Top 13 AI startups in Beijing
May 07, 2026
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Funding: $4.8B
MoonShot is an AI lab developing the popular Kimi series of open-weight large language models. Moonshot’s Kimi models compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, as well as ByteDance’s Doubao, Alibaba’s Qwen, Zhipu’s Z.ai, and DeepSeek.
MoonShot is an AI lab developing the popular Kimi series of open-weight large language models. Moonshot’s Kimi models compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, as well as ByteDance’s Doubao, Alibaba’s Qwen, Zhipu’s Z.ai, and DeepSeek.
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Funding: $21M
Gestala develops brain-computer interface technology to enable communication between the human brain and intelligent systems.
Gestala develops brain-computer interface technology to enable communication between the human brain and intelligent systems.
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Funding: $1.4B
Megvii develops Face++ Cognitive Services - a platform offering computer vision technologies that enable your applications to read and understand the world better. Face++ allows you to easily add leading, deep learning-based image analysis recognition technologies into your applications, with simple and powerful APIs and SDKs.
Megvii develops Face++ Cognitive Services - a platform offering computer vision technologies that enable your applications to read and understand the world better. Face++ allows you to easily add leading, deep learning-based image analysis recognition technologies into your applications, with simple and powerful APIs and SDKs.
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Funding: $1.2B
Momenta is a developer of autonomous driving technology designed to improve efficiency.
Momenta is a developer of autonomous driving technology designed to improve efficiency.
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DeepSeek is specializing in the development of large-scale open-source language models. The company unexpectedly grew out of a Chinese hedge fund and disrupted the AI market with its technologies, which significantly reduced the cost of training and inference of LLM models. These technologies include Mixture of Experts - a fragmented model splitting into individual "experts" so that only a small portion of the model could be used for each task. Unlike traditional language models, which rely heavily on supervised fine-tuning, DeepSeek relies primarily on reinforcement learning. It also came up with the idea of using distilled data from OpenAI models for training. DeepSeek provides its online chatbot and an API for business. Its responses are often criticized due to Chinese censorship.
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Funding: $761.9M
Cambricon is called Chinese Nvidia - as it builds core processor chips and general-purpose graphics processing units for use in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The company's core business is the development and design of AI chips for cloud servers, edge devices and terminals, as well as data-centre clusters but it also produces AI chips to power smartphones. Like Nvidia, Cambricon designs chips itself but outsources the wafer manufacturing to foundries. Cambricon heavily relies on government-affiliated clients that is why it was added to US trade blacklist, restricting it from acquiring US core technology, including using foundry services offered by TSMC. So Cambricon relies on mainland foundries such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and Hua Hong Semiconductor.
Cambricon is called Chinese Nvidia - as it builds core processor chips and general-purpose graphics processing units for use in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The company's core business is the development and design of AI chips for cloud servers, edge devices and terminals, as well as data-centre clusters but it also produces AI chips to power smartphones. Like Nvidia, Cambricon designs chips itself but outsources the wafer manufacturing to foundries. Cambricon heavily relies on government-affiliated clients that is why it was added to US trade blacklist, restricting it from acquiring US core technology, including using foundry services offered by TSMC. So Cambricon relies on mainland foundries such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and Hua Hong Semiconductor.
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Funding: $264.9M
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
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Funding: $137.8M
ForwardX Robotics specializes in R&D of computer vision robots that apply to consumer and business products.
ForwardX Robotics specializes in R&D of computer vision robots that apply to consumer and business products.
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Funding: $6.2M
Lingxi applies machine intelligence to financial services such as debt collection and insurance sales
Lingxi applies machine intelligence to financial services such as debt collection and insurance sales
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01.AI is developing a language model for the Chinese market that enhances productivity, creating significant economic and societal value.
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Kling AI is an AI-powered creative studio for creating imaginative images and videos, based on state-of-the-art generative AI methods.
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