The companies behind China's AI compute.
A guide to the Chinese firms powering the AI compute build-out — from chips and servers to liquid cooling, power and data centers.
Foundation Models
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Open-weight frontier models built at a fraction of the usual cost
💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 CodeDoubao (ByteDance)
ByteDance's consumer assistant and enterprise 'agent' model family
💬 Text👁️ Multimodal🧮 Reasoning💻 CodeErnie (Baidu)
Baidu's flagship Ernie models powering its AI products
💬 Text🧮 Reasoning👁️ Multimodal🖼️ Image🎙️ Audio🎬 VideoHunyuan (Tencent)
Tencent's model family across reasoning, image, video and 3D
💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code🖼️ Image🎬 VideoKimi (Moonshot AI)
Long-context assistant and open-weight trillion-parameter models
💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code👁️ MultimodalMiniMax
Open-weight multimodal models spanning text, voice and video
💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code👁️ Multimodal🎬 Video🎙️ AudioQwen (Alibaba)
Alibaba's model family — proprietary flagship plus widely-used open weights
💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code👁️ Multimodal🖼️ Image🎬 VideoZhipu AI (GLM)
Tsinghua-originated lab behind the open GLM family; first listed Chinese AI lab
💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code👁️ MultimodalAn open window into China's compute supply chain.
For a global audience, we're building an independent directory of the Chinese companies powering AI compute — from chips and servers to cooling, power and data centers. Each is profiled objectively and on the record, so international readers can understand who builds what, and how the supply chain fits together. More companies are added as our coverage grows.
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