AI research labs in China
14 research labs in China: 7 frontier, 5 corporate and 2 academic. DeepSeek is the best known.
- 1DeepSeekOpen-weight reasoning and coding models.HangzhouFrontier lab
- 2Qwen (Alibaba)Alibaba's open Qwen model family.HangzhouCorporate lab
- 3BAAIBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.BeijingAcademic lab
- 4Zhipu AIGLM model family from a Tsinghua spin-out.BeijingFrontier lab
- 5Tencent AI LabTencent's research lab for ML and games.ShenzhenCorporate lab
- 6Baidu ResearchBaidu's research arm behind ERNIE.BeijingCorporate lab
- 7MiniMaxText, speech and video foundation models.ShanghaiFrontier lab
- 8ByteDance SeedByteDance's foundation model team.BeijingCorporate lab
- 9Moonshot AILong-context models behind Kimi.BeijingFrontier lab
- 10StepFunMultimodal Step model family.ShanghaiFrontier lab
- 11BaichuanLanguage models with a focus on medicine.BeijingFrontier lab
- 1201.AIYi model family.BeijingFrontier lab
- 13iFlytek ResearchSpeech and language AI.HefeiCorporate lab
- 14Shanghai AI LaboratoryState-backed lab behind InternLM.ShanghaiAcademic lab
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