Organization collection

Leading Chinese AI labs

Organizations shaping China's frontier model ecosystem across language, reasoning, multimodal systems, and AI products.

8 organizations

Moonshot AI🇨🇳 China · LLMs · Open models

Moonshot AI develops the Kimi family of foundation models and the Kimi assistant. The lab is known for long-context systems and open-weight models for reasoning, coding, multimodal work and agents; its technical team includes inventors of Transformer-XL and RoPE.

Z.ai🇨🇳 China · Coding · LLMs

Z.ai develops the GLM family of open foundation models spanning language, vision, video generation, coding, and agents. Originating from Tsinghua University research, its work includes the ChatGLM open-model ecosystem and long-context models designed for sustained software-engineering and agentic tasks.

DeepSeek🇨🇳 China · LLMs · Open source

DeepSeek develops open-weight foundation models for reasoning, coding, agents, and general language tasks. Its mixture-of-experts architectures, reinforcement-learning methods, permissively released weights, and detailed technical reports have made it an important reference point for efficient frontier-model development and open model competition.

Alibaba🇨🇳 China · Infrastructure · LLMs

Alibaba is a global technology group whose AI stack spans the Qwen family of open-weight language and multimodal models, Alibaba Cloud's model-training and inference platform, proprietary AI accelerators, and AI applications embedded across commerce and enterprise services.

ByteDance🇨🇳 China · Images · LLMs

ByteDance develops recommendation systems and consumer platforms including TikTok and Douyin. Its Seed organization builds agentic and multimodal foundation models, generative-media systems, robotics, and AI-for-science research across language, vision, speech, audio, video, and 3D.

MiniMax🇨🇳 China · Foundation models · Multimodal

Global foundation-model company developing multimodal models for coding, agents, long-context reasoning, speech, music, images, and video. Its products include MiniMax Code, MiniMax Hub, MiniMax Audio, Hailuo, Talkie, and an API platform for enterprises and developers.

Tencent🇨🇳 China · LLMs · Multimodal

Tencent develops the Hy foundation-model family for reasoning, coding, agents, and multimodal generation. Its broader AI program includes open image, video, 3D, and world models, delivered through Tencent Cloud and integrated across products such as WeChat, Yuanbao, Tencent Meeting, and its developer tools.

Baidu🇨🇳 China · Images · LLMs

Baidu operates a full AI stack spanning cloud infrastructure, the PaddlePaddle deep-learning framework, ERNIE foundation models, and consumer and enterprise applications. Its work also includes search, the Qianfan model platform, and Apollo Go autonomous ride-hailing.