🇨🇳 Chinese AI Companies
The labs and companies building China's AI. Each profile pulls together that company's models, tools, reviews, battles and news — updated automatically.
See the tools and products built across these ecosystems in our Chinese AI tools directory.
Tencent
Tech conglomerate developing Hunyuan models and consumer AI apps (Yuanbao, Tencent AI Search). Also operates Tencent Cloud with CodeBuddy coding assistant.
Zhipu AI
Chinese AI company developing GLM-family foundation models and AI products under the Zhipu/Z.ai brand.
Alibaba Cloud
Cloud computing and AI platform of Alibaba Group, providing infrastructure, developer services, and Qwen model access through Alibaba Cloud.
深度求索（杭州）人工智能基础技术研究有限公司
ByteDance
Technology company founded in China that develops content, enterprise, and AI products including Doubao and Seed.
Baidu
Chinese internet and AI company known for search, ERNIE models, Baidu AI Cloud, and developer services.
DeepSeek
Chinese AI company founded by High-Flyer Capital, known for open-weight LLMs (DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3) and low-cost APIs. The AI brand is DeepSeek; High-Flyer Capital is the parent entity.
iFlytek
Speech and AI technology leader developing Spark models and consumer apps. API available via iFlytek Open Platform.
Kuaishou Technology
HKEX-listed short-video platform (1024.HK); develops Kling AI video generation models. Operates internationally via Singapore entity Kling AI Pte. Ltd.
DevChat
Vega AI
Xiaomi
Consumer electronics and AI company developing MiMo models and the Miaobi productivity tool. Open-weight releases under MIT license.
Kunlun Tech
Develops Mureka music/audio AI generation platform.
Metaso
SenseTime
AI software company developing SenseNova models and AI infrastructure.
01.AI
ShengShu AI
LiblibAI
Cherry Studio
Meitu
Fish Audio
InstantX
MiniMax
Shanghai-based AI unicorn developing Hailuo AI consumer products and the MiniMax model family (text, speech, multimodal). API available via platform.minimax.io.
Manus
Fitten Tech
PixVerse
Rcell / Community
Tencent Cloud
Tencent Cloud division; develops CodeBuddy AI coding assistant (IDE/CLI/Plugin).
Ant Group
Alibaba affiliate; develops LingGuang multimodal AI assistant with code-driven outputs and Flash Apps. Also operates Alipay and financial services.
Lovart Team
Z.ai
Lingxi Shenzhi
Moonshot AI
Beijing-based AI startup developing the Kimi chatbot and long-context models. Known for 1M+ token context windows and the open-weight Kimi-K2/Kimi-K3 releases.
ShengShu Technology
Tsinghua-affiliated AI company developing Vidu video generation models. API available via platform.vidu.com and integrated into Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
StepFun
AI startup developing Step series models including Step-3.5-Flash.
Huawei
Telecom and tech giant developing Pangu models. openPangu 2.0 Pro released under MIT license.