China's AI Industry: Leading Services and Developers

Key AI Services to Watch

- Doubao: ByteDance's popular consumer AI app and chatbot, known for its affordable LLMs, outperforming ChatGPT's GPT-4 in some areas.
- Qwen: Alibaba's flagship LLM and chatbot, rated among the top-tier in global benchmarks, with a strong focus on open-source development.
- Ernie Bot: Baidu's ChatGPT equivalent, claiming capabilities matching GPT-4, with plans for open-source release of Ernie 4.5.
- Hunyuan: Tencent's model with a multi-modal focus on text, image, and video generation, supported by its massive WeChat user base.
- GLM4: Zhipu AI's LLM, outperforming GPT-4 in certain metrics, with a focus on long-context processing.
- Kimi: Moonshot's chatbot, known for its advanced reasoning capabilities.
- MiniMax-01: Minimax's open-sourced MoE framework model, recognized for its cost-effectiveness.
- 01.AI: Open-source LLM developer, focusing on cost optimization.
- Baichuan: Open-source model from a team of former Sogou executives, launched in June 2023.