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Best Foundation Models AI Startups in China

13 startups match both filters.

All in China All Foundation Models Top in China

Moonshot AI

CN est. 2023

Maker of Kimi — the long-context AI chatbot.

Raised
$3B
Stage
S-C
76

MiniMax

IPO
CN est. 2021

Chinese AI lab behind Hailuo video and Talkie companions.

Raised
$2.2B
Stage
IPO
71

Zhipu AI

CN est. 2019

Chinese foundation model lab behind ChatGLM and GLM-4.

Raised
$2.0B
Stage
IPO
66

01.AI

CN est. 2023

Founded by Kai-Fu Lee — maker of the Yi model family.

Raised
$200M
Stage
S-A
66

ShengShu Technology

CN est. 2023

Multimodal AI video generation with the Vidu model

Raised
$380M
Stage
S-B
66

LimX Dynamics

CN est. 2022

Full-size humanoid robots and embodied intelligence for the physical world

Raised
$200M
Stage
S-B
63

X Square Robot

CN est. 2023

Embodied-AI startup building robot foundation models for general robots

Raised
$516M
Stage
S-B
62

Spirit AI

CN est. 2024

Embodied-intelligence foundation models for general-purpose humanoid robots

Raised
$435M
Stage
SERIES A EXTENSION
62

EngineAI

CN est. 2022

Legged and humanoid robots powered by the SEED multimodal model

Raised
$166M
Stage
SERIES A1
61

Baichuan AI

CN est. 2023

Empowering the world with knowledge and professional services through breakthrough language AI.

Raised
$1.0B
Stage
S-A
58

Robot Era

CN est. 2023

Humanoid robots with full-body control and a vision-language-action model

Raised
$69M
Stage
S-A
56

DeepSeek

CN est. 2023

Open-weights frontier AI models with breakthrough efficiency.

Stage
PRIVATE (HIGH-FLYER)
44

StepFun

CN

StepFun offers a suite of AI tools including knowledge base Q&A, image creation, and advanced multimodal reasoning models.

21