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Xiaomi (小米)
Beijing (北京)
Beijing consumer electronics, IoT, EV, and internet-services company built around phones, smart-home hardware, software services, and the Xiaomi SU7 auto push. Its internal large-model effort is Xiaomi MiMo.
Website3 labs backed
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).
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.