Top AI Startups in China
Ranked by total funding. See full China directory.
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Zhipu AI
Founded 2019 · Beijing
Chinese foundation model lab behind ChatGLM and GLM-4.
$1.4B - 2
Moonshot AI
Founded 2023 · Beijing
Maker of Kimi — the long-context AI chatbot.
$1.3B - 3
01.AI
Founded 2023 · Beijing
Founded by Kai-Fu Lee — maker of the Yi model family.
$1B - 4
MiniMax
Founded 2021 · Shanghai
Chinese AI lab behind Hailuo video and Talkie companions.
$600M - 5
DeepSeek
Founded 2023 · Hangzhou
Open-weights frontier AI models with breakthrough efficiency.
Undisclosed