traffic
US lifts TikTok ban on government devices after ByteDance restructuring
Yicai anchor said | Doubao urgently clarified that "Recommended hotels charge 12%": Inaccurate! What is the reasonable charge for AI life services?
Big models invade the OTA hinterland? Doubao claims that hotel recommendations "charge based on transaction" or challenges the "commission + advertising" model | Depth
ByteDance responded to “Doubao recommends hotels for a fee”: the relevant statement is inaccurate
Doubao started to collect commissions, and the domestic big model finally passed the most difficult road.
Zhang Yiming makes a rare appearance, ByteDance is about to launch a major strategic layout
Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations
New Beijing rules banning AI companion apps from fostering emotional dependency have left users mourning the loss of virtual partners, as ByteDance and other platforms scramble to comply.
ByteDance All-Member Meeting: Doubao and Douyin are at the core, and AI shopping guides are connected to e-commerce and charged separately
ByteDance held an all-staff meeting to review the progress of its AI business, saying that large models were being widened by overseas competition.
Zhao Qi held the steering wheel of Doubao
ByteDance targets mega AI model that could match Mythos scale, FT reports
ByteDance targets mega AI model nearing Anthropic’s Mythos
What did Liang Rubo say at ByteDance’s mid-year all-hands meeting this year?
ByteDance founder tells staff to avoid AI distillation, The Paper reports
Feishu merges into Doubao and Qianwen Office integrates. Has the AI war among major manufacturers changed from "horse racing" to "joint forces"?
ByteDance’s Founder Rules Out Distillation on AI Models
ByteDance launches large model SeedRealtime, domestic computing power logic is expected to continue to strengthen
ByteDance launches 2027 campus recruitment and continues to increase AI talent
[Preview of Tomorrow’s Topic] ByteDance launches SeedRealtime, a large native audio and video full-duplex model
Feishu merges into Doubao: ByteDance’s goal reshaping
ByteDance reorganizes ToB business: What new roles do Doubao, Feishu, and Huoshan play?
Video AI: MiniMax challenges ByteDance with low price, open weights for new H3 model
China’s MiniMax and ByteDance Release Dueling AI Video Models
GPT Weekly Report｜ByteDance and MiniMax released new models on the same day; NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft and Dell jointly support open source models
ByteDance releases Seedance 2.5, and XCMG, Xpeng and other companies officially announce cooperation
ByteDance releases video creation model Seedance 2.5
Yushu Technology will open IPO subscription on August 10; Byte ToB changes: Feishu Doubao volcano organization adjustment; Musk said that humans will land on Mars in 5-7 years | Geeks already knew
The two appearances of Doubao mobile phone
Investment World 24h | Yushu Technology subscribed on August 10; Byte integrated Feishu and Doubao teams; Shanghai SDIC established a Hong Kong fund
ByteDance’s US$4b projected AI revenue tops China as it restructures office tool Lark
Byte has established a Doubao office department
ByteDance sharpens AI focus as annualised revenue reaches US$4b
ByteDance’s plan to dominate AI
How ByteDance’s Seedance model empowers China’s nascent AI comic drama industry
ByteDance’s To B strategy upgrade: Doubao, Feishu, and Huoshan Engine organizational adjustments to focus on AI enterprise services
ByteDance adjusts AI business structure, large model business ARR is US$4 billion
ByteDance restructures ToB territory: Feishu and Doubao will be integrated, major manufacturers are fiercely fighting for the "AI job entrance"
ByteDance launches AI business organizational adjustment: Feishu and Doubaohuoshan team integration
Exclusive | Byte adjusts the organizational structure of Feishu, Huoshuo, and Doubao, and ToB business moves toward integration
ByteDance’s big bet on AI
ByteDance established a new technology company in Zhongwei with a registered capital of 2.2 billion
Behind the scenes of "Doubao second-generation mobile phone": Byte and ZTE "complement each other"
Morning Post | Realme suspends product updates/Huawei withdraws trademark application for "World"/Nubia's world's first AI smartphone equipped with Doubao mobile assistant
Doubao AI mobile phone will release multiple models this year
Primavera Seeks to Sell Shares in ByteDance, Ant to New Fund
Behind Doubao video calls, the Volcano Engine reconstructs the multi-modal transmission base for the Agent era
Get rich by going public! Changxin’s nearly 20,000 employees can each be divided into more than one million yuan, and some people have left due to the intensity of work; Hainan will become China’s first province to ban the sale of fuel vehicles; ByteDance’s entry into the autonomous driving field is revealed, and the official response
Doubao has started charging. Does Byte have any pressure to commercialize?
PixVerse Parent AIsphere Raises $439M, Valuation Tops $2B
AIsphere (爱诗科技), the Beijing startup behind AI video generator PixVerse, raised an additional $439M, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The round was led by CDH Investments (~$300M Series C in March) with an extension joined by Alibaba, Mirae Asset, BlueFocus and others. Its self-developed PixVerse V5 ranked #1 globally in Image-to-Video and #2 in Text-to-Video on Artificial Analysis. Founded in 2023 by former ByteDance vision lead Wang Changhu.
Chinese AI Labs Have the Models. Now They're Building the Coding Agents.
Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Z.ai, and Moonshot are all shipping coding agents. Revenue is only the surface reason.
Susquehanna, an Early Backer of ByteDance, Is Stepping Back From China Venture Deals
Another function of Doubao is offline, and "application generation" has stopped serving; Kimi's first AI-native credit card has finalized American Express and Agricultural Bank of China; MiniMax completed HK$16 billion in equity financing丨AI Weekly Report
OpenAI updates the speech model, and the C-side interactive experience is in line with Google and Doubao
China plans to let top AI firms buy limited amount of Nvidia H200 chips
Beijing will let Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek apply to buy under 200,000 Nvidia H200 chips for training only, easing a compute crunch while still pushing domestic chips for inference.
What kind of new regulations caused Doubao and Qianwen to remove their smart devices from the shelves?
Beijing weighs curbing overseas access to China's top AI models
Chinese authorities met with Alibaba, ByteDance and Zhipu AI (Z.ai) about restricting foreign access to advanced models, including unreleased ones, via a proposed tiered filing/security-review/domestic-only system.
China's leading chatbots to ditch AI personas as Beijing tightens rules
Alibaba's Qwen, ByteDance's Doubao and Tencent are disabling humanlike custom-agent features ahead of new anthropomorphic-AI rules taking effect July 15.
ByteDance, Alibaba Pull AI Companions as Beijing Tightens Rules
ByteDance and Alibaba disabled features letting users create customizable, humanlike AI companion personas ahead of new Beijing rules governing AI services that mimic human personality and emotional support.
Are we human? Why ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling AI agents in China
iPhone 18 Pro is equipped with the largest battery in history; Doubao and Qianwen will be offline with smart phone functions; Fable 5 is severely degraded and frequently downgraded
[Morning Post] Huawei releases V2 version of "Tao's Law" paper; Doubao and Qianwen: The intelligent agent function will be offline
Doubao and Qianwen simultaneously offline their smart body functions, and netizens are dissatisfied with the platform’s “one size fits all” approach.
Qianwen and Doubao will offline the "smart body" function, and the policies for AI companion chat products will be tightened
China’s ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom
Doubao and Tongyi Qianwen announced that the smart body function will be offline on July 15, 2026
Doubao: The intelligent agent function will be offline on July 15th
Paying a fee and focusing on programming, Doubao has started learning wisdom spectrum? _Wonderful video presented to you_36氪
New changes in intelligence! Doubao and Qianwen will be offline soon!
Doubao launches paid version, free version remains, AI dialogue is replacing traditional search
First-hand actual test: Three in-depth users tell you whether the charge for Doubao is worth it
ByteDance Picks Brazil for Its Largest Data Center Outside China
Doubao charging has attracted the attention of professionals: the era of free AI is not over, but the way of using it is changing
Doubao, start learning wisdom spectrum
Byte AI strategic shift: Doubao shifts from C-side chatting to B-side programming to compete for the developer market
T Morning Post | Cambrian Jicheng is the first trillion-dollar stock on the Science and Technology Innovation Board; a total of 80 employees of ByteDance were fired in the first quarter for touching the company's red line; UBTECH releases a bionic companion robot
TikTok Creator ByteDance Picks Brazil for Largest Data Center Outside China
ByteDance selected Brazil for a $39 billion data center complex that will be its largest facility outside China, as the company races to expand AI infrastructure.
Doubao socialization: AI assistant invades IM, and the entrance battle pattern changes
The peak price of the official version of DeepSeek V4 doubled; Doubao launched the "Doubao Navigation" function; Samsung and Micron Hynix were accused of "manipulating memory prices"
To socialize with Doubao, you must first settle the accounts clearly
Doubao responds to rumors of "internal testing of social functions": there is no such plan
Exclusive | ByteDance targets early next year for next-generation CPU: sources
Is ByteDance considering cooperating with Baidu Kunlun Core? Responses from people close to
ByteDance targets early next year for new CPU to power own AI infrastructure
ByteDance is targeting early next year to deploy a new self-developed CPU to power its AI infrastructure, part of an expanding in-house chip design effort the company had not previously disclosed publicly.
Huang Renxun said that useful AI can already make money, and plans to return 50% of free cash flow to shareholders; ByteDance releases Beanbao model 2.1 Pro; Countdown to SK Hynix’s listing in the United States丨AI Weekly Report
Doubao launches a professional version, can it become your "work companion"?
The agent was stationed in the work group, we gave Doubao some tips, and Claude listened.
Doubao has launched paid subscriptions, with three levels of pricing starting at 68 yuan, and free services will not be affected.
ByteDance applies for registration of Doubao Cloud trademark
T Morning Post | OpenAI releases its first self-developed chip; Doubao launches a paid professional version; the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television solicits opinions on new rules for micro-short dramas; Yu Hao responds to the strategic contraction of main business
On the first day of the paid version of Doubao, I: Recharge... I have to recharge again? I want to top up again!
Morning Post | The average selling price of mobile phones may rise to 3,800 yuan this year/OpenAI releases its first chip/Starting from 68 yuan, Doubao Professional Edition is officially launched
Doubao 2.1 Pro: Coding capabilities belonging to ordinary people
Krypton Evening News | Doubao Professional Edition is officially launched; it is reported that Apple will mass-produce the first foldable iPhone in late July; Huatai Securities: Supported by high overseas costs, forward aluminum prices should not be pessimistic
Qualcomm in talks to provide custom chip-design services to ByteDance, sources say
ByteDance seeks $20 billion in its largest-ever offshore loan, Bloomberg News reports
Doubao Professional Edition is officially released: the monthly fee starts at 68 yuan, and the AI charging war for productivity scenarios has begun.
Sources say Qualcomm is in talks with ByteDance to provide custom chip design services
ByteDance seeks US$20 billion in offshore loans, the company's largest ever
Doubao officially announces the launch of a professional version. Domestic models are crossing the "qualitative change point" in productivity
Doubao Professional Edition is online: access the new Doubao 2.1 Pro large model to focus on complex work task scenarios
Doubao launches paid professional version that can perform agent tasks and operate local computers
Agent tasks can be executed! Doubao officially opens the payment function. Institutions are optimistic about the accelerated evolution of Token’s business logic.
Doubao Professional Edition is officially launched
Exclusive interview with Volcano Engine Tan Dai: A good model is the most important thing for MaaS, Doubao 2.1 is considered "on the poker table"
Just now, Doubao officially launched the "professional version"
Just now, Doubao 2.1 was released! Agent spent 18 hours on his own to complete the chip design code
Supply chain information of Byte's new generation Doubao mobile phone exposed, release time may be delayed
Exclusive interview with Volcano Engine Tan Dai: The quality of the model is crucial to MaaS, Doubao 2.1 successfully "on the card table"
Krypton Evening News｜Sony Group plans to issue US dollar bonds for the first time in nearly 30 years; Oracle laid off about 21,000 employees last fiscal year; Doubao releases 2.1 Pro model
Volcano Engine Tan Dai: Doubao will still remain free, and the professional version of the office task mode is equipped with the 2.1Pro model
Doubao 2.1 Pro model released, Coding and Agent capabilities have crossed the "qualitative point of change"
Doubao releases 2.1 Pro model
ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo made a rare appearance: shrinking business breadth and focusing on AI to improve model capabilities
The daily average number of token calls in the Doubao model reaches 180 trillion
Morning Post | Doubao joins forces with Cao Cao Travel to launch taxi-hailing function/Taobao flash sale tests high-end takeaway "family banquet"/Japanese sanitary ware manufacturer TOTO plans to invest 80 billion yen in 1nm chips
ByteDance Unveils Seedance 2.5 Video Model
Behind Doubaohui’s taxi-hailing test: To become a super entrance and accelerate the commercialization process?
Byte flips the table, the cost of Doubao 2.1 is slashed by 80%, and programming is tied with Claude Opus 4.7
Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away
ByteDance sidelines listing as China's first $1 trillion valuation nears
Doubao APP gray test taxi travel
Doubao’s first 618 exam
As ByteDance goes all in on AI, are Chinese chip start-ups poised to win big?
AI large model platform selection and selection guide: Focus on Doubao + DeepSeek, a complete solution to the implementation of intelligent agent applications in 2026
Xiao K Broadcast Morning Post | ByteDance increases the purchase of domestic chips, and many popular AI hardware stocks warn of risks
ByteDance increases the purchase of domestic chips, and major Internet companies race to build a computing power moat
Doubao reaches 618, but it doesn’t want to help you place an order
ByteDance increases the purchase of domestic chips, and domestic computing power is expected to enter a booming supply and demand situation
WeChat and Alipay counterattack Doubao: turn small programs into skills
ByteDance in Talks to Buy 50,000 AI Inference Chips From China's Iluvatar CoreX
ByteDance is negotiating to purchase at least 50,000 inference GPUs from Shanghai startup Iluvatar CoreX — potentially its third domestic GPU supplier after Huawei and Cambricon — as it scales its Doubao chatbot and reduces dependence on Nvidia amid US export controls.
ByteDance in talks with China's Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI chips, sources say
Bytedance establishes technology company with registered capital of 1.6 billion yuan
If it sells for 200,000, will young people buy a car for Doubao?
AI predicts the World Cup: Doubao relies on metaphysics, Qianwen looks at data, and deepseek chooses the dark horse
Doubao’s misjudgment caused users to be poisoned. Who should be blamed for this?
The "free era" of Doubao is about to come to an end. Where will the commercialization of domestic large models go? | Night talk
Tencent raises $4.6bn in dual-currency bond offering
Tencent completed its first U.S. dollar bond issuance since 2021, raising $4.6bn in dual-currency debt to fund accelerating AI and data-center investments as it competes with Alibaba and ByteDance in China's agentic AI race.
Cyrus established a new brand, Saidou Technology, and introduced Doubao AI to start de-Huawei self-rescue
AI investment pressure is high, ByteDance’s net profit fell by more than 70% last year
Actual test of Doubao/Qianwen/Yuanbao: Can AI catch the emotions of college entrance examination students? The result is a bit surprising
It’s hard to pass the popular college entrance examination mathematics, I tried it with ChatGPT and Doubao!
“SaiDou AIVA” is launched. With Doubao’s deep empowerment, RMB 6.7 billion enters the AI car track.
Morning Post | Limited gifts at Apple press conference exposed/ByteDance: No plans to build a car/Google spends US$920 million per month to rent computing power from SpaceX
If Doubao wants to make money, it must first be Codexed
Douyin responded that "Doubao misidentified mushrooms and caused users to be poisoned"; Will WeChat launch an AI agent? Tencent people’s response丨AI Weekly
ByteDance: No plans to build a car or launch a car brand
9:01 Krypton｜Monthly active users of Doubao dropped by 6.1 million after the launch of paid services; Anthropic called on the world to slow down AI development and warned of the risk of AI "self-improvement"; Luo Yonghao resigned as executive director of Smartisan Software
WeChat opens up to smartphone AI assistants after ByteDance phone backlash
Tencent grants Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo built-in voice assistants access to WeChat for natural-language messaging and calls, pushing into the AI phone sector while also exploring AI-enabled payments via its WorkBuddy agent.
Doubao is the first to take the "AI + e-commerce + payment" path. What are its advantages and disadvantages compared with other AI payment models?
0604 Noon Channel: From free traffic to value realization, will you pay for Doubao to test the waters?
ByteDance applies to register PBTI trademark
Xiao K Broadcast Morning Post | Domestic optical fiber and cable orders are scheduled to 2027 Doubao plans to launch a professional version
DeepSeek raised 50 billion yuan and was valued at 400 billion yuan; "Doubao Professional Edition" confirmed that the free version will not improve intelligence; Ruixing and Mixue Bingcheng Agent are connected to Alibaba Qianwen | Geeks have known it for a long time
Doubao will launch a paid version, third parties said that monthly activity fell for the first time last month
ByteDance thinks its Doubao AI is worth paying for. Are China’s users buying it?
Doubao launches tiered payment, and China’s AI assistant bids farewell to the free and extensive era
Doubao Professional Edition is coming: Between free and paid, Byte faces computing power anxiety
Doubao will launch a paid function. Will large-scale models try profit models to increase sector valuations?
618 actual test: Doubao, Qianwen and other AIs have not yet mastered how to sell goods
Is the "Bean Bag Car" coming? Cyrus Blue Electric changed its name to Saidou, and ByteDance got onboard in depth
ByteDance loses key AI research leader behind Seed models
Yicai anchor said | It is reported that the paid version of Doubao will be launched in June, with a monthly fee starting at 68 yuan
Doubao Company has registered the Doubao Teacher trademark
It was revealed that Doubao was officially paid in late June; Jia Yueting and LeTV Holdings were reinstated for 2.6 billion yuan; Nvidia officially entered the personal computer chip market and challenged Intel head-on; 73 days! Yushu Technology IPO meeting
Doubao plans to launch paid content in late June, and the free model of China’s big models may turn to commercial fulfillment
8:1 Krypton丨Doubao will be officially paid for in late June; a fire broke out at the SK Hynix factory in South Korea; Yushu Technology’s IPO is over, Wang Xingxing’s net worth may exceed 14 billion
ByteDance AI Agent platform launches new version 3.0. Commercialization of AI agents is expected to enter a new turning point
Doubao will be officially paid in late June and will accelerate the opening of Douyin e-commerce.
ByteDance AI Agent platform Coze officially launches new version 3.0
Arm says ByteDance, Oracle use its data centre CPU chips
Behind Doubao’s Frequent Hot Searches: Analysis of AI Value, Illusion and Common Sense
April AI Monthly Report: Global native AI downloads reached 365 million, with downloads in mainland markets such as Doubao and Jimeng shrinking across the board
China’s ByteDance Developing New AI Chips Like Those from Nvidia Partner Groq
Exclusive: ByteDance developing custom CPU chips to support AI rollout, sources say
ByteDance Weighs Capex of As Much As $70 Billion in AI Push
Qualcomm strikes AI chip deal with TikTok owner ByteDance, Bloomberg News reports
Watch Qualcomm to Supply Chips to TikTok Owner ByteDance
ByteDance AI films shake up Cannes as TikTok owner challenges Hollywood norms
LibLib Parent Evoken Hits $2B+ Valuation in $300M Round Led by Tencent and Granite Asia
Evoken (演语科技), parent of AI image-creation platform LibLib, raised about $300 million in a Series B+ round that valued it above $2 billion, co-led by Granite Asia, Tencent, and Shunwei Capital, with Ant Group and HongShan also participating. Founded in 2023 by former ByteDance/CapCut executive Chen Mian, the company said proceeds will fund R&D and global expansion.
ByteDance raises 2026 capex by at least 25% amid AI boom, sources say
ByteDance needs to monetise its AI chatbot. But will Chinese users pay?
Doubao officially announced charges, is the era of free AI coming to an end?
China’s Alibaba, ByteDance and Zhipu AI make the cut on Time’s first AI A-list
China's cyberspace regulator warns ByteDance apps, website over AI-content labelling
ByteDance profit plunges on AI push as TikTok Shop fuels overseas surge: reports
ByteDance, Tencent step up AI talent battle amid reports of DeepSeek loss
ByteDance adds watermarking, IP checks to Seedance 2.0 ahead of global launch
EXCLUSIVE: Huawei's new AI chip finds favour with ByteDance, Alibaba which plan to place orders, sources say
ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
Senators tell ByteDance to 'immediately shut down' Seedance AI video app
ByteDance Suspends Launch of Video AI Model After Copyright Disputes With Hollywood
China's ByteDance gets access to top Nvidia AI chips, WSJ reports
Suit seeks to undo Trump approval of ByteDance TikTok US asset sale
Is there a security vulnerability in Doubao Mobile Assistant? Company response
ByteDance's AI chatbot Doubao wins China holiday battle with 100 million users
EXCLUSIVE: ByteDance valued at $550 billion in proposed share sale by General Atlantic, sources say
ByteDance Building Out Artificial Intelligence Team in US
ByteDance pledges to prevent unauthorised IP use on AI video tool after Disney threat
ByteDance's 'Gemini 3.0 Moment': Meet Seedance 2.0 and Seed2.0
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0 (video generation) and Seed2.0 (multimodal foundation model) in a coordinated release aimed at positioning the company among the world's top three AI players.
ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat
ByteDance says it will add safeguards to Seedance 2.0 following Hollywood backlash
After spooking Hollywood, ByteDance will tweak safeguards on new AI model
ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI “clip art”
ByteDance faces Hollywood backlash over AI video tool
China’s ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 AI model for 'agent era'
ByteDance releases Doubao Big Model 2.0, focusing on supporting hundreds of millions of users to perform complex tasks | AI surge
EXCLUSIVE: ByteDance in talks to sell gaming unit Moonton for more than $6 billion, sources say
ByteDance's new AI video model goes viral as China looks for second DeepSeek moment
ByteDance developing AI chip, in manufacturing talks with Samsung, sources say
China's Three Kingdoms in AI: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent Battle for Their Destiny
An in-depth analysis of how China's three tech giants are restructuring, recruiting, and repositioning for AI dominance following DeepSeek's 2025 breakthrough.
ByteDance’s new model sparks stock rally as China’s AI video battle escalates
TikTok owner ByteDance targets Alibaba with AI-led cloud drive
Is the domestic AI war entering a new stage? Doubao’s daily active users exceed 100 million. Organization: “Chatbot entrance battle” is no longer of much significance.
ByteDance pushes frequent updates to Doubao AI as privacy concerns persist
EXCLUSIVE: ByteDance, Alibaba keen to order Nvidia H200 chips after Trump green light, sources say
Doubao mobile assistant is a big hit overseas, Waiguoren: This is the first true smartphone
Doubao mobile phone will be available after it is sold out or by the end of 26
ByteDance rolls out AI voice assistant for Chinese smartphones
ByteDance’s Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World
How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot
Sora Is Not AI TikTok
OpenAI's Sora functions more like Instagram than TikTok, while Chinese AI video apps are capturing the short-video AI market Sora was supposed to define.
ByteDance expected to maintain big role in new US TikTok, sources say
ByteDance chatbot Doubao still China’s top AI app as DeepSeek loses users
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok owner ByteDance eyes valuation of over $330 billion as revenue surpasses Meta
China’s AI race heats up as SenseTime, ByteDance unveil model updates
TikTok's Parent ByteDance Quietly Builds Its AI Empire
Unlike rivals who publicize every model release, ByteDance has kept its AI strategy unusually private — but the scale of infrastructure investment and model development tells a different story.
Former ByteDance executive takes helm at Chinese video AI start-up
Former Bytedance AI general Luo Yihang resigned to become CEO of video generation unicorn Shengshu Technology
ByteDance short video service Douyin offers users quick access to AI chatbot
DeepSeek 'shared user data' with TikTok owner ByteDance
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
China’s most popular AI app gets facelift with ByteDance’s Doubao 1.5
U.S. Ban of TikTok Is Set to Deal a Major Blow to ByteDance, Its Chinese Owner (Published 2025)
Sora vs. Chinese Video Generators; ByteDance Intern Wins NeurIPS Best Paper
OpenAI's Sora launches to mixed reception while Chinese video tools Kling and Hailuo hold their ground — and a ByteDance-sued intern wins NeurIPS Best Paper, spotlighting China's research depth.
Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award
ByteDance’s Doubao is China’s top AI bot with 51 million active users
ByteDance plans $2.1 bln investment in Malaysia for AI, minister says
Former Warner Executive John Rogovin Named ByteDance General Counsel
Large model price war begins: ByteDance releases large model of bean bag, 1 yuan can buy 2 million Chinese characters
TikTok, ByteDance sue to block US law seeking sale or ban of app
EXCLUSIVE: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say
Former ByteDance executive says Chinese Communist Party tracked Hong Kong protesters via data
Ex-ByteDance employee claims China had ‘supreme access’ to all data | CNN Business
ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists (Published 2022)
TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth
Beijing took stake and board seat in key ByteDance domestic entity this year
Exclusive | ByteDance Shelved IPO Intentions After Chinese Regulators Warned About Data Security
TikTok insiders say social media company is tightly controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance
TikTok owner ByteDance is a $75 billion Chinese tech giant — here's what you need to know about it
Zhang Yiming
张一鸣
Founder
Liang Rubo
梁汝波
CEO & Co-founder
WY
Wu Yonghui
吴永晖
Head of Seed Foundational Research
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
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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
—
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
—
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
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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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256K
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Meituan
LongCat-Flash-Chat
Open
560B MoE, 27B active; open-source; 500K free tokens/day
Text
—
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128K
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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.
Embodied
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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.
Embodied
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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
Closed
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
Closed
Text-to-speech and voice cloning with full-duplex millisecond response. Available via Token Hub API.
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Unisound
U1-OCR
Closed
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
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
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.
View Official Text ↗
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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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
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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
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HBM2e | 96 GB | 4.0 TB/s |
800 GB/s
HCCS
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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
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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
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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.