Moonshot AI
Founded in March 2023 by Tsinghua-trained, ex-Google Brain researcher Yang Zhilin…
Beijing
is #2 in AI funding.
Beijing is a top-3 power in the global AI race — $13.2B of all-time AI capital across 19 orgs.
LIVE #2 OF 12 HUBS 56% OF CHINA 1 FRONTIER MODEL UPDATED 2026-05-08
FUNDING
$13.2B
all-time AI capital raised
#2/ 12 AI ORGS
19
notable AI organisations
#2/ 12 NOTABLE MODELS
38
1 at the frontier
#2/ 12 OPERATIONAL MW
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no live AI DCs on record
Where Beijing sitsall hubs ranked by AI funding
RANK-SPACED · HEIGHT ∝ SQRT(FUNDING) NAVY = BEIJING
Beijing 56/100 rest of china 44/100
Beijing =
56%
of China's AI funding tracked.
Total AI funding in China: $23.5B.
Beijing: $13.2B.
Beijing: $13.2B.
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF CHINA AI FUNDING
Top 9 of 19 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding
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ORG LATEST FUNDING
May 2026
$3.9B
Horizon Robotics
A Beijing automotive-AI chip company founded in 2015 by Yu Kai, the former head of…
$3.0B
Megvii
A Beijing-based computer-vision company founded in 2011 by Tsinghua Yao Class graduates…
$1.4B
Baichuan AI
A Beijing-based LLM company founded in April 2023 by Wang Xiaochuan, the Tsinghua-trained…
Jul 2024
$1.0B
4Paradigm
A Beijing-based enterprise AI platform founded in 2014 by Dai Wenyuan and other former…
$1.0B
Cambricon
A Beijing-based AI chip designer founded in 2016 by brothers Chen Tianshi and Chen Yunji,…
$1.0B
Moore Threads
A Beijing GPU-design startup founded in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, the former…
$700M
Z.ai
A Beijing LLM company spun out of Tsinghua University in 2019 by professors Tang Jie and…
Mar 2026
$558M
01.AI
A Beijing-based LLM lab founded in March 2023 by Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of…
Aug 2024
$300M
Galbot
A Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup founded in 2023 by Peking University professor…
$140M
Shengshu AI
A Beijing-based generative video AI startup founded in March 2023 by a team from Tsinghua…
$140M
Baidu ERNIE
Baidu's foundation-model team, headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing.
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Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
A Beijing-based nonprofit AI research institute (also known as Zhiyuan) founded in 2018…
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ByteDance Seed
ByteDance's foundation-model team, formed in 2023 in Beijing under former Google research…
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China Mobile
China Mobile's AI division, headquartered in Beijing, ships the Jiutian ("Nine Heavens")…
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China Telecom
China Telecom's AI arm, based in Beijing, develops the TeleChat open-weight LLM series…
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Kunlun Tech Skywork
Skywork (Tiangong) is the AGI subsidiary of Beijing-listed Kunlun Tech (300418.
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Meituan LongCat
Meituan's in-house foundation-model lab based at the delivery giant's Beijing…
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Xiaomi MiMo
Xiaomi's in-house LLM program, developed at the company's Beijing Haidian campus and…
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