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Trump and Xi discussed AI during their Washington summit. Trump rebranded 'artificial intelligence' as 'Super Intelligence' and directed U.S. diplomats to use the term, the U.S. proposed a bilateral notification mechanism for national-security-related AI incidents, and China's commerce ministry confirmed the two countries held their first formal AI dialogue.
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Tencent is China's largest social and gaming company, operating WeChat, QQ, and a vast portfolio of digital services. Its AI efforts center on the Hunyuan model family, which powers AI features across WeChat, advertising, and gaming — spanning reasoning, video generation, and multimodal capabilities.
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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
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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.
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.
Tencent's consumer AI agent app built on the open-source OpenClaw framework. Three preconfigured modes: QClaw It (recurring tasks like travel planning and tax returns), QClaw Daily (fitness, sleep, and health routines), and QClaw Up (marketing, social media, job applications). Launched China in March 2026; international beta live in Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the US across WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, and QQ.
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Tencent'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.
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.
The AI got out of control one after another, and OpenAI suspended the strongest model training; Tencent launched Crayfish in the Cloud: It has been connected to WeChat QQ; Wang Xingxing has created 3.9 million yuan of transformed mecha
Under the big factory AI race, Tencent "Lobster" withdrew
Tencent agent QClaw will be out of service to further integrate the AI office entrance
Sea agent "Xiaoyuan AI" enters Tencent WorkBuddy: find a buyer to write a development letter and talk about business
Tencent QClaw announces a shift from addition to subtraction at the AI entrance of shutdown plants
Working together with Tencent WorkBuddy, 40 + core business scenarios have improved AI efficiency by 90%
Meta agent Muse climbed to the top of the US App Store, and Tencent's micro benchmarking drove Hong Kong stocks up
Tencent Releases AI Image Model to Catch ByteDance, Alibaba
Transfer folding screen iPhone repair costs 8,000 yuan, Apple: the price is not announced; Tencent Chatterfly input method opens internal testing; Soft executives: AI training is "the largest labor theft in human history" | Geeks have long known
“The Chinese Evolution of AI CRM” 2026 Tencent Cloud City Summit Tour Review
Tencent, Ali, and Byte, why are they all "making the world" for Agent?
A Tsinghua Professor’s Stealth LLM Startup Hits $1.4 Billion Valuation
A secretive Chinese AI startup backed by Tencent and valued at $1.42 billion is reportedly preparing to release its first open-weight LLM as early as this month.
Exclusive Yao Xingchen, former head of pre-training at Tencent Mixed Yuan, joins Thinking Machines Lab
Tencent's low-key open source WorkBuddy: new projects officially open for sharing
After Tencent, Byte, Ali's "Battle" AI Office: The Landscape of the Agent Field Has Changed
Why Tencent, ByteDance and Alibaba Want to Own China’s AI Office
Asia Pacific Unique! Tencent Cloud Named IDC MarketScape Global Managed Edge Services Leader for First Time
You can "hand rub" AI products without knowing programming! Tencent's competition unveiled the shift of the threshold for OPC entrepreneurship
Bytes will release independent intelligent network disk "ADrive", Tencent network disk has been laid out first, network disk AI battle starts
Tencent-backed Enflame Triples on Debut as China Pushes for Chip Self-sufficiency
Tencent-backed Enflame triples in Shanghai debut as China AI chip bets surge
Byte, Ali, Tencent enlist at the same time: AI office enters the knockout stage
Today, Tencent received an IPO of 200 billion AI chips, a huge increase of 188%.
Byte Ali Tencent collectively turns to AI digital employees: from takeaway subsidies to 100 billion computing power burned to office agents
Alibaba’s AI ‘employees’ can now work in ByteDance, Tencent apps
Tencent, Tsinghua and Nanyang join forces to solve the problem of spatial intelligent computing power and memory fracture with Xiaoboda | ECCV 2026
Folding iPhone initial production is limited, only a few hundred per day; month-on-month growth of 379%, Tencent HY4 tops the global large model call list; Tesla reduces prices after 19 months | Geeks already know
The scale should match the wisdom spectrum! DeepSeek will expand its recruitment to 1,000 this year; after Yao Shunyu, Tian Yonglong also entered the office of Tencent's CEO/President; orders for online flash charging models are backlogged by 250,000, BYD responded
Tencent Cloud: Adjusting the DDoS Protection Billing Model
Tencent WorkBuddy launches open platform, opens Agent docking capacity
Why Tencent is swapping Bilibili equity for debt, and what AI has to do with it
Tencent Hybrid: Specially optimized Hy4 preview "Long thinking in complex tasks, excessive self verification" and other issues
AI Talent 3 Great Migration: Baidu First, Six Little Tigers Differentiation, Tencent "Teng Cage for Birds"
Tencent WorkBuddy launches open platform, AI office ecological competition upgrades
Station B further overweight AI: $700 million convertible bonds to be issued, Tencent to invest 200 million
AI Evolution Express Tencent WorkBuddy Announces Launch of Open Platform
IDC releases first-ever retail cloud share report: Tencent cloud solutions market tops
Front byte, Tencent AI core R&D Sun Peng joined Stardust Intelligence, responsible for robot reinforcement learning post-training | Frontline
Strictly restricting the output of AI violating content, Beanbag, Yuanbao, Qianqian, Wenxin were named
Tencent WorkBuddy open platform launched: the first batch of more than 100 partners to enter the market, the first Agent dock in China to open up the three-layer ecology of software, hardware and developers at the same time
Dialogue with Huang Qingyi: Valued at 7 billion yuan in the first half of its establishment, Ali Tencent has jointly invested and handed over the first self-developed model capable of "long-range execution"
Tencent’s Hy4 model gains in open-source AI rankings after ecosystem-driven training
How Hy4 preview puts Tencent back in the top tier of open-source AI
Product observation | Front byte, DJI, Tencent team entrepreneurship, aiming at AI ski track, heavy snow investment
On the day of launch, the server was squeezed, and Tencent AI finally had a hard time
DeepSeek, Zhifu, Ali, Tencent, who is the real killing line of the big model?
Tencent's big model iteratively presses the "Acceleration key" to give a target price of HK $550
Dismantling old walls, dotting new generals, grabbing ace: Tencent AI army record
After Tencent invested heavily in AI, Chaoyuan Hy4 preview handed over what answer sheets
Tencent Touts New AI Model It Claims Outperforms Z.AI, Moonshot
Tencent sends model Hy4 preview aimed at office scenario model iteration acceleration
Over 5000 queues! Yao Shunyu's "New Job" Hy4 preview is live
Tencent Hybrid Hy4 preview released, firmly in the first echelon of open source models
Hy4 preview open source The next version of the model recently launched Tencent has said that training hybrid is the primary use of capital expenditure
Eat melon! Apple held a farewell party for Cook: rare public same-sex couples; DeepSeek's revenue in the first 7 months was 10 times that of last year, and it actually lost more than 700 million; Tencent executives responded to the "Tencent is slow to do AI" question
Tang Dousheng responded to Tencent AI's "slow pace" questioning: The big model competition just ran the "first kilometer" scene is the thickest card
Byte Beanbag Work, Tencent WorkBuddy, Ali Qianqian Office Experience Note: When the "old software partner" meets the AI shock wave
Elastic and Tencent Cloud strategic cooperation upgrade, jointly build enterprise search infrastructure in the AI era
AI office triumvirate card battle: Tencent first to occupy the entrance Ali integration attack B end byte speed up push bean bag
Ma Huateng responded to Tencent's AI backwardness question, and over 30 billion capital expenditures were mainly invested in AI.
Tencent's market capitalization of HK $4 trillion "hovering": game revenue production differences, AI returns to be tested
Tencent's six-round chip company will land on the Science and Technology Innovation Board on September 2 next week
ByteDance Folds AI Tools Into Doubao Super-App to Fight Tencent
Alibaba and Tencent’s quarterly AI capital expenditure exceeds 100 billion, free cash flow is under pressure
Tencent Cloud releases AI data base TDSQL Nexa, bringing multiple AI database capabilities into the production environment
Tencent has got a ticket to the AI era
Kuaishou spins off Keling Large Model to raise independent financing. Tencent reduces its holdings in Kuaishou stock and swaps positions for AI assets.
Tencent's big model faces a major personnel earthquake: Yao Shunyu takes the helm of basic model
Tencent’s Q2 free cash flow turned negative to 13.8 billion yuan, with prepayments for AI computing power being the main reason
AI office melee, Tencent and Baidu take the lead
Why does Bank of America think Tencent AI is ushering in a "Midway moment"?
After Yushu, Zhiyuan will also go public. Who will become the Alibaba and Tencent-level giants in the embodied intelligence track?
An article explaining Tencent AI: Tencent’s most dangerous success is that AI makes the old Tencent stronger
Can QQ break through bottlenecks and gain new life in the AI era? An in-depth analysis of the AI evolution of Tencent’s national social platform
I gave Tencent’s WeChat AI agent control for 24 hours: where it excelled – and stumbled
Supply chain price increases push up cloud computing prices! Tencent Cloud announced a 5% price increase for AI computing power and other products
Tencent AI comes back: a new strategic layout to reshape the technology track
Part 2: Tencent has picked its super AI product: WorkBuddy
GPT Weekly Report | Zhipu releases the GLM-5.3 model; DeepSeek releases the official version of V4 Pro and Harness tools; Manus resumes operations as an independent company; Tencent previews the release of the larger parameter model Hy4;
Tencent at least doubled its investment in new AI products this year, and Ma Huateng publicly discussed the impact of "lobster" for the first time
Tencent’s Q2 capital expenditure in 2026 soared to 52.8 billion yuan, and AI investment caused free cash flow to turn negative for the first time
Tencent could be China's AI winner given its edge in enterprise and consumer applications: Analyst
Hong Kong Stock Market Benchmark | Changxin’s market value surpasses Tencent’s AI hardware direction and mid-term report opportunities are bright
T Morning Post｜Tencent’s profit growth rate dropped sharply in the second quarter; device-side model companies started intelligent IPO coaching in the face of the wall; Gemini App’s monthly active users exceeded 1 billion
The official version of Deepseek V4 Pro API is online, with a million tokens costing only 6 yuan; Tencent plans to release a large model of HY4 in the near future; it is revealed that iPhone 18 will increase in price by at least 2,000 yuan | Geeks would have known earlier
Capital expenditure soared to 52.78 billion! Looking at Tencent’s AI chess game from its Q2 financial report
Tencent’s AI Innovation Pace in Question After Earnings
Tencent Faces AI Questions After Rivals Rush Ahead With Breakthroughs
Significantly increase computing power procurement! Has Tencent seen the dawn of AI monetization?
Chinese tech giant Tencent posts revenue beat on accelerating games sales, AI-driven ads
Tencent: AI is spreading money with full power? There is still a crucial step left in "returning a child to a new height"
Tencent Sustains Revenue Growth to Bankroll Costly AI Investment
Ex-Alibaba AI Architect Wins Tencent, HSG Backing for New Lab
Invest in gambling for the long term! Tencent’s AI strategy lowers short-term profit margins, and investment banks’ target prices diverge significantly
DeepSeek recruits civil engineers; Tencent participates in investment! Lin Junyang officially announced his new company late at night: to build the next generation of AI agents; the winning numbers of Yushu Technology were released: a total of 19,414丨Leifeng Morning News
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build AI agents
Junyang Lin, the former lead of Alibaba's Qwen AI models, confirmed he has started a new Shanghai-based AI company, Pragmatik Labs, focused on digital and physical AI agents; the startup reportedly hit a $2 billion valuation in June with backing from Tencent and HSG.
Watch Tencent Earnings a Litmus Test for China's AI Sector | The China Show | 8/12/2026
Just now, Lin Junyang, the former head of Qianwen, has returned: the new company is targeting Agent, and Tencent is following the investment
Tencent AI Spending Key After Magnificent 7 Rout
Tencent ramps up overseas AI push with wider roll-out of flagship Hy3 model
Tencent Hunyuan releases latest speech recognition model Hy ASR 3.0 preview
Tencent's AI virtual cell algorithm is published in the main magazine of "Cell", which is the first time in China
Tencent Cloud releases intelligent data lake computing AI DLC, opening up the entire process from data processing to Agent application
Tencent Hunyuan open source AngelSpec
The Dark Side of the Moon opens up the Kimi K3 model with 2.8 trillion parameters; NVIDIA takes the lead in establishing the Open and Secure AI Alliance; QQ Pets announces its return and accesses the Hunyuan large model | Geeks Already Know
Moonshot, DeepSeek and chips: a guide to Tencent’s growing AI empire
Tencent Cloud: Starting from July 27, TDSQL-C MySQL version product architecture 2.0 will be officially commercialized and billed.
Conversation with Li Yutao, Vice President of Tencent Cloud: AI enters World Cup live broadcast production on a large scale Tencent Cloud card slot multi-modal Harness
Conversation with Lin Songtao, Vice President of Tencent: Intent is replacing the entrance, and the Agent needs a "cerebellum"
Tencent Hunyuan integrates and establishes basic model department with Yao Shunyu at the helm
Tencent’s Hunyuan organizational structure has been upgraded, merging large language models and multi-modal teams to accelerate model development
Morning Post | Ji Krypton responds to cross-border self-driving cars being locked/revealed that Apple’s Apple Store app will launch “AI shopping assistant”/Liang Wenfeng: DeepSeek does not pursue becoming the next Byte or Tencent
Exclusive｜Hu Han, the head of Hunyuan Multimodal Understanding, resigned to start a business. The original team may focus on world models
Tencent AI creative agent Miora is fully launched
Tencent, Alibaba, Byte, battle against AI office
Tencent Cloud: Will deploy localized computing power and NPO super nodes on a large scale
Tencent Smart Retail, Tencent Maps and Chinagoods platform jointly create “Chinagoods AI Navigation” online
Tencent Hunyuan launches intelligent Hyra-1.0
OpenAI executives blasted Kimi K3: China's open source is slowdown and will inhibit capital investment; Tencent plans to acquire Israeli casual mobile game manufacturers for more than 10 billion; DeepSeek is exposed to the high salary supporting scoring mechanism
The efficiency of finding a store has increased by nearly 70%! Tencent Maps × Chinagoods platform jointly creates AI navigation to accompany you to visit Yiwu market
Report: Tencent WorkBuddy’s monthly visits exceeded 20 million in the domestic PC-side AI native office smart phone market in June
Tencent Cloud ADP 4.0 overseas version released, bringing enterprise-level intelligence to the global market | Forefront
How Chinese tech giants from Ant to Tencent use AI agents to win over enterprise clients
Tencent upgrades and releases embodied intelligence full-stack solution, ADP 4.0 overseas version officially launched
Tencent Cloud smart hardware ecosystem accelerates, the first WorkBuddy AI memory glasses are released
Tencent’s intelligent agents make a concentrated appearance at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference
Tencent Cloud SkillPay goes online
Krypton Evening News｜IDC: Baidu Intelligent Cloud continues to rank first in China's financial large model market share; Tencent Cloud and RoboScience machine science have reached a strategic cooperation; the Ministry of Commerce responded to promote progress in solving Nexperia issues
Tencent Cloud and RoboScience Machine Science Reach Strategic Cooperation
One week after it went online, the total call volume of Tencent Hunyuan’s large model Hy3 increased by more than 68 times.
DeepSeek’s first round of financing landed, Tencent, CATL, and National Artificial Intelligence Industry Fund all invested in it
Tencent Cloud: Billing items for MetaInsight intelligent retrieval product have been significantly reduced in price
13.5 billion pickup Manus, Tencent AI crazy "sweep"
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.
Tencent’s heavy position, Cloud Leopard Intelligence is going to IPO
GPT Weekly Report｜MiniMax completed HK$16 billion in financing; the number of calls for Tencent’s new model Hy3 surged; U.S. lawmakers considered restricting U.S. companies from using Chinese models; the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reminded Claude Code of security backdoor risks
From "can't sit at the main table" to "hashrate squeeze" Tencent AI back to the table?
Tencent reduced its holdings in Kuaishou and subscribed for shares in Keling AI within four days, adjusting its position structure
Tencent Health and Pfizer China reach strategic cooperation in AI medical care
Tencent WeChat AI Agent Shows Promise in Super-App Fight: Review
A hands-on review of Tencent's Xiaowei AI agent inside WeChat found early promise as the company works to restore its reputation as a tech innovator.
AI mini program growth plan launches new Hunyuan Hy3
Hong Kong Stock Morning Post｜Tencent reduced its holdings in Kuaishou and cashed out at a maximum of about US$1.6 billion. The semiconductor sector of the US stock market exploded again overnight
Testing the official version of Tencent Hy3, this time it finally caught up with the "second half of AI"
Tencent releases the official version of Hunyuan 3 model, Yuanbao accesses and launches free Agent function
Tencent Hunyuan Hy3 officially released
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.
Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu are on the same stage in history, and Kuaishou Keling AI has completed US$3 billion in financing
Tencent Cloud: The official version of DeepSeek-V4 "directly supplied from the original factory" model is scheduled to be launched in mid-July
Alibaba, Tencent back Kuaishou's Kling AI in $2.8 billion fundraise
Kuaishou Keling AI valuation reaches US$15 billion in financing, with participation from Tencent, Alibaba Cloud and Baidu
Alibaba Cloud and Tencent have both invested. The "little giant" of Shanghai Chip is rushing to the Science and Technology Innovation Board. A large fund will hold shares in the second phase and plans to raise 3 billion.
Tencent Cloud: From August 1, the free quota of "Cloud Native Construction-GPU" and "Cloud Native Development-GPU" will be cancelled.
Kuaishou Keling AI spin-off valuation drops to US$15 billion, Tencent, Alibaba and Sequoia may lead investment
Tencent Cloud announces delisting arrangements for Cloud Mate products
IDC: Tencent Cloud ranks first in China’s CDP market
US media: Tencent invests US$20 million in Lin Junyang AI company
AI predicts World Cup group stage: Hunyuan ranks first, Qianwen DeepSeek ties
GAIR Paper 107｜Universities jointly released GameCraft-Bench with Tencent: AI can develop games end-to-end, and 40% of Claude Opus has reached playable level
Tencent Cloud helps Indonesia’s XLSMART achieve full-link AI cloud transformation
Tencent Cloud EdgeOne Makers tops Product Hunt daily list
Instead of relying on a single hot product to earn dividends, China’s AI application has a 300 million ARR unicorn for the first time! Tencent Shunwei Sequoia continues to increase investment
Tencent Enterprise WeChat will launch the “Dayuan” AI agent, which has now entered the internal testing stage
Tencent bought half of the AI industry
US $2 billion repurchase of Meta shares, Tencent leads Chinese capital to recapture GM AI benchmark Manus
GAIR Paper 103｜Shanghai Jiaotong University and Tencent propose token-level illusion optimization to achieve accurate elimination of large model illusions
Tencent tests AI assistant in China's most popular app as it looks to catch up with rivals
Tencent began small-scale testing of an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, letting users chat, message friends, and launch mini-programs by voice or text.
Tencent veteran + big factory’s post-2000 cutting-edge, Ma Shangfei wants to do more than just AI Coding
Mobile phone manufacturers are about to enter the gimbal camera market! DJI responded: welcome healthy competition; Tencent participated in Lin Junyang AI company's investment of 20 million US dollars; Suiyuan Technology IPO meeting, the four GPU tigers gathered in the capital market
Tencent Backs Former Alibaba Qwen Lead's New AI Lab at $2 Billion Valuation
Former Alibaba Qwen architect Lin Junyang closes first round at a $2B post-money valuation; Gao Rong VC and Sequoia China each contributed $100M, Tencent added $20M; lab targets embodied intelligence and world models.
In the second half of Tencent AI, the intelligent agent acceleration scenario is implemented
Tencent Yuanbao accesses ima knowledge base
Xunling Intelligence and Tencent Cloud reach strategic cooperation
Tencent's AI Bet Is Not a Chatbot. It Is WeChat as an Action Layer
Tencent Cloud: Lowers the prices of MiniMax-M3 and Hy-MT2-Pro models
Tencent Cloud escorts the live broadcast of the World Cup in 16 countries and regions around the world, and AI technology is applied on a large scale in the World Cup for the first time
Tencent Cloud: DatabaseClaw officially launches commercial billing
Tencent Hunyuan AI Infra’s new open source: HPC-Ops inference core operators fully upgraded
Tencent Cloud and Asus Computer reach strategic cooperation
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.
The first batch of Agent employees are on duty, and Tencent Cloud wants to help companies settle them in
He Aiweiwu appeared at the Tencent Cloud AI Industry Application Conference, delved into large-scale education models, and created the next generation of learning agents.
Tuhu Automobile and Tencent reach cooperation in AI Agent field
Tencent wants enterprises to open up AI in only one way
Tencent announces the new layout of WeChat AI ecosystem, and Tongcheng Travel becomes the first batch of OTAs to access it
Why is AI a “long-term game” for Tencent?
Actual test of Doubao/Qianwen/Yuanbao: Can AI catch the emotions of college entrance examination students? The result is a bit surprising
Tencent Tang Daosheng evaluates Yao Shunyu, Hunyuan 3 and Yuanbao
Tencent announced the latest progress in WeChat’s AI ecological layout, with JD joining the first batch of internal testing teams
Tencent Cloud upgrades and releases AI native marketing cloud and cloud Mall 2.0 products
JD.com and Tencent will reach an important cooperation on AI Agent
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
Morning Post | Huang Renxun’s first stop during his visit to Korea was T1 Internet Cafe/Yao Shunyu talked about the second half of Tencent AI/The three major operators reminded that the college entrance examination test center will block the signal, and the surrounding area may not be able to access the Internet
Tencent Cloud releases WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition
Nationstar Aerospace and Tencent Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement for the "Star Computing" project to jointly lead the new ecosystem of AI cloud services
Tencent Conference has upgraded many AI functions, and the monthly usage time of Yuanbao Minutes has increased nearly five times.
Just now, Yao Shunyu showed up! Public response to Tencent AI falling behind?
Tencent Cloud TokenHub: Doubling for many consecutive months, daily token consumption jumps to 5 trillion
Tencent launches the first efficient agent toolset, covering more than 20 vertical scenario agents
Tencent executive: Most of Tencent’s code will be generated by AI this year
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.
China poaches more AI talent from the U.S. as it eyes the next ‘super-app’
Former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu, now chief AI scientist at Tencent, said Friday he aims to develop AGI. His ambitions come as other Chinese tech companies have hired from Silicon Valley.
Krypton Evening News | OpenAI CFO talks about the company's AI equipment: it will be officially released before the end of this year; Tencent customer service responded to cooperation with Huawei, Xiaomi, etc.; Hong Kong launched the first productivity-level super intelligence
8:01 Krypton丨Tencent said it was unable to determine the launch time of WeChat AI intelligent agent; Wenjie responded to the M9 accident in Taizhou, Zhejiang; Musk's personal wealth will exceed one trillion US dollars
Valuation of 400 billion, Tencent and CATL entering the game? DeepSeek was revealed to have launched China’s largest AI financing round
Tencent AI Industry Application Conference is coming soon, and a series of new intelligent application products will be released soon.
Will WeChat launch an AI agent? Tencent people responded
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Pony Ma
马化腾
Co-founder & CEO
Martin Lau
刘炽平
President
Yao Shunyu
姚顺宇
Chief AI Scientist
Investment Portfolio
Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
Series B4 · 2024-08
¥1,228.81M
Moonshot AI
Series B · 2024-08Series C · 2025-12Series C+ · 2026-02
>$300M + $500M + >$700M
Baichuan AI
Series A1 · 2023-10Series A · 2024-07
$300M + $691M (~RMB 5B)
01.AI
Series A · 2023-11
$300M
Infinigence AI
Angel · 2023-11
Undisclosed
Moore Threads
Series A · 2021-11
¥2B
Momenta
Series C · 2021
Undisclosed
Manus (Butterfly Effect)
Series B · 2025-04
$75M
AGIBot
Series B · 2025-03
Undisclosed
Pragmatik Labs
Seed · 2026-06
$220M
Reference Table
All Models
Compare models across all 43 Chinese AI companies
Company ↕
Model ↕
Type ↕
AA Score ↕
Released ▼
Context ↕
Input ↕
Output ↕
Alibaba
Ovis-VL-Embedding-2B
Open
Compact embedding model init. from Qwen3.5-2B for constrained serving; Apache 2.0
Multimodal
—
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
—
2026-09-25
1M
$0.30/1M tokens
$1.20/1M tokens
AlibabaUniversal text/image/doc/video/audio embedding model (Alibaba ATH MaaS), init. from Qwen2.5-Omni-3B; Apache 2.0, weights open-sourcing soon
Multimodal
—
2026-09-23
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Ant Group6B text-rich design image model, native RGBA output, #1 open-weight model on Artificial Analysis UI/UX leaderboard; MIT license. Flagged by @AdinaYakup — not on tracked company list
Image Gen
2026-09-22
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Tencent
Hy Image 3.5 Preview
Closed
Professional image-gen preview, 30% higher human-eval win rate vs Hy Image 3.0; on par with Seedream 5.0 Pro; API-only, $0.024/image
Image Gen
2026-09-22
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Xiaomi
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Open
309B/15B MoE high-throughput omnimodal variant; MIT license
Multimodal
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
2026-06
256K
$0.2/1M tokens
$1.15/1M tokens
Meituan
LongCat-2.0
Open
1.6T para + MoE; trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese chips; next-gen flagship
Text
19/100
2026-06
1M
$0.75/1M tokens
$2.95/1M tokens
XPeng
VLA 2.0
Closed
Second-generation vision-language-action world model — deliberative reasoning, controllable generation, and long-horizon forecasting. Runs on 4 self-developed Turing AI chips (~3,000 TOPS effective) in the Robotaxi platform.
Embodied
2026-06
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Alibaba
Qwen3.7-Max
Closed
Flagship closed-source reasoning model. Ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (29/100) out of 218 models at release. 1M token context window. Text-only (no multimodal). Architecture reportedly dual-72B. Extended thinking / chain-of-thought mode. Released May 19, 2026.
Text
29/100
2026-05
1M
$2.50/1M tokens
$7.50/1M tokens
Baidu
ERNIE 5.1
Closed
MoE successor to ERNIE 5.0. ~⅓ total params, ~½ active params, 6% of pre-training cost. AIME 2026: 99.6% with tool use (#2 globally). Arena Search: 1,223 (#4 global, #1 China). Released May 9, 2026.
Text
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2026-05
128K
$0.59/1M tokens
$2.65/1M tokens
Baichuan AI
Baichuan-M4
Closed
Medical AI flagship (May 2026). World #1 on HealthBench, HealthBench Hard & HealthBench Professional. Hallucination rate 3.3% — industry low via factuality-aware RL. Surpasses GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, DeepSeek-V4-Pro. Powers 百小医 AI family doctor.
Text
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2026-05
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ModelBest
MiniCPM-V 4.6
Open
1.3B multimodal model (SigLip2 + Qwen3.5-0.8B). 260K token context. Runs on consumer phones (iOS/Android/HarmonyOS). Launched May 2026.
Multimodal
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2026-05
260K
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ModelBest
MiniCPM5-1B
Open
1B language model with 128K token context. SOTA on-device LLM at its size class. Apache 2.0.
Text
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2026-05
128K
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
GLM-5.1
Open
754B flagship — top scores on AIME 2026 (95.3) and GPQA-Diamond (86.2); strong agentic and coding ability
Text
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2026-04
200K
$0.98/1M tokens
$3.08/1M tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.7
Open
229B MoE; self-evolving agent — 30% perf gain over 100+ rounds; agent teams, complex skills, 24/7 background agents
Agent
2026-04
1M tokens
$0.28/1M tokens
$1.20/1M tokens
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.6
Open
1T MoE (32B active), 256K ctx; native multimodal agentic — top SWE-Bench (80.2) and AIME 2026 (96.4)
Multimodal
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2026-04
256K
$0.60/1M tokens
$2.50/1M tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Open
Flagship MoE: 1.6T total / 49B active params, 1M context, FP4+FP8 precision, built-in Think/Non-Think reasoning modes. Codeforces rating 3206.
Text
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2026-04
1M
$0.435/1M tokens
$0.87/1M tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Open
Efficient MoE: 284B total / 13B active params, 1M context. Same architecture as V4-Pro at far lower compute cost. Codeforces 2816.
Text
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2026-04
1M
$0.14/1M tokens
$0.28/1M tokens
Baidu
ERNIE-Image
Open
8B single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT). Best text rendering in open source (LongTextBench: 0.9733). Up to 4K output. Apache 2.0. Released Apr 15, 2026.
Image Gen
2026-04
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$0.03/image
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Ant Group
Ring-2.6-1T
Open
1T total params, ~63B active per token; adaptive reasoning via high / xhigh modes; up to 66K output tokens; open weights (MIT); released May 8 2026; free tier available on OpenRouter
Text
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2026-04
262K
$0.075/1M tokens
$0.625/1M tokens
Ant Group
Ling-2.6-1T
Open
1T total params, ~63B active per token; fast thinking approach cuts token cost to ~1/4 of comparable models; open weights (MIT); released Apr 23 2026; free tier available on OpenRouter via Novita AI
Text
17/100
2026-04
262K
$0.075/1M tokens
$0.625/1M tokens
Ant Group
Ling-2.6-flash
Open
Efficient sparse MoE: 104B total / 7.4B active, hybrid linear attention. 340 tokens/s on 4× H20. Strong agent and tool-use performance.
Text
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2026-04
262K
$0.10/1M tokens
$0.30/1M tokens
Tencent
Hy3-preview
Closed
295B MoE (21B active); reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. Via Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Released Apr 23, 2026.
Text
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2026-04
256K
¥1.2/1M tokens
¥4.0/1M tokens
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
Open
1.02T MoE, 42B active; KV-cache reduced ~7×; latest generation
Text
26/100
2026-04
1M
$0.0036/1M tokens
$0.087/1M tokens
AGIBot
Genie Operator-2 (GO-2)
Closed
AGIBot's new-generation embodied foundation model, powering autonomous manipulation and locomotion across its AGIBOT A2 and X2 robot lines.
Embodied
2026-04
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Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Pro
Closed
1T+ MoE, 42B active; hybrid attention; 1M token context
Text
—
2026-03
1M
$0.0036/1M tokens
$0.087/1M tokens
Unitree Robotics
UnifoLM-VLA-0
Open
Vision-Language-Action model enabling the G1 humanoid to autonomously perform household tasks from natural language commands. Runs onboard the robot. Open-sourced March 2026 — Unitree's first AI model release.
Embodied
2026-03
N/A
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Kunlun Tech
SkyReels V4
Closed
Audio-visual creation model (Mar 2026). Dual-stream architecture; #1 globally on Text-to-Video (With Audio) and Image-to-Video (With Audio) tracks at release. Generates clips up to 3 minutes.
Video Gen
2026-03
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Kunlun Tech
Mureka V9
Closed
Music generation model (Mar 2026). Paragraph-level text control; enhanced mixing quality, vocal expression, and style richness.
Audio
2026-03
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Kunlun Tech
Matrix-Game 3.0
Closed
Physics-simulation interactive world model (Mar 2026). 5B params; 720P @ 40FPS; covers 1,000+ scenarios with Unreal Engine data. Industrial-grade real-time interactivity.
Text
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2026-03
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ByteDance
Seed2.0 Pro
Closed
ByteDance's flagship multimodal model. Understands text, image, and video. Ranks #3 globally on LMSYS Vision Arena and #6 on overall text arena. AIME 2025: 98.3, SWE-bench: 76.5%.
Multimodal
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2026-02
272K
$0.47/1M tokens
$2.37/1M tokens
ByteDance
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Closed
Unified multimodal image generation with chain-of-thought visual reasoning, real-time web search, and native editing. Supports up to 14 reference images. Up to 4K output at 2048×2048.
Image Gen
2026-02
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$0.026/image
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ByteDance
Seedance 2.0
Closed
Unified audio-video joint generation model. Accepts text, image, video, and audio inputs; outputs native 2K video (up to 15s) with synchronized audio. 30% faster than Seedance 1.5 Pro.
Video Gen
2026-02
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Alibaba
Qwen3.5
Open
Unified vision-language MoE family. Flagship: 35B-A3B (35B total / 3B active) and 397B-A17B. Thinking mode on by default. Supports image, video, text input. 201 languages. Apache 2.0.
Multimodal
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2026-02
262K (1M w/ YaRN)
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Alibaba
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Open
80B total / 3B active MoE coding agent. Excels at long-horizon agentic tasks, tool use, and IDE integration (Claude Code, Cline, Qwen Code). No thinking mode.
Code
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2026-02
256K
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
GLM-5
Open
754B MoE (40B active); 28.5T token pre-training; top-tier SWE-bench score of 77.8
Text
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2026-02
200K
$1.40/1M tokens
$4.40/1M tokens
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.5
Open
229B; SOTA SWE-Bench (80.2); 80% of MiniMax's own code generated by this model; M2.5-Lightning at 100 tok/s
Agent
2026-02
1M tokens
$0.30–$1.00/hr
$0.30–$1.00/hr
Baidu
ERNIE 5.0
Closed
2.4 trillion parameter unified multimodal (text + image + video + audio) in a single autoregressive framework. LMArena Text: 1,460 (#1 China, #8 global); Vision: 1,226 (#1 China, #8 global). Released Feb 6, 2026.
Multimodal
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2026-02
128K
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Ant Group
LingBot-VLA
Open
Open-source VLA foundation model trained on ~20,000 hours of real-world dual-arm robot data across 9 embodiments
Embodied
2026-02
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Ant Group
Ring-2.5-1T
Open
World's first open-source 1T-parameter thinking model. Gold medal level at IMO 2025 (35/42 pts) and CMO 2025 (105/126). 3× throughput for sequences >32K.
Text
—
2026-02
256K
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Ant Group
Ming-flash-omni-2.0
Open
Any-to-any omni model: accepts image, text, video, and audio; outputs image, text, and audio. 100B total / 6B active MoE. Supports zero-shot voice cloning and image generation/editing.
Multimodal
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2026-02
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Ant Group
LLaDA-2.1-flash
Open
Novel diffusion-based language model — not autoregressive. 103B params. Generates text by iterative token editing rather than left-to-right decoding. 102K monthly downloads.
Multimodal
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2026-02
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Baichuan AI
Baichuan-M3
Open
235B medical model (Feb 2026) built on Qwen3 architecture. Former world #1 on HealthBench. Hallucination rate 3.5%. Outperforms human doctors in diagnostic accuracy. 48GB VRAM with W4 quantization.
Text
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2026-02
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JD.com
JoyAI-LLM-Flash
Open
Open-sourced lightweight model — 4.8B total / 3B active params, pretrained on 20T text tokens. Released on HuggingFace as part of JD's open-source push.
Text
—
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
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2025-06
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RedNote (Xiaohongshu)
dots.llm1
Open
RedNote's first open-source LLM — 142B total / 14B active params (MoE), pretrained on 11.2T high-quality tokens with no synthetic data. Performance comparable to Alibaba's Qwen2.5-72B.
Text
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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
—
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.
Text
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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.
Audio
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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.
Audio
—
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Unisound
U1-OCR
Closed
Industrial-grade document intelligence model for OCR and document understanding. Launched February 2026.
Multimodal
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Disclosed, 2026 YTD
Funding & Markets
Private funding rounds and public market data for China's leading AI companies
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Companies tracked
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~$34.9B
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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.
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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
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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.
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China AI Regulation
A timeline of generative AI rules, algorithm filing requirements, model approval lists, and data law touchpoints — with links to original texts
2026
Sep
Extends the August deployment-side guide upstream to agent system development. Together the two documents suggest TC260 is building a build-and-run pair for agents ahead of any binding rule.
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2026
Sep
Four documents released together, the start of a general-plus-sector series. The General Principles apply across all industries; the other three give sector-specific security practice guidance for education, health, and broadcasting/online audiovisual. Drafting units include CESI, the NRTA research academy, NHC and MOE information centers.
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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
|
HBM2e | 64 GB | 2.0 TB/s |
392 GB/s
HCCS 3.0
|
400 W | SMIC N+2 | Production | Most-deployed domestic training chip. Used at Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent. |
| Huawei ↗ | Ascend 910C |
Training |
800 TFLOPS
FP16
|
HBM2e | 96 GB | 4.0 TB/s |
800 GB/s
HCCS
|
900 W | SMIC N+2 | Production | Dual-die upgrade to 910B. Powers the Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD (300 PFLOPS). |
| 🔒 18 more accelerators — paid subscribers only | |||||||||||
Specs marked ~ are estimates from third-party analysis. Click any column header to sort. Interconnect Bandwidth = chip-to-chip fabric bandwidth per chip (bidirectional).
| Cluster / Supernode | Operator | Chip | Chip Count | Total Compute | Interconnect Fabric | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD (CloudMatrix 384) |
Huawei Cloud | Ascend 910C | 384 |
300 PFLOPS
FP16
|
All-optical (OXC) | Huawei's current-generation supernode. Uses optical circuit switching (OXC) for low-latency inter-chip communication. Announced April 2025 as a full-stack domestic alternative to Nvidia GB200 NVL72. |
Atlas 950 SuperPoD |
Huawei Cloud | Ascend 950 | 8,192 |
8 EFLOPS
FP8
|
16.3 PB/s aggregate | Next-generation supernode targeting 2026 delivery. 1,152 TB total memory. Full liquid cooling. Footprint larger than two basketball courts. Would represent a major leap in domestic training capacity if delivered at spec. |
| 🔒 3 more clusters — paid subscribers only | ||||||
Cluster sizes and compute figures are from official announcements or credible press reports.
| Company | Product | Type | Capacity | Bandwidth | Process | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CXMT ↗ | DDR5 |
DDR | 16–32 Gb dies | ~6400 MT/s | ~16nm (G4) | Production | CXMT's latest-generation DDR5, unveiled Nov 2025 — its push into the high-end DRAM market against Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. |
| CXMT ↗ | LPDDR5X |
LPDDR | Mobile | ~8533 MT/s | ~16nm | Production | Low-power mobile DRAM for smartphones and edge/AI devices. |
| 🔒 2 more memory chips — paid subscribers only | |||||||
DRAM, HBM, and NAND from Chinese memory makers. Specs marked ~ are estimates from third-party analysis or press reports.