Organizations shaping AI

Photonic computing company co-founded by Li Jing, also known as Xizhi Tech.

Contract research organization providing drug discovery and development services to biopharmaceutical companies.

Chinese autonomous-driving company, founded in 2016, developing self-driving software and ADAS.

Nankai University

Nankai's AI work spans robotics, pattern recognition, language processing, computer vision, medical-data analysis, and intelligent software through a dedicated college and research institutes.

Public technological university in Moscow, Russia (MISiS), specialising in materials science and steel.

Chinese electric-vehicle maker with an autonomous-driving AI group.

Public research university in Xi'an, China (NPU), specialising in aeronautics, astronautics and marine engineering.

Stealth AI startup founded by David Budden, a former director of engineering at Google DeepMind and researcher at MIT and Harvard.

Builds generative-video models and tools for creating and editing videos from text, images, effects, and references, with consumer apps and an API for production workflows.

Pragmatik Labs

Pragmatik Labs develops next-generation digital agents for knowledge work and physical agents that can reason, use tools, learn from feedback, and coordinate action in real environments.

Its AI institute combines machine learning with control, robotics, communications, and mechanics, with a longstanding focus on autonomous systems and cross-disciplinary applications.

Private research university in Shanghai, China, founded in 2013 and affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Zhuiyi Technology builds enterprise conversational-AI systems for customer service, sales and operations. Its products combine language models, speech, digital humans and conversation analytics, and its team developed the rotary position embedding used widely in modern language models.

Chinese search engine, founded in 2004 and later merged with Tencent's search business.

Chinese online music and audio entertainment company operating QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music, and WeSing.

Major public research university in Shanghai, China, founded in 1907 and known for engineering and architecture.

A Tsinghua University innovation and venture-development unit associated with commercializing research and supporting new technology ventures.

UBTECH Robotics

Robotics company developing the Walker family of industrial and commercial humanoids alongside service, logistics, education, and consumer robots.

Unitree

Chinese robotics company in Hangzhou by Wang Xingxing. Known for affordable quadruped "robot dogs" and, since 2023, low-cost humanoid robots, leading the world in quadruped sales.

The graduate university of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China (UCAS).

Digital bank whose AI group created FATE, an open-source federated-learning framework that lets organizations train shared models while keeping sensitive data within each participant.

Major public research university in Wuhan, China, founded in 1893 and part of the C9-tier of leading Chinese universities.

Public university in Hangzhou, China, focused on agriculture and forestry.

Public university in Hangzhou, China, with roots in textile and silk engineering.