Multimodal
Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's China-first AI assistant, free for daily use with paid power tiers
Google Gemini
Google's AI assistant, now with Gemini 4 Argon on paid plans
Hailuo AI 海螺 (MiniMax)
MiniMax's AI video studio, now running the open-weight H3 model
Malaysia's sovereign LLM, tuned on rojak speech, launched by the PM
Marqo
Ecommerce search and discovery trained on each retailer's own shopper data
Small on-device LLMs and multimodal models that outrun bigger rivals
Reka AI
Multimodal models and video infrastructure for physical AI
SenseChat 商量 (SenseTime)
SenseTime's free consumer assistant, with a Cantonese build for Hong Kong
SenseTime's multimodal agent models, open image models and a free-beta Token Plan
StepFun 阶跃AI (formerly Yuewen 跃问)
StepFun's free AI assistant and agent app, renamed from Yuewen
StepFun 阶跃星辰
Shanghai frontier-model lab behind Step 5 Preview and open Step Flash models
TwelveLabs
Video understanding models that search and analyse what happens in video
Open Thai-language models for text, documents and speech, with a free beta API
VARCO
NC AI's generative 3D, sound and voice tools with open Korean models
Wenxin Assistant 文心助手 (formerly Ernie Bot)
Baidu's free ERNIE-powered assistant, which absorbed the Ernie Bot site in 2026
Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM)
Zhipu's GLM-powered assistant, plus a GLM coding subscription
