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Tool tag: Chinese AI

Wan 3.0

Alibaba's video family. Wan 3.0 (August 2026) generates 30-second 1080p clips with audio, API-only. Wan 2.2 is still the last Apache 2.0 release.

Dola (formerly Cici)

ByteDance's overseas AI assistant, renamed from Cici in November 2025. Free chat, translation and image generation, region-locked out of the US and China.

Tencent Hy4 preview

Tencent's open-weight flagship, released August 28, 2026. A 770B MoE with 49B active, a 1M-token context, Apache 2.0 — and explicitly a preview.

MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0)

MiniMax's omni-modal video model, announced July 31, 2026: 33B open weights, 2K video up to 15 seconds, with stereo audio generated jointly.

Seedance 2.5

ByteDance Seed video model, launched July 31, 2026: 30-second audio-video in one pass and 50 reference inputs. No technical report or rate card yet.

Qwen-Image 3.0

Alibaba's third-generation image model, announced July 21, 2026: 4,500-token prompts, 10px text, 12 languages — and a second flagship with no weights.

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI's flagship: a 2.8T-parameter MoE with 104B active, 1M context and native vision. Open weights shipped July 27, 2026.

LongCat-2.0

Meituan's open-weight flagship, announced June 30, 2026. A 1.6T-parameter MoE with ~48B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and an MIT license.

HappyHorse 1.1

Alibaba's video generation model, released June 23, 2026 by the Alibaba Token Hub team. Generates up to 15 seconds of 1080p video with synchronized audio.

Seed 2.1 (Doubao)

ByteDance's flagship Seed 2.1: Pro for deep-thinking agent work, Turbo for scale, plus the weekly-updated Doubao-Seed-Evolving. Closed weights.