Category: Chinese AI labs

Organizations in China with significant model-pretraining capacity: frontier open-weight labs, tech-giant programs, state institutes, and the hardware layer beneath them. For the full landscape narrative and comparison table, see the hub article Chinese AI labs.

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  • 01.AI · Kai-Fu Lee's 2023 model startup; its Yi-34B briefly led open leaderboards before the company pivoted away from frontier pretraining.
  • Ant Group · Alipay's parent company; its Ling/Bailing model line pioneered frontier MoE training on mixed domestic silicon.
  • Baichuan · Wang Xiaochuan's 2023 lab; its early open Baichuan models seeded China's ecosystem before a pivot toward medical AI.
  • Baidu · Chinese search giant and AI pioneer; developer of the ERNIE model line and the Kunlun AI chips.
  • ByteDance · TikTok's parent and one of the world's largest AI compute buyers; its Seed lab builds the Doubao assistant and Seedream/Seedance media models.
  • ChatGLM · Zhipu AI and Tsinghua's 2023 bilingual open-weight chat assistant line, launched with the locally runnable ChatGLM-6B.
  • Chinese AI labs · The complete landscape of Chinese organizations with significant model-pretraining capacity: frontier labs, tech giants, state institutes, and the domestic-silicon question.
  • DeepSeek · Hangzhou AI lab funded by hedge fund High-Flyer; publisher of the open-weight DeepSeek model family and the R1 reasoning model.
  • Doubao · ByteDance's assistant model line; China's largest chatbot user base, priced to force market-wide cuts.
  • ERNIE Bot · Baidu's conversational AI service and flagship LLM line, launched in March 2023 as China's first major ChatGPT-style chatbot.
  • GLM (model family) · Zhipu AI's model line, from the GLM-130B open release of 2022 through the agentic GLM-4.5/5 generation.
  • GLM-4 · Zhipu AI's January 2024 flagship language model generation, spanning a proprietary API flagship and later open-weight GLM-4-9B variants.
  • GLM-4.5 · Zhipu AI's July 2025 open-weight mixture-of-experts model, positioned as a unified agentic, reasoning, and coding foundation model.
  • GLM-4.6 · Zhipu AI's late-2025 open-weight mixture-of-experts model, an agentic-coding-focused successor to GLM-4.5 with a 200K-token context window.
  • Hailuo · MiniMax's consumer AI brand, covering the Hailuo AI assistant app and the Hailuo video-generation model line (video-01, Hailuo 02).
  • Huawei · China's sanctioned hardware champion: Ascend AI chips, the CloudMatrix rack systems, and the PanGu model line.
  • Hunyuan · Tencent's model line: the open Hunyuan-Large MoE (2024), the leading open video model HunyuanVideo, and the Apache-2.0 Hunyuan 3.0 (2026).
  • Hunyuan 3.0 · Tencent's July 2026 open-weight flagship: a 295B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 21B active parameters and a 256K context window, released under Apache 2.0.
  • iFlytek · Chinese speech-technology giant; its Spark models are notable for training entirely on Huawei Ascend domestic chips.
  • iFlytek Spark · iFlytek's family of large language models, launched in May 2023 and notable for being trained on domestic Huawei Ascend compute.
  • InternLM · Shanghai AI Laboratory's open-weight language model series, spanning the original 2023 release through InternLM2, InternLM2.5, and InternLM3.
  • InternVL · Shanghai AI Laboratory's open-weight vision-language model family, launched December 2023 and iterated through InternVL 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3.
  • Kimi (model family) · Moonshot AI's model line: the long-context Kimi assistant, k1.5 reasoning, and the trillion-parameter open-weight K2 series.
  • Kimi K2 · Moonshot AI's July 2025 trillion-parameter open-weight MoE; put open weights at the agentic frontier and introduced the MuonClip optimizer.
  • Kimi K3 · Moonshot AI's July 2026 flagship: a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE, the largest open-weight release to date, with the Kimi Delta Attention architecture.
  • Kling · Kuaishou's text-to-video generation model, launched in June 2024 as one of the first widely accessible answers to OpenAI's Sora.
  • Ling (models) · Ant Group's open-weight mixture-of-experts model family (Bailing line), notable for frontier-scale training partly on Chinese domestic accelerators.
  • LongCat · Meituan's open MoE line: LongCat-Flash (560B, 2025) and LongCat-2.0 (1.6T, 2026), trained entirely on Chinese accelerators.
  • Meituan · China's local-services giant; its LongCat models reached 1.6T parameters trained entirely on Chinese chips, leading open agentic-coding rankings in 2026.
  • MiMo · Xiaomi's open model line: reasoning-first small models (MiMo-7B, 2025) scaled to the frontier checkpoints that led OpenRouter usage in 2026.
  • MiniMax · Shanghai AI company known for linear-attention frontier models (MiniMax-01, M1/M2), the Hailuo video line, and companion apps.
  • Moonshot AI · Beijing AI startup founded by Yang Zhilin in 2023; developer of the Kimi models, including the trillion-parameter open-weight Kimi K2.
  • Qwen 1 · Alibaba Cloud's first generation of Qwen large language models (2023), released as open-weight checkpoints from 1.8B to 72B parameters.
  • Qwen team · Alibaba's model group (Tongyi lab); publisher of the Qwen family, the open ecosystem's most-downloaded base-model line.
  • Qwen2.5-VL · Alibaba's January 2025 open-weight vision-language model series (3B to 72B) with document parsing, object grounding, long-video understanding, and GUI-agent capabilities.
  • Qwen3-Coder · Alibaba's July 2025 open-weight agentic coding model, a 480B-parameter mixture-of-experts specialist derived from the Qwen3 family.
  • Qwen3-Max · Alibaba's September 2025 proprietary flagship of the Qwen3 generation, developer-reported to exceed one trillion parameters.
  • Seed-OSS · ByteDance Seed's August 2025 open-weight 36B dense language model family, notable for a long native context window and a user-controllable thinking budget.
  • Seedream · ByteDance Seed's text-to-image generation model family (Seedream 2.0-4.0), noted for bilingual Chinese-English prompting and integrated image editing.
  • SenseNova · SenseTime's foundation model family, launched in April 2023 and iterated through multimodal and reasoning-focused versions.
  • SenseTime · Computer-vision incumbent turned model lab; the SenseNova line runs on one of China's largest private AI datacenters.
  • Shanghai AI Laboratory · State-backed research institute behind the InternLM and InternVL open model lines and the OpenCompass evaluation platform.
  • StepFun · Shanghai lab founded by ex-Microsoft researcher Jiang Daxin; trillion-parameter Step-2 and the multimodal Step series.
  • Tencent · Chinese internet giant behind WeChat; developer of the Hunyuan model line, including open-weight text, video, and 3D models.
  • Xiaomi · Consumer-electronics giant whose MiMo model line vaulted to open-weight usage leadership in 2026 on aggressive price-performance.
  • Yi (model family) · 01.AI's family of bilingual open-weight language models, launched in November 2023 with Yi-6B and Yi-34B and later extended by Yi-1.5 and the proprietary Yi-Large.
  • Zhipu AI · Beijing AI company (branded Z.ai) spun out of Tsinghua University; developer of the GLM model family.