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 media debuts ‘world-first’ bionic humanoid news anchorsInteresting Engineering · 6 Nov 2026
- Ping An stock gains a new AI governance test for investorsad-hoc-news.de · 6 Nov 2026
- Nvidia tightens tracking of AI GPUs in Southeast Asia as Chinese chip smuggling draws scrutiny, report claims — cloud providers must join monitoring program to qualify for official partner statusTom's Hardware · 6 Nov 2026
- Nvidia makes major chip policy change as China scrutiny growsTradingView · 6 Nov 2026
- Unitree humanoid robots paint and play chess with zero training, claims CEOYahoo Tech · 6 Nov 2026
- Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight modelsThe Decoder · 6 Nov 2026
- Stockal’s US Trading Row: Missing Consent, A Chinese Microcap, And Unanswered QuestionsInc42 · 6 Nov 2026
- Trump backs AI '100%' as market turmoil fuels debate over technology regulationBusiness Upturn · 6 Nov 2026
- Nvidia Just Had Its Worst Day Since DeepSeek, Losing About $450 Billion24/7 Wall St. · 6 Nov 2026
- Democrats plan surge of AI regulation bills when they take over CongressTimesLIVE · 6 Nov 2026
- China's Nvidia H200 Bottleneck Deepens: 600,000 Chips Reportedly Await Approval In Hong Kong as Servers Fetch Nearly $1 Million EachYahoo Finance · 6 Nov 2026
- Big Tech's AI Free Ride Could Be Over: Democrats Prepare Subpoenas, Investigations and Tough New AI LawsInternational Business Times, Singapore Edition · 6 Nov 2026
- [AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse SparkLatent Space · 6 Nov 2026
- Nvidia H200 chips pile up in Hong Kong as Beijing holds back, Reuters saysThe Next Web · 6 Nov 2026
- Voters rejected AI in the midterms. Now comes an era of scrutiny.Inquirer.com · 6 Nov 2026
- Chinese humanoid robots are hunting for work in South KoreaThe Gadgeteer · 6 Nov 2026
- China Blocks Entry Of 600,000 Nvidia Chips Stuck In Hong KongDataconomy · 6 Nov 2026
- OpenAI Eyes 2027 IPO as Enterprise Revenue Surges, Expanding AI Cybersecurity Push and Setting Out Election-Year Policy VisionAI Insider · 6 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek's cheap V4.1 Flash model undercuts the AI spending panicStartup Fortune · 6 Nov 2026
- Ping An stock gains board oversight as AI controls expandad-hoc-news.de · 6 Nov 2026
- Micro Drama Industry 2026: $14B Boom, ShareChat & China AIEkSukoon · 6 Nov 2026
- Apple’s China AI partner has had a rough rideTechNode · 6 Nov 2026
- China to legislate on artificial intelligence across data, computing and algorithmsLondon Daily News · 6 Nov 2026
- DeepSeek plans official plugin marketplace as Harness daily users reach 1.54 millionTechNode · 6 Nov 2026
- Inkling 2: Thinking Machines Overtakes Mistral in Open Weightstrendingtopics.eu · 6 Nov 2026
- Korea forms superintelligence task force, sets 10 AI priorities by JuneChosunbiz · 6 Nov 2026
- Tencent launches Hy4 model to boost visual reasoning, AI safetydigitimes · 6 Nov 2026
- Noh Hong-chul stunned by rapid AI and automation progress in Chinawww.famtimes.co.kr · 6 Nov 2026
- India Flags China-Linked AI Tools in Cyberattacks Targeting Financial InstitutionsSiliconindia · 6 Nov 2026
- Muse Spark Open vs DeepSeek V4.1 vs Beam: 1M Context [2026]shattered.io · 6 Nov 2026
Top Chinese open models
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B♥ 19253
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next♥ 6819
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3♥ 6629
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017♥ 5350
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR♥ 4888
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash♥ 4724
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1♥ 3304
- moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro♥ 1413
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B♥ 1071
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo♥ 1034
- baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2♥ 634
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash♥ 537
- tencent/Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B-FP8♥ 458
- openbmb/MiniCPM-OCR-1.0♥ 441
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B♥ 394
- tencent/Hy-Memory-30B-A3B♥ 313
- baidu/ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base♥ 207
- 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.