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Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴)

Hangzhou (杭州)

Hangzhou internet, cloud, commerce, and AI platform company. Its AI stack spans Alibaba Cloud, Tongyi/Qwen models, enterprise AI services, and the broader Taobao/Tmall commerce ecosystem.

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Zhipu AI / Z.ai (智谱AI)

Spun out of Tsinghua's Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG); founded by professors Tang Jie (唐杰) and Li Juanzi (李娟子); CEO Zhang Peng (张鹏).

Moonshot AI / Kimi (月之暗面)

Founded by ex-Tsinghua KEG / CMU PhD Yang Zhilin (杨植麟). Long-context flagship Kimi consumer chatbot.

MiniMax (稀宇科技)

Shanghai foundation-model lab founded by ex-SenseTime executives.

01.AI (零一万物)

Founded by Kai-Fu Lee (李开复), incubated by Sinovation Ventures. Exited frontier pre-training Q1 2025.

Baichuan AI (百川智能)

Founded by ex-Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan (王小川). Pivoted to healthcare AI mid-2024; flagship is 'Futang Baichuan' pediatric AI model with Beijing Children's Hospital.