Artificial intelligence

ByteDance is a Beijing-headquartered internet company that builds algorithm-ranked content products, including Douyin, TikTok, Toutiao, and CapCut.

DeepSeek is a Hangzhou artificial-intelligence company, owned by the hedge fund High-Flyer, that releases open-weight large language models.

Scale AI is a San Francisco company that sells data-labeling, evaluation, and AI-application software, and is 49% owned by Meta Platforms.

Moonshot AI is a Beijing company that builds the Kimi family of large language models and is one of China's so-called AI Tigers.

NVIDIA is a Santa Clara public company that designs GPUs and AI accelerators; it was co-founded by Taiwanese-American engineer Jensen Huang.

Fireworks AI is a San Francisco company that sells fast inference and fine-tuning infrastructure for open and custom language models.

Pony.ai is a Fremont-headquartered autonomous-driving company that develops robotaxi software and operates public robotaxi services in selected Chinese cities.

Baidu is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that operates web search and develops internet and AI products.

iFlytek is a Hefei-headquartered technology company that develops speech recognition and voice-based software products.

SenseTime is a Hong Kong-headquartered technology company that develops computer-vision and generative AI software.

Megvii is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that develops image-recognition and deep-learning software.

Z.ai is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that trains and releases GLM large language models.

01.AI is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that develops open-source large language models.

Baichuan is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that develops large language models for Chinese and bilingual use.

Cambricon is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that designs AI processor chips and related accelerators.

Horizon Robotics is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that designs AI chips for driver-assistance and autonomous vehicles.

WeRide is a Guangzhou-headquartered technology company that develops autonomous driving software and robotaxi services.

Databricks is a San Francisco-headquartered technology company that sells a lakehouse data and AI platform built around Apache Spark.

LlamaIndex is a San Francisco-headquartered technology company that builds frameworks that let language models index and query documents.

Zhang Yiming is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded ByteDance and remains its chairman.

Liang Rubo is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded ByteDance and later became its chief executive.

Liang Wenfeng is a Chinese investor and engineer who co-founded High-Flyer and founded DeepSeek.

Alexandr Wang is an American entrepreneur of Chinese descent who co-founded Scale AI and later joined Meta.

Yang Zhilin is a Chinese researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Moonshot AI and leads its Kimi models.

Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese-American engineer who co-founded NVIDIA and serves as its president and chief executive.

Lin Qiao is a Chinese-born engineer who led PyTorch production at Meta and co-founded Fireworks AI.

James Peng is a Chinese engineer who co-founded Pony.ai after working on autonomous driving at Baidu.

Robin Li is a Chinese engineer who co-founded Baidu and remains its chief executive.

Liu Qingfeng is a Chinese engineer who founded iFlytek.

Tang Xiao'ou was a Chinese computer-vision researcher who co-founded SenseTime.

Yin Qi is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Megvii.

Tang Jie is a Chinese computer scientist who co-founded Zhipu AI, now Z.ai.

Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist who founded 01.AI after Sinovation Ventures.

Wang Xiaochuan is a Chinese engineer who founded Baichuan after leading Sogou.

Chen Tianshi is a Chinese computer architect who co-founded Cambricon.

Yu Kai is a Chinese AI researcher who founded Horizon Robotics.

Tony Han is a Chinese engineer who founded WeRide.

Reynold Xin is a Chinese-American computer scientist who co-founded Databricks.

Jerry Liu is a Chinese-American engineer who founded LlamaIndex.