AI labs in China
14 AGI and frontier AI companies based in China, ranked on the AGIX Leaderboard.
| # | Lab | Type | Score | Research roles | SPVs, 12m | Papers, 12m | Models, 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Qwen (Alibaba)China · Alibaba | Frontier labs | 35 | – | – | 2,216 | 80 |
| 12 | Tencent HunyuanChina · Tencent | Frontier labs | 35 | – | – | 1,747 | 114 |
| 26 | ByteDance SeedChina · ByteDance | Frontier labs | 23 | – | – | 828 | 12 |
| 29 | Zhipu AI (Z.ai)China | Frontier labs | 21 | – | 0 | 66 | 28 |
| 33 | Baidu ERNIEChina · Baidu | Frontier labs | 20 | – | – | 540 | 8 |
| 39 | DeepSeekChina | Frontier labs | 18 | – | 0 | 55 | 27 |
| 46 | StepFunChina | Frontier labs | 17 | – | 0 | 50 | 26 |
| 70 | MiniMaxChina | Frontier labs | 9 | – | 0 | 12 | 11 |
| 79 | Baichuan AIChina | Frontier labs | 7 | – | 0 | 18 | 5 |
| 83 | Moonshot AIChina | Frontier labs | 6 | – | 0 | 11 | 5 |
| 96 | Unitree RoboticsChina | Robotics & world models | 4 | – | 0 | – | 6 |
| 108 | 01.AIChina | Frontier labs | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 118 | AgiBotChina | Robotics & world models | 1 | – | 0 | – | 1 |
| 138 | Kling (Kuaishou)China · Kuaishou | Multimodal & generative media | 0 | – | – | – | – |
#11Qwen (Alibaba)Hangzhou, China
Alibaba's Qwen model family, one of the most-downloaded open-weight series.
2216 papers · 80 models#12Tencent HunyuanShenzhen, ChinaTencent's Hunyuan language, image and 3D models.
1747 papers · 114 models#26ByteDance SeedBeijing, China · 2023ByteDance's foundation model team (Doubao, Seed models).
828 papers · 12 models#29Zhipu AI (Z.ai)Beijing, China · 2019Tsinghua spin-out building the GLM models.
66 papers · 28 models#33Baidu ERNIEBeijing, ChinaBaidu's ERNIE model family.
540 papers · 8 models#39DeepSeekHangzhou, China · 2023Open-weight reasoning and chat models (DeepSeek-V3, R1), backed by the High-Flyer fund.
55 papers · 27 models#46StepFunShanghai, China · 2023Multimodal Step models.
50 papers · 26 models#70MiniMaxShanghai, China · 2021Text, speech and video models (MiniMax-M, Hailuo).
12 papers · 11 models#79Baichuan AIBeijing, China · 2023Baichuan models, now focused on medical AI.
18 papers · 5 models#83Moonshot AIBeijing, China · 2023Maker of the Kimi assistant and the open-weight Kimi K2 models.
11 papers · 5 models#96Unitree RoboticsHangzhou, China · 2016Quadruped and humanoid robots.
6 models#10801.AIBeijing, China · 2023Yi model series; founded by Kai-Fu Lee.
4 papers#118AgiBotShanghai, China · 2023Humanoid robots and the open AgiBot World dataset.
1 models#138Kling (Kuaishou)Beijing, ChinaKuaishou's video generation models.
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