Baichuan AI
百川智能
Founded by Sogou creator Wang Xiaochuan; builds language models for healthcare
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Region
- Beijing
- Founded
- 2023
- Stage
- Undisclosed
Overview
Baichuan AI is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence company developing foundational large language models and applications. Its portfolio includes open-source Chinese models and enterprise-oriented models with search, long-context and multimodal capabilities. The company announced a stronger organizational focus on healthcare applications in 2025.
Products
5Baichuan-7B
An open-source Chinese large language model released for free commercial use.
Baichuan-13B
A 13-billion-parameter open-source Chinese model released for free commercial use.
Baichuan4
A general model offering search-agent, long-context and multimodal capabilities.
Baichuan4-Turbo
An enterprise-oriented model optimized for deployment cost and inference speed.
Baichuan4-Air
A mixture-of-experts model using Baichuan AI's PRI architecture.
Highlights
5- 01Baichuan AI released Baichuan-7B and Baichuan-13B within 100 days of its founding and reported more than one million downloads.
- 02Baichuan was among the first companies approved in China to release a public chatbot in August 2023.
- 03The company raised $300 million in October 2023 from investors including Tencent, Alibaba, Shunwei Capital and Xiaomi.
- 04Alibaba participated in a $691 million financing in July 2024 that valued Baichuan AI at $2.8 billion.
- 05Baichuan announced a restructuring in March 2025 to focus on healthcare AI applications.
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1Information compiled from public sources; refer to the company's official website for authoritative details.