Products

Li Auto's VLA Driver model is a vision-language-action driving model that began reaching customers with the Li i8 in August 2025 and was pushed to all AD Max users via OTA 8.0 in September 2025.

ChinaConsumer appsRobotics

Huawei's intelligent driving system released in Shanghai on 22 April 2025, built on a cloud-plus-vehicle WEWA architecture and offered in four versions, the flagship carrying a dedicated highway L3 package.

ChinaRoboticsHardware & compute

The DeepSeek app is the company's official free chatbot, offered on the web and as mobile apps since 15 January 2025. It topped the U.S. App Store in late January 2025.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Kling AI is Kuaishou's AI video and image creation platform, built on its Kling models. It began testing in June 2024 and went global that July, and its annualised revenue run rate passed US$240 million by December 2025.

ChinaConsumer appsGenerative models

Tencent Yuanbao is an AI assistant app from Tencent, launched on 30 May 2024, that runs on its Hunyuan models and later integrated DeepSeek-R1, HY 2.0 and Hy3.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Baixiaoying is Baichuan's first AI assistant app, launched on 22 May 2024 and powered by its Baichuan 4 model. It is built around search, including multi-round search, and document reading, and Baichuan has framed it as a step towards an AI "super app".

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Wanzhi is a free bilingual AI productivity workspace released by 01.AI in May 2024 for the web and as a WeChat mini program; the name later extended to an enterprise large-model platform.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

Yuewen is StepFun's AI assistant app, fully opened in March 2024, which reads text, data and charts in images and handles content creation, reasoning and analysis. In December 2024 its team absorbed the Maopaoya team, and the product was later renamed Step AI.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Hailuo AI is MiniMax's generative AI product, launched in March 2024 for text and music generation and extended to video with the video-01 model. It drew copyright scrutiny when major studios sued MiniMax in September 2025.

ChinaConsumer appsGenerative models

Kimi is an AI chatbot from Moonshot AI, released in October 2023 and opened to the public the following month. It is known for very long context windows and has since added search, agent and coding features.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Doubao is ByteDance's AI chatbot, opened for invitation testing in August 2023 and later offering text, image and voice generation, AI search and video generation.[^1][^2]

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Talkie is MiniMax's AI companion app for international markets, launched in June 2023; its Chinese counterpart, Xingye, followed in September 2023.

ChinaConsumer appsCreative tools

A crowdsourced benchmark in which anonymous pairs of language models battle and users vote, producing an Elo leaderboard; launched in 2023 and relaunched as LMArena in 2025.

Large language modelsResearch historyData & datasets

SenseChat is SenseTime's conversational AI product, launched on 10 April 2023 as part of the SenseNova model family with more than 100 billion parameters, first offered to government and corporate clients and later expanded through the V4 and SenseNova V6 releases.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

The Qwen app is Alibaba's consumer chatbot built on its Qwen models. It began as a beta of Tongyi Qianwen in April 2023 and has since added app integrations and reached 234 million users by May 2026.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

ERNIE Bot (文心一言) is Baidu's chatbot, first released to invited testers in March 2023 and opened to the public that August. It has been offered in free and paid tiers and renamed Wenxiaoyan in 2024.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

A public Hugging Face leaderboard that ran a fixed set of benchmarks on open language models in one identical setup, from 2023 to 2025, so their scores could be reproduced and compared.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

The consumer chat product of Zhipu AI, launched as ChatGLM in 2023 and later renamed GLM. It is the web entry point where new Zhipu models such as GLM-5.1 reach ordinary users.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

An open-source AI model community launched by Alibaba's DAMO Academy with partners in 2022, hosting hundreds of ready-to-use models and promoting "Model-as-a-Service".

Open sourceChinaData & datasets

Shenmai FFR is a software package that applies deep learning to CT coronary angiograms to estimate coronary flow reserve, helping clinicians judge whether a narrowing will cause myocardial ischaemia. It holds medical device approvals in China, the EU and the US.

ChinaEnterpriseDeep learning

The Hugging Face Hub is the platform where people share machine-learning models, datasets and demo apps. By September 2026 it had more than 3 million models and 18 million users.

Open sourceFoundation modelsData & datasets

A free, open catalogue that links machine learning papers to their code and maintains benchmark leaderboards tracking the state of the art; built by Atlas ML, majority-owned by Facebook from December 2019, and relaunched as paperswithcode.co by Hugging Face in 2026.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

A handheld machine translation device from iFlytek, first released as Xiaoyi Translator in 2016, which the company's brand history describes as creating the AI translator product category.

ChinaEnterpriseConsumer apps

XiaoIce was a Microsoft chatbot released in May 2014 that users added to WeChat group chats for reminders, lookups, weather and jokes. It drew large crowds, then was banned by WeChat three days later for breaking platform rules.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

A Google search feature announced in 2012 that models real-world entities and their relationships, so that search can work with "things, not strings".

EnterpriseProduct historyData & datasets

Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community founded by Anthony Goldbloom in April 2010, where most submissions are scored instantly on a live leaderboard. Google acquired it in March 2017.

Product historyData & datasetsDeveloper tools

An open-source Python library for statistical learning, begun in 2007, first released publicly on 1 February 2010 by a team at Inria, and now one of the most popular machine learning programs on GitHub.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

Bing is Microsoft's consumer search brand, launched on 3 June 2009 and pitched as a "Decision Engine" meant to help people make faster, better-informed decisions in areas such as shopping, travel, health and local business.

EnterpriseConsumer appsProduct history

Wolfram|Alpha is a web service that answers questions by computing results rather than returning links. Built entirely in Mathematica, it went live in test mode on 15 May 2009 and was declared officially launched three days later.

EnterpriseConsumer appsProduct history

CIFAR-10 is a labelled image dataset of 60000 32×32 colour images in 10 mutually exclusive classes, split into 50000 training and 10000 test images; it was created by Krizhevsky, Nair and Hinton for training and comparing image classifiers.

Research historyDeep learningData & datasets

Common Crawl is a nonprofit that has archived the public web since 2007 and gives its petabyte-scale datasets away for free. Its corpus became a core source of training data for large language models.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework for distributed storage and processing of big data, with the Hadoop Distributed File System for storage and MapReduce for processing; it grew out of the Nutch web-search project and was first released in 2006.

Open sourceProduct historyData & datasets

The UCI Letter Recognition dataset is an archive of 20,000 distorted capital-letter images, each reduced to 16 integer attributes, used to benchmark classification algorithms on a 26-class recognition task.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

Cyc is a hand-built knowledge base and ontology of common-sense knowledge, begun by Douglas Lenat in 1984 to give software the basic concepts and rules about how the world works.

Research historyProduct historyData & datasets

Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy is an AI programming assistant offered as a plugin, an IDE and a CLI, covering design-to-code, requirements documents, backend setup and one-click deployment.

ChinaAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

Alibaba Cloud's AI coding assistant, now presented as Qoder CN after being upgraded from Lingma: an IDE, JetBrains plugin, CLI, agent workbench, cloud agents, SDK and digital-worker product, sold in enterprise plans with a choice of Chinese models.

ChinaEnterpriseDeveloper tools

Coze Studio is an open-source, Apache-2.0 visual tool from the coze-dev GitHub organisation for building AI agents, apps and workflows, written in Go and React, deployable with Docker Compose, and connectable through an OpenAPI and a Chat SDK.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Epoch AI's Benchmarking Hub collects benchmark results for leading AI models, including Epoch-run evaluations, and combines many scores into the Epoch Capabilities Index, a single general capability scale.

Large language modelsResearch historyData & datasets

XNGP is XPENG's advanced driver assistance system, developed full stack in-house; its next generation, VLA 2.0, generates driving actions directly from visual signals and is slated for mass production in 2026.

ChinaConsumer appsRobotics

Apollo Go is Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service. It reported more than 2.2 million fully driverless rides in the second quarter of 2025, had passed 14 million cumulative rides by August 2025, and is expanding through testing permits and partnerships with Uber and Lyft.

ChinaConsumer appsRobotics

ImageNet is a large, hierarchical image database built on the WordNet conceptual model and released at Princeton University in 2009. It holds more than 14 million images in 21,841 categories, with bounding-box annotations, and a 1,000-class subset used by the ILSVRC challenge.

Research historyData & datasetsScience

Cinematch was Netflix's own algorithm for predicting what rating a subscriber would give a film. Its accuracy became the baseline of the Netflix Prize, a $1 million contest to beat it by 10 percent.

Research historyProduct historyData & datasets