Department · Cartography10 companies
The labs
behind the models.
Every flagship AI company, indexed by origin, type and traction. Filter by region, narrow to research labs or hardware, or browse the curated lineup country by country.
Alibaba Cloud
ChinaCloud arm of Alibaba — operators of the Qwen open-weights family.
PlatformEst. 2009HangzhouFlagship
Moonshot AI
ChinaBeijing-based lab — makers of the Kimi (K2) family.
LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship
DeepSeek
ChinaFrontier reasoning models at a fraction of the cost.
LabEst. 2023HangzhouFlagship
ByteDance
ChinaParent of TikTok — Doubao is China's most-used AI assistant.
ProductEst. 2012BeijingFlagship
Baidu
ChinaChina's search giant — operators of the ERNIE model family.
ProductEst. 2000BeijingFlagship
01.AI
ChinaKai-Fu Lee's frontier lab — makers of the Yi family.
LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship
MiniMax
ChinaMultimodal frontier lab — Talkie, Hailuo, abab models.
LabEst. 2021ShanghaiFlagship
Zhipu AI
ChinaTsinghua-incubated lab — open-weights GLM family.
LabEst. 2019BeijingFlagship
Tencent
ChinaHunyuan model family + Yuanbao consumer assistant.
ProductEst. 1998ShenzhenFlagship
Huawei
ChinaAscend silicon + Pangu LLM — China's domestic AI stack.
HardwareEst. 1987ShenzhenFlagship