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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

MLX is an open-source machine learning framework from Apple's machine learning research team, released in December 2023 and built primarily for Apple silicon. Its NumPy-like Python API and unified-memory design let the CPU and GPU work on the same data.

Open sourceDeep learningHardware & compute

TensorRT-LLM is NVIDIA's open-source library for speeding up and optimizing large language model inference on NVIDIA GPUs, publicly released on 19 October 2023 and usable free from GitHub or as part of NVIDIA NeMo.

Large language modelsHardware & computeDeveloper tools

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

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

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

Triton is OpenAI's open-source, Python-like language and compiler for writing GPU kernels. It lets researchers with no CUDA experience produce efficient GPU code, often close to what an expert would write.

Open sourceDeep learningHardware & compute

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

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

Microsoft's commercial edition of its Kinect depth-sensing camera, released on 1 February 2012 at a suggested price of $249 with a version 1.0 software development kit, so that companies and researchers could build motion- and voice-based applications for Windows computers.

Consumer appsHardware & computeDeveloper tools

NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander touched down on July 4, 1997, deployed the small Sojourner rover, used an airbag landing system for the first time, and returned thousands of images of the Martian surface.

Research historyRoboticsHardware & compute

The Newton MessagePad was Apple's first handheld computer built on Newton technology, shipping on 2 August 1993 with a pen-based interface, handwriting recognition and a modular communications design.

Research historyConsumer appsProduct history

IBM's first electronic computer, announced to shareholders in April 1952. Built as a general-purpose machine, it ran some 25 to 50 times faster than its predecessors and opened IBM's 700 series.

Research historyProduct historyHardware & compute

ENIAC, announced on 14 February 1946, is described by the University of Pennsylvania as the first general-purpose electronic computer: a 30-ton machine with 18,000 vacuum tubes, built to produce military firing tables.

Research historyProduct historyHardware & compute

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

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