AI Stack
China's AI stack spans the whole vertical: AI chips, open-weight and proprietary foundation models, reasoning and multimodal systems, and model-serving platforms.
General-purpose GPU chips; first GPU maker to list in Hong Kong.
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AI training/inference accelerator cards (MLU series) plus NeuWare software.
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Horizon Robotics develops automotive-grade AI processors (Journey series) and smart-driving solutions for passenger vehicles. The Journey 6 chip, built on Horizon's proprietary Nash BPU architecture, supports ADAS through urban NOA. Horizon SuperDrive (HSD) is a full-scenario, end-to-end urban driving-assistance solution using transformer-based architecture. Horizon Mono offers front-camera L2 ADAS. The company holds ~45.8% ADAS market share among Chinese OEMs and has shipped over 10 million Journey units. Partners include BYD, Li Auto, Volkswagen, Bosch, and DENSO.
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Ascend 910-series AI accelerators with the CANN software stack.
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LoongArch-architecture CPUs for PCs, servers and embedded.
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- Global-ready
GPGPU chips for AI compute; +693% on STAR Market debut.
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Full-function GPU on CUDA-compatible MUSA architecture.
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XuanTie is a RISC-V processor IP series developed by T-Head Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. It offers open-source and commercial processor cores (e.g., C906, C910, C920) targeting embedded, IoT, edge AI, and high-performance computing applications. XuanTie competes with ARM and MIPS in processor IP licensing by providing RISC-V-based alternatives. Select cores and related toolchains have been open-sourced.
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- Cost-effective
Integrated DRAM manufacturer focused on DDR5/DDR5 modules, LPDDR5/5X, DDR4 modules and LPDDR4X. HBM is still an emerging roadmap area rather than a broadly available product line.
- Memory & Storage
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Fabless memory and MCU vendor with SPI NOR Flash, SPI NAND Flash, parallel NAND Flash, automotive flash, EEPROM, MCUs, sensors and analog products.
- Memory & Storage
- Global-ready
Memory and storage products through Longsys and the Lexar brand, including SD/microSD/CFexpress cards, portable SSDs, NVMe/SATA SSDs and DDR5/DDR4 memory modules.
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- Global-ready
Memory-interface and interconnect chips for cloud and AI infrastructure, including DDR5 RCD/MRCD/MDB, DDR5 PMIC/SPD/temperature sensors, PCIe retimers and CXL memory-expander controllers.
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3D NAND flash and storage solutions, including enterprise SSDs, client SSDs, UFS/eMMC embedded memory and PCIe/SATA consumer SSDs under the ZHITAI brand.
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MIT-licensed open-weight multimodal reasoning models, led by V4.1 Flash.
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Alibaba's Apache-licensed Qwen3.8 open-weight family for multimodal, coding and agentic work.
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Moonshot's Kimi combines K3 chat and open weights with Agent, Work, Code, Swarm and the always-on Kimi Claw.
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Zhipu's Apache-licensed GLM-5.3 open-weight models for coding and long-horizon agents.
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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MiniMax M2.7 open weights for coding and agentic work; commercial deployment needs authorization.
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Baidu's ERNIE model family; open-weight (4.5) and API.
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Tencent's Hunyuan models (text, image, 3D); some open weights.
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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ByteDance's model family and consumer assistant; API via Volcano Engine.
- Closed
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Zhipu's open API platform for the GLM models.
- Closed
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Chinese generative-image and video community with downloadable models, workflows, LoRA training, WebUI/ComfyUI and creation APIs.
- ✓ Partly open
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Alibaba Cloud's model-serving platform (Bailian) for Qwen and other models.
- Closed
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Open model hub and library (Alibaba): models, datasets, demos.
- ✓ Open source
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Baidu's model-development and serving platform (ERNIE + third-party models).
- Closed
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Open-weight code-generation model and IDE assistant (Zhipu).
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Alibaba Cloud's AI agent suite for software development and daily work, including IDE coding, CLI, QoderWork desktop and cloud agents.
- Closed
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ByteDance's AI-native IDE with agentic coding workflows.
- Closed
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No-code platform for building AI agents and bots (ByteDance).
- Closed
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Open-source LLM app and agent development platform (LLMOps).
- ✓ Partly open
- ✓ Self-hostable
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Cloud-computer agent for research, building, recurring automations and work across connected apps.
- Closed
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Alibaba's AI work platform for research, documents, data, websites, skills, connectors and scheduled agent tasks.
- Closed
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Full-scenario AI office workspace from Tencent Cloud that plans and executes tasks across documents, spreadsheets, code, design, local files and multi-agent workflows.
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