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
- Paris-based Mistral releases "Le Chonk," a strong coding model that still trails China overallThe Decoder · 29 Oct 2026
- Mistral’s Large 4 open weights arrive with a 1-point coding lead over GLM-5.3: "There’s nothing you can’t do with this model that you can do with competitors."The New Stack · 29 Oct 2026
- Bombshell Report Claims White House Did Nothing After Chinese Spy Targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen HuangMediaite · 29 Oct 2026
- China’s Iluvatar CoreX says new GPU matches Nvidia’s H200 as chip gap closesSouth China Morning Post · 29 Oct 2026
- Half of healthcare’s $1 trillion admin spending is wasted, and Utah is tackling it with AIUtah Business · 29 Oct 2026
- Rival.io Launches GraphX, Running DeepSeek V4 Flash on Just Eight NVIDIA L4 GPUsYahoo Finance · 29 Oct 2026
- Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight RaceWired AI · 29 Oct 2026
- What Latino Voters Can Teach Washington About AI GovernanceTech Policy Press · 29 Oct 2026
- Let China copy American AIThe Economist · 29 Oct 2026
- Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York TimesThe Decoder · 29 Oct 2026
- Regulate AI, but don’t hand the 21st century to ChinaThe Hill · 29 Oct 2026
- OpenAI s Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defensesThe Decoder · 29 Oct 2026
- New Policy Memo: An American Answer to China’s Open AI ModelsManhattan Institute · 29 Oct 2026
- Guinness Brings its Ad Characters to China in AI Campaign FilmBranding in Asia · 29 Oct 2026
- China's Rokae Robotics Announces Delivery of its 10,000th Humanoid Force-Controlled ArmAI Insider · 29 Oct 2026
- Bio Essence Unveils Practitioner-Controlled Knowledge Vault, Tackling AI's Trust Barrier in HealthcareYahoo Finance · 29 Oct 2026
- IMF proposes Min Liao to succeed Bo Li as deputy chiefThe Financial Express · 29 Oct 2026
- IMF proposes China’s Min Liao as deputy managing director, Bo Li to exit in NovemberThe Economic Times · 29 Oct 2026
- Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy PlotNYT Technology · 29 Oct 2026
- Nvidia Chief Seen as Target of Chinese Spy PlotThe New York Times · 29 Oct 2026
- India AI Race: Why Private Equity and Family Offices Still See Promise Despite a Funding Gap With the US and ChinaUnivest · 29 Oct 2026
- DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are reportedly using GPT-6 Astra for trainingTechzine Global · 29 Oct 2026
- Chinese AI Models Under Scrutiny as Cyberattacks Target Indian Financial FirmsThe 420.in · 29 Oct 2026
- Chinese Startup DiffuSpace Open-Sources 'Clover,' a 35-Billion-Parameter Diffusion Language ModelBigGo Finance · 29 Oct 2026
- Chinese AI model completes complex cyberattacks in tests, raises concernsBusiness Standard · 29 Oct 2026
- Kimi vs DeepSeek: Which Chinese AI Should You Use?Fello AI · 29 Oct 2026
- DeepSeek V5 identifiers surface in official Harness code repositoryTechNode · 29 Oct 2026
- China AI Export Controls: 40 Technologies Listed [2026]https://tech-insider.org/ · 29 Oct 2026
- China calls for greater regulation on AI at global forumModern Ghana · 29 Oct 2026
- DeepSeek GPT-6 Astra: 2 Models Named in Report [2026]shattered.io · 29 Oct 2026
Top Chinese open models
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B♥ 18665
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next♥ 6635
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3♥ 6433
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR♥ 4888
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash♥ 4724
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017♥ 3708
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1♥ 3304
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B♥ 1071
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo♥ 1034
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash♥ 479
- tencent/Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B-FP8♥ 456
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B♥ 394
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2♥ 369
- tencent/Hy-Memory-30B-A3B♥ 313
- openbmb/MiniCPM-OCR-1.0♥ 306
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B-gguf♥ 186
- stepfun-ai/Step-5-Preview♥ 122
- tencent/Hy-Nomas♥ 110
- 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.