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
- Chinese AI Firms Shift to OpenAI’s GPT-Astra After Anthropic Restrictions조선일보 · 30 Oct 2026
- Mistral Large 4 Open Weights Released: Better Coding Efficiency, but Gaps With Chinese Rivals RemainXenoSpectrum · 30 Oct 2026
- China-Nexus VAPOR PANDA Breached Nine of 200-Plus Targets With AI AgentsUnite.AI · 30 Oct 2026
- LG Builds the Brains, Samsung the Hands in Humanoid Robot Race With ChinaBusinesskorea · 30 Oct 2026
- Doubao Work Opens Kimi, GLM and DeepSeek Models to Team and Enterprise CustomersPandaily · 30 Oct 2026
- DeepSeek Pricing: A 50x Cache Lever and a 2x ClockOrcaRouter · 30 Oct 2026
- Behind DeepSeek’s $16 Billion Funding: Chinese Tech Titans and State PlayersThe Information · 30 Oct 2026
- Nvidia CEO's Ally Identified as Chinese Spy조선일보 · 30 Oct 2026
- Anthropic IPO Valuation of $1.5–2 Trillion Shows US-China AI Gap - News and StatisticsIndexBox · 30 Oct 2026
- Epoch AI Reports Open-Weight GLM 5.3 Exploits Firefox Patch GapUnite.AI · 30 Oct 2026
- Tencent's AI Comeback: Work Agent Nearly Doubles Traffic of Closest RivalSeoul Economic Daily · 30 Oct 2026
- Chinese hackers used DeepSeek and other AI tools in sweeping global cyberattacks, report findsNBC News · 30 Oct 2026
- Trump dials Nvidia CEO, slams AI safety regulations as a 'hoax'The Business Standard · 30 Oct 2026
- Global AI safety is hinging on U.S.-China cooperation, but they see each other as the problemFast Company · 30 Oct 2026
- Nvidia CEO reportedly targeted by an alleged Chinese spyThe Guardian · 30 Oct 2026
- Mistral Large 4 Goes Open Weight, Lands Ahead of Meta but Behind Chinawww.trendingtopics.eu · 30 Oct 2026
- The Real Reason OpenCode Go’s DeepSeek Feels SlowVocal · 30 Oct 2026
- Mistral is taking on U.S. and Chinese AI giants with its biggest model yetHow-To Geek · 30 Oct 2026
- Jio & let Jio, India’s crackling telco spaceThe Economic Times · 30 Oct 2026
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of a Chinese government spyEngadget · 30 Oct 2026
- Rival.io Launches GraphX, Running DeepSeek V4 Flash on Just 8 NVIDIA L4 GPUsHPCwire · 30 Oct 2026
- Medical AI Rules: China Weighs Lessons From EU, US, JapanBioengineer.org · 29 Oct 2026
- Alibaba Wins Court Order Against Pentagon Lobbying BanMexico Business News · 29 Oct 2026
- Nvidia CEO reportedly targeted by Chinese spy previously under suspicion for AI chip smugglingPC Gamer · 29 Oct 2026
- DHS Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Agency SystemsLegis1 · 29 Oct 2026
- China's $1.5 Million AI-Generated Movie Is A Box Office Disaster No One Wants To SeeBGR · 29 Oct 2026
- Why digital policy and regulation will be central to Lula’s fourth term in officeUniversity of Exeter News · 29 Oct 2026
- US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEOTechCrunch AI · 29 Oct 2026
- ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second AI videos with audio: what to knowThe News International · 29 Oct 2026
- Video | Nikhil Kamath On India's AI Opportunity, Startup Ecosystem And Lessons From China | World SummitNDTV · 29 Oct 2026
Top Chinese open models
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B♥ 18696
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next♥ 6648
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3♥ 6442
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR♥ 4888
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash♥ 4724
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017♥ 3901
- 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♥ 491
- tencent/Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B-FP8♥ 458
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2♥ 420
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B♥ 394
- openbmb/MiniCPM-OCR-1.0♥ 331
- tencent/Hy-Memory-30B-A3B♥ 313
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B-gguf♥ 186
- stepfun-ai/Step-5-Preview♥ 122
- tencent/Hy-Nomas♥ 118
- 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.