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Kunlunxin

昆仑芯

Baidu's full-stack AI chip company

Headquarters: Beijing, China
Region: Beijing
Founded: 2011
Stage: Series D+

Overview

Kunlunxin spun out of Baidu's in-house AI chip unit and became independently operated in 2021, with Baidu holding about 57.67%. It builds general-purpose AI accelerators plus the cluster systems and software stack around them.

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Products

Kunlun P800

Current flagship AI chip; supports 8-card DeepSeek-R1/V3 inference per node.

Kunlun M100

Inference-optimised chip slated for 2026.

Kunlun M300

Chip for ultra-large multimodal training and inference, planned for 2027.

Tianchi supernode

256-card and 512-card supernodes; the 512-card unit can train trillion-parameter models.

Highlights

01Ranked third among domestic AI chip vendors by 2025 cloud AI accelerator shipments (about 116,000 cards, tied with Cambricon).
02Turned on a 30,000-card Kunlunxin cluster in 2025, one of the largest domestic AI compute clusters.
03External revenue overtook internal shipments to Baidu as of June 2026.
04Filed a confidential Hong Kong listing application in January 2026 and started STAR Market IPO coaching in May 2026.