Department · Cartography5 companies
The labs
behind the models.
Every flagship AI company, indexed by origin, type and traction. Filter by region, narrow to research labs or hardware, or browse the curated lineup country by country.
Moonshot AI
ChinaBeijing-based lab — makers of the Kimi (K2) family.
LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship
DeepSeek
ChinaFrontier reasoning models at a fraction of the cost.
LabEst. 2023HangzhouFlagship
01.AI
ChinaKai-Fu Lee's frontier lab — makers of the Yi family.
LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship
MiniMax
ChinaMultimodal frontier lab — Talkie, Hailuo, abab models.
LabEst. 2021ShanghaiFlagship
Zhipu AI
ChinaTsinghua-incubated lab — open-weights GLM family.
LabEst. 2019BeijingFlagship