Companies.

Baichuan AI

百川智能

Founded by Sogou creator Wang Xiaochuan; builds language models for healthcare

DeepSeek

深度求索

Open-weight frontier models built at a fraction of the usual cost

Doubao (ByteDance)

豆包

ByteDance's consumer assistant and enterprise 'agent' model family

Ernie (Baidu)

文心一言

Baidu's flagship Ernie models powering its AI products

Hunyuan (Tencent)

腾讯混元

Tencent's model family across reasoning, image, video and 3D

Kimi (Moonshot AI)

月之暗面

Long-context assistant and open-weight trillion-parameter models

MiniMax

Open-weight multimodal models spanning text, voice and video

ModelBest

面壁智能

Efficient large models for on-device AI

Qwen (Alibaba)

通义千问

Alibaba's model family — proprietary flagship plus widely-used open weights

StepFun

阶跃星辰

Developer of large-scale language and multimodal models

Zhipu AI (GLM)

智谱AI

Tsinghua-originated lab behind the open GLM family; first listed Chinese AI lab