Multimodal

Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)

ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant

Ernie Bot 文心一言 (Baidu)

Baidu's ERNIE-powered assistant for chat, writing, painting and search.

Google Gemini

Google's flagship multimodal AI — the Gemini 3 family across Search, Workspace and Android

ILMU (ILMUchat)

Malaysia's sovereign LLM, tuned on rojak speech, launched by the PM

Marqo

Multimodal vector search engine built for ecommerce product discovery

MiniCPM (OpenBMB / ModelBest 面壁智能)

Small on-device LLMs and multimodal models that outrun bigger rivals

MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI

MiniMax's consumer AI suite — chat, voice, video, now a public company

NTT tsuzumi

Japan's sovereign lightweight LLM — enterprise-grade Japanese AI on a single H100, built from scratch by NTT

Nuclia

Nuclia's RAG platform, now Progress Agentic RAG after 2025 buyout

Reka AI

Multimodal frontier models from Reka

Seedance

ByteDance's multimodal AI video model with joint audio-video generation

SenseChat 商汤日日新

SenseTime's foundation-model chat assistant

SenseNova 商汤日日新 (SenseTime)

SenseTime's MoE multimodal models, from cloud API to edge boxes

StepFun Yuewen 阶跃星辰 跃问

StepFun's multimodal chat app, backed by a $717M round and IPO plans

StepFun 阶跃星辰

Chinese multimodal frontier-model lab founded by Microsoft Research veteran

Tencent Hunyuan 腾讯混元

Tencent's frontier LLM family powering WeChat & QQ AI

Tiangong / Skywork 天工 (Kunlun)

Kunlun's all-in-one research and document agent, now on desktop

Twelve Labs

API that indexes video by what happens in it, not filenames

Typhoon (ไต้ฝุ่น) by SCB 10X

Thailand's most-downloaded open Thai LLM; free API in beta

VARCO

Korea's first gaming-industry LLM — bilingual Korean-English AI for creative, enterprise, and multimodal applications.

Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM)

GLM-powered chat assistant with a fast-growing global coding API