15 AI companies in China. The oldest was founded in 1998, the newest in 2025. Newest check: 11 Nov 2026.
59 of 86 companies were checked against the vendor's own page in the last 30 days.
| Company | Type | Based in | Founded | On Hokai | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BaiduBeijing AI group behind the ERNIE models and Apollo Go robotaxis | Big tech | Beijing, China | 2000 | 1 | 11 Nov |
| Nex AGIOpen-weight agent models and the NexAU framework, from Shanghai | Research lab | Shanghai, China | -- | 1 | 11 Nov |
| MeituanBeijing local-services platform behind the LongCat AI models and Keeta | Big tech | Beijing, China | 2010 | 1 | 3 Nov |
| BilibiliShanghai video platform that releases open translation and TTS models. | Enterprise vendor | Shanghai, China | 2009 | 1 | 2 Nov |
| Z.aiChina's first publicly listed AI lab, open-sourcing the GLM model family. | Research lab | Beijing, China | 2019 | 3 | 29 Oct |
| ByteDanceChinese consumer-internet giant behind TikTok, CapCut and the Seed AI models. | Big tech | Beijing, China | 2012 | 13 | 25 Oct |
| Moonshot AIBeijing AI lab behind Kimi and the open-weight Kimi K3 model family | Research lab | Beijing, China | 2023 | 6 | 24 Oct |
| Kuaishou TechnologyBeijing-listed short-video and live-streaming group behind Kling AI, whose Kling 4.0 video model launched on 15 October 2026. | Enterprise vendor | Beijing, China | 2011 | 3 | 22 Oct |
| InclusionAIAnt Group's open-source AGI lab behind the Ling, Ring and Ming model families. | Research lab | Hangzhou, China | 2025 | 2 | 10 Oct |
| MiniMaxShanghai's AGI lab behind the open-weight MiniMax M-series and Hailuo video models | Research lab | Shanghai, China | 2021 | 6 | 1 Oct |
| Xiaomi CorporationBeijing's smartphone and IoT giant behind the open-weights MiMo AI models | Big tech | Beijing, China | 2010 | 5 | 22 Sep |
| Shanghai AI LabState-backed Shanghai institute building InternLM, Intern-S1 and Atria. | Government | Shanghai, China | 2020 | 2 | 16 Sep |
| Alibaba CloudChina's no.1 cloud and AI platform, home of the Qwen model family. | Big tech | Hangzhou, China | 2009 | 12 | 19 Aug |
| DeepSeekChinese AI research company developing advanced language models and reasoning systems | Research lab | Hangzhou, China | 2023 | 8 | 19 Aug |
| TencentChina's leading internet and technology company building AI across foundation models, cloud infrastructure, and consumer applications. | Big tech | Shenzhen, China | 1998 | 5 | 19 Aug |
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