Chinese AI
Companies, apps, open models, daily news and physical AI products from China — with official links.
Chinese AI models, apps and companies, from DeepSeek and Qwen to Kimi and GLM.
Companies & apps
- DeepSeek
Hangzhou
DeepSeek-V3, R1 (open weights)
- Alibaba Qwen
Hangzhou
Qwen3 family, Qwen-VL, Qwen-Image
- Moonshot AI (Kimi)
Beijing
Kimi K2 (open weights)
- Zhipu AI / Z.ai (GLM)
Beijing
GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, CogVideoX
- Baidu (ERNIE)
Beijing
ERNIE 4.5 / X1, Apollo Go
- ByteDance (Doubao / Seed)
Beijing
Doubao, Seed-OSS, Seedream, Seedance
- Tencent (Hunyuan)
Shenzhen
Hunyuan-Large, HunyuanVideo, Hunyuan3D
- MiniMax
Shanghai
MiniMax-M1/M2, Hailuo video
- StepFun
Shanghai
Step-2, Step-Video
- 01.AI
Beijing
Yi series
- Kuaishou (Kling)
Beijing
Kling video generation
- Shanghai AI Lab (InternLM)
Shanghai
InternLM, InternVL
- iFlytek (Spark)
Hefei
Spark LLM, speech AI
- SenseTime (SenseNova)
Shanghai
SenseNova
- OpenBMB / ModelBest (MiniCPM)
Beijing
MiniCPM on-device models
Daily Chinese AI updates
- DeepSeek Plans to Train Its Next-Generation Model on Huawei Ascend ChipsGeopolitechs · 3 Nov 2026
- China plans investigation into AI applications for financial oversightCrypto Briefing · 3 Nov 2026
- China Signals Plans for Broad AI Safety GuardrailsThe Information · 3 Nov 2026
- Nvidia Asks Data Center Operators to Cut Ties with Chinese Clients: FTnews.sbs.co.kr · 3 Nov 2026
- "Nvidia Asks Data Center Operators to Scale Back Dealings with Chinese Clients"아시아경제 · 3 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek Harness Adds Creator Mode For Text-to-plugin GenerationDataconomy · 3 Nov 2026
- China to Regulate Entire AI Lifecycle From Development to Deployment : Global : JKN재경일보 · 3 Nov 2026
- Why China tech is rising while US AI stocks stumbleSaxo · 3 Nov 2026
- China to tighten regulation across the entire AI process, from development to use, in response to concerns that it could spiral out of control파이낸셜뉴스 · 3 Nov 2026
- Nvidia Tells Cloud Clients 51% of Capacity Must Go to Non-Chinese BuyersSeoul Economic Daily · 3 Nov 2026
- India may have 25-30 homegrown AI unicorns by 2030: PeakXV Partners MD | 'India lagging behind China, US in R&D funding' | InshortsInshorts · 3 Nov 2026
- China’s ‘Lipstick King’ touts AI tokens in first for Singles’ Day festivalThe Mighty 790 KFGO · 3 Nov 2026
- D-Robotics Teams Up with Unitree Robotics to Launch Embodied AI Education SolutionGasgoo · 3 Nov 2026
- AI Taking Jobs? China's NDRC Steps In: Job Displacement Risk to Be Included in Monitoring and Early-Warning SystemBigGo Finance · 3 Nov 2026
- China’s ‘Lipstick King’ hawks tokens as AI gets mass-market Singles’ Day pushSouth China Morning Post · 3 Nov 2026
- Europe, Japan, and South Korea Propose Global AI Standards Body Modeled on 5G, Without US or ChinaTech Times · 3 Nov 2026
- AI investment is becoming overly concentrated, Chinese official says, China NewsAsiaOne.com · 3 Nov 2026
- Nvidia Tells Data Center Clients to Trim China Business, FT SaysBloomberg.com · 3 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek adds Creator Mode, lets users build agent plugins by chatDealroom · 3 Nov 2026
- PATEO Deploys Doubao and Nemotron in Thor-Based Vehicle AI BoxUnite.AI · 3 Nov 2026
- From “drug candidates” to “algorithms and data”: AI drug development is reshaping the IP landscape파이낸셜뉴스 · 3 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek showcases Creator Mode for building custom plugins through conversationTechNode · 3 Nov 2026
- Nvidia tells cloud clients to sell at least 51% of services to non-Chinese firmsCrypto Briefing · 3 Nov 2026
- Hong Kong urged to establish regulatory framework for agentic AI, tokenisationAsia News Network · 3 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek plans to train its V5 model on Huawei Ascend 950 chipsCrypto Briefing · 3 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek proposes super-agent architecture for AI coding coordinationTechGig · 3 Nov 2026
- AI investment is becoming overly concentrated, Chinese official saysReuters · 3 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek Harness' new Creator Mode creates plugins from promptsMashable SEA · 3 Nov 2026
- Mastercard Forms OpenAI and Tencent Partnerships to Drive Agentic CommercePYMNTS.com · 3 Nov 2026
- OpenAI executive urges caution in China-US AI talks, warns of distillationSouth China Morning Post · 3 Nov 2026
Top Chinese open models
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B♥ 19042
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next♥ 6736
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3♥ 6533
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR♥ 4888
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017♥ 4771
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash♥ 4724
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1♥ 3304
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B♥ 1071
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo♥ 1034
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2♥ 575
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash♥ 537
- tencent/Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B-FP8♥ 458
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B♥ 394
- openbmb/MiniCPM-OCR-1.0♥ 390
- tencent/Hy-Memory-30B-A3B♥ 313
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B-gguf♥ 186
- tencent/Hy-Nomas♥ 123
- stepfun-ai/Step-5-Preview♥ 122
- Qwen3-0.6B30,452,693
- Qwen3-4B12,585,505
- Qwen3-8B9,739,109
- Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B8,598,074
- Qwen3.5-9B8,489,640
- Qwen3.5-4B7,946,136
- Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct7,390,307
- Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct7,357,696
- Qwen3.8-27B7,221,327
- Qwen3-14B6,913,178
- GLM-5.3-Flash6,515,511
- Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct6,276,110
- Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct6,018,399
- Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct5,132,099
- DeepSeek-V3.24,844,451
- Qwen3.8-27B-FP84,470,739
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-07314,438,887
- Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct4,299,162
- Qwen3-1.7B4,034,338
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP84,021,372
- MiniMax-H33,765,471
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B3,667,555
- Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25073,293,032
- Qwen3.5-2B3,243,646
- Qwen3-32B3,235,453
- Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct3,208,816
- Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base3,162,646
- Qwen3-14B-AWQ2,894,022
- Qwen3.5-0.8B2,820,039
- Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct2,385,218
Chinese physical AI
- Unitree G1
Unitree (China)
Humanoid, ~1.3 m, 23–43 DoF
Official ↗ - Unitree Go2
Unitree (China)
Quadruped robot dog, LiDAR, GPT-enabled voice
Official ↗ - UBTech Walker S
UBTech (China)
Industrial humanoid for factories
Official ↗ - DJI Mavic 4 Pro
DJI (China)
Hasselblad camera, omnidirectional obstacle sensing
Official ↗ - DJI Neo
DJI (China)
135 g palm-launch AI subject tracking
Official ↗ - Baidu Apollo Go
Baidu (China)
Driverless robotaxi, RT6 vehicle
Official ↗ - Pony.ai
Pony.ai (China)
Robotaxi & robotruck, Gen-7 system
Official ↗ - WeRide
WeRide (China)
Robotaxi, robobus, robosweeper
Official ↗ - Xiaomi 15 / HyperAI
Xiaomi (China)
HyperOS AI features
Official ↗
Frequently asked questions
Are Chinese AI models open source?
Several are released with open weights; each listing shows its license.