| Alibaba |
ABot suite Closed |
embodied |
2026-07-22 |
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Amap's full-stack embodied AI upgrade: five models for navigation, manipulation, reasoning, memory, and motion control; claims SOTA on 17 benchmarks |
| Alibaba |
Qwen3.8-Max (Preview) Closed |
multimodal |
2026-07-19 |
1M |
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2.4T-param MoE preview shown at WAIC; Alibaba claims second only to Claude Fable 5; open weights promised later |
| Tencent |
Hy-Embodied-VLA-0.5 Open |
embodied |
2026-07-19 |
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Vision-language-action model trained on 10,000+ hours of data, deployable across different robot platforms |
| Tencent |
Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0 Open |
embodied |
2026-07-19 |
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Perception model for robots; best-in-class on 19 of 38 benchmarks at 1/10th the compute of Tencent's prior flagship |
| Tencent |
Hy-Embodied-RxBrain-1.0 Open |
embodied |
2026-07-19 |
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Reasoning engine for embodied cognition: joint language-visual reasoning, world-state prediction, subgoal planning; ships with open RxBrain-Bench |
| SenseTime |
SenseNova-U1 Pro Closed |
multimodal |
2026-07-19 |
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Unifies seeing, generating, acting via NEO-unify architecture; native 8K output; debuted at WAIC 2026 |
| ModelBest |
MiniCPM-RobotTrack Open |
embodied |
2026-07-17 |
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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 |
| ModelBest |
MiniCPM-RobotManip Open |
embodied |
2026-07-17 |
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1.5B on-device VLA model for robot manipulation, unveiled at WAIC 2026; outperforms larger models like π0.5 and Qwen-VLA per ModelBest |
| WeRide |
WITT Closed |
embodied |
2026-07-17 |
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Physical AI foundation model built on Atomic Physical Facts; claims 98% lower token cost and 200x data efficiency vs general models (self-reported, unverified) |
| Unisound |
U2-Med Closed |
multimodal |
2026-07-17 |
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First tri-medical LLM spanning healthcare, insurance and pharma; built on U2 foundation model |
| Moonshot AI |
Kimi K3 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-07-16 |
1M |
$3.00/1M tokens |
$15.00/1M tokens |
Flagship model, 2.8T total parameters, strong coding and agent capabilities, open weights by July 27 |
| Ant Group |
LingBot-VA 2.0 Open |
Embodied |
2026-07-11 |
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Industry-first embodied-native causal video-action model; dual-stream mixture-of-transformers architecture, unifies frame prediction and policy execution from scratch |
| Ant Group |
LingBot-World 2.0 Open |
Embodied |
2026-07-09 |
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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 |
| Alibaba |
RynnWorld-4D Open |
Embodied |
2026-07-08 |
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DAMO Academy release; generates robot's predicted future as joint RGB + depth + optical-flow stream for manipulation planning, not just 2D video |
| Ant Group |
LingBot-VLA 2.0 Open |
Embodied |
2026-07-08 |
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6B open-source cross-embodiment model; trained on 60K hrs real-world data across 20 robot morphologies from 17 manufacturers |
| Ant Group |
LingBot-Vision Open |
Embodied |
2026-07-07 |
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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 |
| Ant Group |
LingBot-Depth 2.0 Closed |
Embodied |
2026-07-07 |
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Next-gen monocular depth model paired with LingBot-Vision; claims to roughly halve robotic depth-estimation error in challenging scenarios |
| Tencent |
Hy3 (Hunyuan 3.0) Open |
Text |
2026-07-07 |
256K |
$0.18/1M tokens |
$0.60/1M tokens |
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 |
| ByteDance |
Seedance 2.5 Closed |
Video Gen |
2026-07-03 |
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30-second native 4K video in one continuous pass (no stitching); accepts up to 50 multimodal reference inputs; joint audio-video generation |
| Shengshu Technology |
Vidu S1 Closed |
Video Gen |
2026-07-03 |
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Real-time interactive video model with voice-controlled avatars; 540p up to 42fps; runs on consumer-grade GPUs instead of server clusters |
| Zhipu AI (Z.ai) |
GLM-5.2 Open |
Text |
2026-06-01 |
1M |
$1.40/1M tokens |
$4.40/1M tokens |
753B params; Rolled out to all GLM Coding Plan tiers (Lite/Pro/Max/Team); standalone API + MIT open weights |
| MiniMax |
MiniMax M3 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-06 |
1M |
$0.30/1M tokens |
$1.20/1M tokens |
428B params (23B active); 1-million-token context window; novel attention mechanism called MSA; native multimodality |
| Moonshot AI |
Kimi-K2.7-Code Open |
Code |
2026-06 |
256K |
$0.95/1M tokens |
$4.00/1M tokens |
1T total params / 32B active, 384 experts, ~30% lower reasoning-token usage vs K2.6 |
| StepFun |
Step 3.7 Flash Open |
Multimodal |
2026-06 |
256K |
$0.2/1M tokens |
$1.15/1M tokens |
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 |
| Meituan |
LongCat-2.0 Open |
Text |
2026-06 |
1M |
$0.75/1M tokens |
$2.95/1M tokens |
1.6T para + MoE; trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese chips; next-gen flagship |
| XPeng |
VLA 2.0 Closed |
Embodied |
2026-06 |
— |
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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. |
| Alibaba |
Qwen3.7-Max Closed |
Text |
2026-05 |
1M |
$2.50/1M tokens |
$7.50/1M tokens |
Flagship closed-source reasoning model. Ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (57/100) out of 218 models at release. 1M token context window. Text-only (no multimodal). Architecture reportedly dual-72B. Extended thinking / chain-of-thought mode. Released May 19, 2026. |
| Baidu |
ERNIE 5.1 Closed |
Text |
2026-05 |
128K |
$0.59/1M tokens |
$2.65/1M tokens |
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. |
| Baichuan AI |
Baichuan-M4 Closed |
Text |
2026-05 |
— |
|
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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. |
| ModelBest |
MiniCPM-V 4.6 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-05 |
260K |
|
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1.3B multimodal model (SigLip2 + Qwen3.5-0.8B). 260K token context. Runs on consumer phones (iOS/Android/HarmonyOS). Launched May 2026. |
| ModelBest |
MiniCPM5-1B Open |
Text |
2026-05 |
128K |
|
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1B language model with 128K token context. SOTA on-device LLM at its size class. Apache 2.0. |
| Zhipu AI (Z.ai) |
GLM-5.1 Open |
Text |
2026-04 |
200K |
$0.98/1M tokens |
$3.08/1M tokens |
754B flagship — top scores on AIME 2026 (95.3) and GPQA-Diamond (86.2); strong agentic and coding ability |
| MiniMax |
MiniMax-M2.7 Open |
Agent |
2026-04 |
1M tokens |
$0.28/1M tokens |
$1.20/1M tokens |
229B MoE; self-evolving agent — 30% perf gain over 100+ rounds; agent teams, complex skills, 24/7 background agents |
| Moonshot AI |
Kimi K2.6 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-04 |
256K |
$0.60/1M tokens |
$2.50/1M tokens |
1T MoE (32B active), 256K ctx; native multimodal agentic — top SWE-Bench (80.2) and AIME 2026 (96.4) |
| DeepSeek |
DeepSeek-V4-Pro Open |
Text |
2026-04 |
1M |
$0.435/1M tokens |
$0.87/1M tokens |
Flagship MoE: 1.6T total / 49B active params, 1M context, FP4+FP8 precision, built-in Think/Non-Think reasoning modes. Codeforces rating 3206. |
| DeepSeek |
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Open |
Text |
2026-04 |
1M |
$0.14/1M tokens |
$0.28/1M tokens |
Efficient MoE: 284B total / 13B active params, 1M context. Same architecture as V4-Pro at far lower compute cost. Codeforces 2816. |
| Baidu |
ERNIE-Image Open |
Image Gen |
2026-04 |
— |
$0.03/image |
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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. |
| Ant Group |
Ring-2.6-1T Open |
Reasoning |
2026-04 |
262K |
$0.075/1M tokens |
$0.625/1M tokens |
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 |
| Ant Group |
Ling-2.6-1T Open |
Text |
2026-04 |
262K |
$0.075/1M tokens |
$0.625/1M tokens |
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 |
| Ant Group |
Ling-2.6-flash Open |
Text |
2026-04 |
262K |
$0.10/1M tokens |
$0.30/1M tokens |
Efficient sparse MoE: 104B total / 7.4B active, hybrid linear attention. 340 tokens/s on 4× H20. Strong agent and tool-use performance. |
| Tencent |
Hy3-preview Closed |
Text |
2026-04 |
256K |
¥1.2/1M tokens |
¥4.0/1M tokens |
295B MoE (21B active); reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. Via Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Released Apr 23, 2026. |
| Xiaomi |
MiMo-V2.5-Pro Open |
Text |
2026-04 |
1M |
$0.0036/1M tokens |
$0.087/1M tokens |
1.02T MoE, 42B active; KV-cache reduced ~7×; latest generation |
| AGIBot |
Genie Operator-2 (GO-2) Closed |
Embodied |
2026-04 |
— |
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AGIBot's new-generation embodied foundation model, powering autonomous manipulation and locomotion across its AGIBOT A2 and X2 robot lines. |
| Xiaomi |
MiMo-V2-Pro Closed |
Text |
2026-03 |
1M |
$0.0036/1M tokens |
$0.087/1M tokens |
1T+ MoE, 42B active; hybrid attention; 1M token context |
| Unitree Robotics |
UnifoLM-VLA-0 Open |
Embodied |
2026-03 |
N/A |
|
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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. |
| Kunlun Tech |
SkyReels V4 Closed |
Video Gen |
2026-03 |
— |
|
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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. |
| Kunlun Tech |
Mureka V9 Closed |
Audio |
2026-03 |
— |
|
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Music generation model (Mar 2026). Paragraph-level text control; enhanced mixing quality, vocal expression, and style richness. |
| Kunlun Tech |
Matrix-Game 3.0 Closed |
Text |
2026-03 |
— |
|
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Physics-simulation interactive world model (Mar 2026). 5B params; 720P @ 40FPS; covers 1,000+ scenarios with Unreal Engine data. Industrial-grade real-time interactivity. |
| ByteDance |
Seed2.0 Pro Closed |
Multimodal |
2026-02 |
272K |
$0.47/1M tokens |
$2.37/1M tokens |
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%. |
| ByteDance |
Seedream 5.0 Lite Closed |
Image Gen |
2026-02 |
— |
$0.026/image |
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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. |
| ByteDance |
Seedance 2.0 Closed |
Video Gen |
2026-02 |
— |
|
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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. |
| Alibaba |
Qwen3.5 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-02 |
262K (1M w/ YaRN) |
|
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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. |
| Alibaba |
Qwen3-Coder-Next Open |
Code |
2026-02 |
256K |
|
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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. |
| Zhipu AI (Z.ai) |
GLM-5 Open |
Text |
2026-02 |
200K |
$1.40/1M tokens |
$4.40/1M tokens |
754B MoE (40B active); 28.5T token pre-training; top-tier SWE-bench score of 77.8 |
| MiniMax |
MiniMax-M2.5 Open |
Agent |
2026-02 |
1M tokens |
$0.30–$1.00/hr |
$0.30–$1.00/hr |
229B; SOTA SWE-Bench (80.2); 80% of MiniMax's own code generated by this model; M2.5-Lightning at 100 tok/s |
| Baidu |
ERNIE 5.0 Closed |
Multimodal |
2026-02 |
128K |
|
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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. |
| Ant Group |
LingBot-VLA Open |
Embodied |
2026-02 |
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Open-source VLA foundation model trained on ~20,000 hours of real-world dual-arm robot data across 9 embodiments |
| Ant Group |
Ring-2.5-1T Open |
Text |
2026-02 |
256K |
|
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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. |
| Ant Group |
Ming-flash-omni-2.0 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-02 |
— |
|
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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. |
| Ant Group |
LLaDA-2.1-flash Open |
Multimodal |
2026-02 |
— |
|
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Novel diffusion-based language model — not autoregressive. 103B params. Generates text by iterative token editing rather than left-to-right decoding. 102K monthly downloads. |
| Baichuan AI |
Baichuan-M3 Open |
Text |
2026-02 |
— |
|
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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. |
| Moonshot AI |
Kimi K2.5 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-01 |
256K |
$0.40/1M tokens |
$1.90/1M tokens |
1T MoE (32B active); trained on 15T vision+text tokens; thinking & instant modes; agent swarm support |
| DeepSeek |
DeepSeek-OCR-2 Open |
Multimodal |
2026-01 |
— |
|
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3B visual OCR model with document-to-markdown conversion, layout-aware grounding, and dynamic resolution. 1.66M monthly downloads. |
| Tencent |
HunyuanImage 3.0 Open |
Image Gen |
2026-01 |
— |
|
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80B MoE (13B active); text-to-image and image-to-image with reasoning. Open weight on HuggingFace. Released Jan 26, 2026. |
| Meituan |
LongCat-Flash-Lite Open |
Text |
2026-01 |
256K |
|
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68.5B MoE, 2.9–4.5B active; fast and efficient |
| AIsphere |
PixVerse R1 Closed |
Video Gen |
2026-01 |
N/A |
|
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Real-time world model; 1080p, <15s latency, physics-aware, infinite temporal continuity |
| SenseTime |
SenseNova V6.5 Omni Closed |
Multimodal |
2026-01 |
— |
|
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Real-time multimodal streaming model. Powers SenseChat's live audio/video interaction. Successor to V6 Pro. |
| LimX Dynamics |
FluxVLA Engine Closed |
Embodied |
2026 |
— |
|
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LimX's Vision-Language-Action embodied-AI engine powering autonomous manipulation and locomotion on its humanoid and legged robots. |
| DeepSeek |
DeepSeek-V3.2 Open |
Text |
2025-12 |
128K |
$0.252/1M tokens |
$0.378/1M tokens |
685B MoE with DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA). V3.2-Speciale variant won gold at 2025 IMO and IOI. 4.16M monthly downloads on HuggingFace. |
| Kuaishou |
Kling I2V 2.0 Closed |
Multimodal |
2025-12 |
N/A |
$0.16/video (5s) |
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Image-to-video with industry-leading subject preservation |
| Xiaomi |
MiMo-V2-Flash Open |
Text |
2025-12 |
N/A |
$0.01/1M tokens |
$0.30/1M tokens |
309B MoE, 15B active; trained on 27T tokens; open-source release |
| AIsphere |
PixVerse V5.5 Closed |
Video Gen |
2025-12 |
N/A |
|
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Text/image-to-video; HD output, multiple aspect ratios, character consistency |
| Tencent |
Hunyuan3D 3.0 Closed |
3D Gen |
2025-11 |
— |
|
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3D asset generation from text, image, or sketch input |
| iFlyTek |
Spark X1.5 Closed |
Text |
2025-11 |
— |
|
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MoE reasoning model (29.3B total / 3B active parameters). Supports 130+ languages. Runs on a single Huawei Ascend server. Launched Nov 2025. |
| MiniMax |
MiniMax-M2 Open |
Agent |
2025-10 |
1M tokens |
|
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230B MoE (10B active); interleaved thinking; open-source under Modified MIT; free API available |
| Infinigence AI |
Megrez2-3x7B-A3B Open |
Text |
2025-09 |
— |
|
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MoE edge model: 3×7B experts, 3B active parameters. Open-weight, Apache 2.0. |
| Alibaba |
Qwen-Image Open |
Image Gen |
2025-08 |
— |
|
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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. |
| ModelBest |
MiniCPM-V 4.5 Open |
Multimodal |
2025-08 |
— |
|
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8B multimodal model (Qwen3-8B + SigLIP2). Apache 2.0. |
| Moonshot AI |
Kimi k2 Open |
Text |
2025-07 |
128K |
$0.57/1M tokens |
$2.30/1M tokens |
Agentic model with tool use, web browsing, and code execution |
| MiniMax |
MiniMax-M1 Open |
Text |
2025-06 |
1M tokens |
$0.80/1M tokens |
$2.20/1M tokens |
First open-weight large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model; test-time compute scaling |
| MiniMax |
Hailuo-02 Open |
Video Gen |
2025-06 |
N/A |
$0.06/video (5s) |
|
Physics-aware video generation; top-3 globally on VBench |
| Shengshu Technology |
Vidu Q3 Closed |
Video Gen |
2025-06 |
— |
~$0.07/sec |
|
World's first storytelling-focused video model. Up to 16 sec, 1080p 24fps, native audio sync. Multilingual. Pro and Turbo variants. MCP integration. |
| Huawei |
Pangu Ultra MoE (5.5) Closed |
Text |
2025-06 |
— |
|
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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. |
| DeepSeek |
DeepSeek-R1-0528 Open |
Text |
2025-05 |
128K |
$0.50/1M tokens |
$2.15/1M tokens |
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. |
| Kuaishou |
Kling 2.0 Closed |
Video Gen |
2025-04 |
N/A |
$0.16/video (5s) |
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4K-capable video generation; advanced camera controls and scene coherence |
| Kuaishou |
Kolors 2.0 Open |
Image Gen |
2025-04 |
N/A |
$0.004/image |
|
Upgraded photorealistic image model; open-source available |
| SenseTime |
SenseNova V6 Pro Closed |
Multimodal |
2025-04 |
256K |
¥2.8/1M tokens |
¥8.4/1M tokens |
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). |
| Kunlun Tech |
Skywork-OR1-32B Open |
Text |
2025-04 |
— |
|
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Open-source math and coding reasoning model (Apr 2025). 32B params; rivals DeepSeek-R1 on competitive programming benchmarks. 7B variant also available. |
| Qihoo 360 (三六零) |
360Zhinao3-7B Open |
Text |
2025-04 |
32K |
|
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Latest open-weight 360Zhinao generation (Base / Instruct / O1.5 long chain-of-thought reasoning variant). Free for commercial use. |
| Baidu |
ERNIE X1 Closed |
Text |
2025-03 |
128K |
$0.28/1M tokens |
$1.10/1M tokens |
Baidu's first dedicated reasoning model with extended chain-of-thought |
| Baidu |
ERNIE 4.5 Closed |
Multimodal |
2025-03 |
128K |
$0.55/1M tokens |
$2.20/1M tokens |
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. |
| StepFun |
Step-3 Closed |
Text |
2025-01 |
1M |
$0.57/1M tokens |
$1.42/1M tokens |
StepFun's 2025 flagship; 1M token context and native reasoning mode |
| Baichuan AI |
Baichuan-M2 Open |
Text |
2025-01 |
— |
|
|
32B medical reasoning model (2025) built on Qwen2.5-32B with innovative Large Verifier System for real-world clinical reasoning. |
| ModelBest |
MiniCPM-o 2.6 Open |
Multimodal |
2025-01 |
— |
|
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8B any-to-any model (text + vision + speech). Surpasses GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro on single-image understanding benchmarks. Launched Jan 2025. |
| Kuaishou |
Kling 1.6 Pro Closed |
Video Gen |
2024-12 |
N/A |
$0.14/video (5s) |
|
Previous flagship; supports 1080p, 5-10s clips, camera controls |
| Infinigence AI |
Megrez-3B-Omni Open |
Multimodal |
2024-12 |
— |
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3B omni model processing text, vision, and audio. Outperforms LLaVA-NeXT-Yi-34B on vision benchmarks. Optimised for on-device and edge deployment. |
| Kunlun Tech |
Skywork-o1 Open |
Text |
2024-11 |
— |
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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. |
| Qihoo 360 (三六零) |
360Zhinao2-7B Open |
Text |
2024-11 |
360K |
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Second-generation 360Zhinao with Base and Chat variants at 4K / 32K / 360K context lengths. |
| Baichuan AI |
Baichuan4-Turbo Closed |
Text |
2024-10 |
192K |
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Enterprise flagship general LLM (late 2024). 10%+ usability gain vs prior generation; priced at ~80% of GPT-4o. Supports multimodal input. |
| Baichuan AI |
Baichuan4-Air Closed |
Text |
2024-10 |
192K |
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MoE variant (PRI architecture) of Baichuan4. High performance at low cost for API deployments. |
| 01.AI |
Yi-Lightning Closed |
Text |
2024-10 |
16K |
$0.14/1M tokens |
$0.14/1M tokens |
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. |
| 01.AI |
Yi-Coder Open |
Code |
2024-09 |
128K |
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Code model (Sep 2024); 1.5B and 9B variants; supports 52 programming languages; 128K context window. |
| iFlyTek |
Spark 4.0 Closed |
Text |
2024-08 |
— |
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Flagship LLM (Aug 2024). Claims comparable performance to GPT-4 Turbo on Chinese language benchmarks. |
| StepFun |
Step-2 Closed |
Text |
2024-07 |
256K |
¥0.038/1K tokens |
¥0.12/1K tokens |
Very long context window; strong document understanding |
| StepFun |
Step-1X-Image Closed |
Image Gen |
2024-07 |
N/A |
¥0.04/image |
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High-resolution image generation model |
| 01.AI |
Yi-1.5 Open |
Text |
2024-05 |
— |
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Open-source series (May 2024); 6B–34B variants. Improved coding, math, reasoning, and instruction-following over original Yi. |
| Qihoo 360 (三六零) |
360Zhinao-Search Open |
Embedding |
2024-05 |
— |
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Retrieval + 1.8B reranking models that ranked #1 in the Retrieval and Reranking tasks of the C-MTEB leaderboard. |
| 01.AI |
Yi-VL-34B Open |
Multimodal |
2024-01 |
— |
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34B vision-language model (early 2024). Open-weight multimodal extension of Yi-34B. |
| 01.AI |
Yi-34B Open |
Text |
2023-11 |
200K |
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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. |
| Kunlun Tech |
Skywork-13B Open |
Text |
2023-10 |
— |
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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. |
| Baichuan AI |
Baichuan2 Open |
Text |
2023-09 |
4K |
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Open-source bilingual LLM series (Sep 2023); 7B and 13B variants; trained on 2.6T tokens. Available on Hugging Face under permissive license. |
| Baidu |
ERNIE-Speed Closed |
Text |
— |
128K |
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Free tier for prototyping and light production |
| Meituan |
LongCat-Image Open |
Image Gen |
— |
N/A |
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Image generation model, ~6B params; data-quality focused; released Dec 2025 |
| Meituan |
LongCat-Video Open |
Video Gen |
— |
N/A |
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Text-to-video generation model; released Oct 2025 |
| Meituan |
LongCat-Flash-Omni Open |
Multimodal |
— |
256K |
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Text + vision + audio multimodal |
| Meituan |
LongCat-Flash-Thinking Open |
Reasoning |
— |
256K |
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Chain-of-thought reasoning variant of LongCat-Flash |
| Meituan |
LongCat-Flash-Chat Open |
Text |
— |
128K |
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560B MoE, 27B active; open-source; 500K free tokens/day |
| WeRide |
WeRide GENESIS Closed |
Embodied |
— |
— |
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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. |
| Pony.ai |
PonyWorld 2.0 Closed |
Embodied |
— |
— |
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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. |
| Unisound |
UniGPT (Shanhai 山海) Closed |
Text |
— |
— |
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60B+ parameter general large model (v5.0); underpins all Unisound vertical products. Medical, enterprise, and consumer deployments. |
| Unisound |
U2-ASR 2.5 Closed |
Audio |
— |
— |
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First LLM-based semantic ASR model for Chinese. Covers 100+ dialects across 7 dialect systems. >90% accuracy. Available via Token Hub API. |
| Unisound |
U2-TTS / U2-TTS-Clone Closed |
Audio |
— |
— |
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Text-to-speech and voice cloning with full-duplex millisecond response. Available via Token Hub API. |
| Unisound |
U1-OCR Closed |
Multimodal |
— |
— |
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Industrial-grade document intelligence model for OCR and document understanding. Launched February 2026. |
