Money

Revenue & ARR

Revenue across China's labs is uneven, and the numbers aren't directly comparable — audited company revenue, management-disclosed ARR, and parent-platform AI revenue all mean different things. Ranked by our tracked signal; tap a source to verify.

Labs tracked
12
revenue / ARR signals
Audited revenue
2
MiniMax (稀宇科技), Zhipu AI / Z.ai (智谱AI)
Highest run-rate
~$4.9B
Qwen team @ Alibaba (通义千问 / 通义实验室) (platform AI)
1
Qwen team @ Alibaba (通义千问 / 通义实验室)
Open-Model Bazaar

Jan-Mar 2026 Alibaba AI-related product revenue

Alibaba disclosed RMB8.971B (~$1.3B) of AI-related product revenue inside Cloud Intelligence. This is stronger than generic cloud revenue, but it is still Alibaba platform revenue around Qwen, Bailian, training, inference, and cloud AI products, not a clean Qwen product/API line.

via Alibaba results / SCMP
RMB9.0B (~$1.3B)
~RMB35.9B (~$5.2B) platform run-rate
2
MiniMax (稀宇科技)
Multimodal Showrunners

As of 2026-03-03

MiniMax reported 573.5M CNY (~$79M) FY2025 revenue, up 158.9% YoY, with ARR above $150M.

via MiniMax results / KR Asia
$79.0M
$150M+
3
Zhipu AI / Z.ai (智谱AI)
Academic-to-Enterprise Pipeline

As of 2026-03-31

Zhipu reported RMB724M (~$105M) FY2025 revenue, with cloud/API revenue growing quickly. Chinese financial media also report MaaS API ARR around RMB1.7B (~$250M) as of March 2026, so the older 2024/H1 2025 framing is now stale.

via Knowledge Atlas annual report
RMB724M (~$105M)
RMB1.7B MaaS API ARR (~$250M)
4
Moonshot AI / Kimi (月之暗面)
Long Window

ARR, Apr 2026

Moonshot reportedly passed $200M ARR while Kimi reached 50M+ monthly active users.

via TechCrunch
>$200M
5
StepFun (阶跃星辰)
Multimodal-to-Device Crew

As of 2026-04-15

StepFun reportedly generated about 500M CNY (~$69M) in 2025 revenue, with a 2026 forecast near 1.2B CNY (~$165M).

via CMBI citing Caijing
~RMB500M (~$69M)
~RMB1.2B 2026E (~$165M)
6
ByteDance Doubao + Seed (豆包 / Seed)
Consumer Feedback Flywheel

AI-specific revenue unavailable

ByteDance does not disclose Seed/Doubao revenue. 36Kr reports Volcano Engine leading public-cloud model calls and highlights Doubao's phone/agent push as an ecosystem-control test.

via 36Kr
Not disclosed
N/A
7
Xiaomi MiMo (小米 MiMo)
Pocket-to-Dashboard Stack

MiMo revenue not broken out

Xiaomi reported $14.63B in FY2025 Smart EV + AI segment revenue, but MiMo revenue is not separately disclosed.

via Sina Finance
Not disclosed
No pure-AI run-rate
8
Hunyuan team @ Tencent (混元)
Mass-Market Distribution Engine

FY2025 embedded disclosure

Tencent does not disclose Hunyuan revenue separately. Signal comes from cloud, Yuanbao, and platform reach.

via Tencent annual report
Not separate
$31.6B enterprise services
9
Meituan LongCat (美团龙猫)
Local-Services Dispatch

No lab revenue line

LongCat fits Meituan workflows, but no separate revenue disclosure exists yet.

Not disclosed
N/A
10
Baichuan AI (百川智能)
Healthcare Hard Pivot

Healthcare pivot

Baichuan has a concrete healthcare vertical, but scale remains unclear.

Not disclosed
N/A
11
DeepSeek (深度求索)
Cost-Curve Rebels

API pricing only

DeepSeek has API pricing and huge model impact, but no disclosed revenue scale.

via 36Kr
Not disclosed
Scale unknown
12
01.AI (零一万物)
Frontier Exit

Frontier exit Q1 2025

01.AI is context now; its frontier team was absorbed into Alibaba.

Not active race
N/A