Tool tag: Chinese AI

MiniMax-M3

MiniMax's multimodal flagship, released June 1, 2026. A 428B-parameter MoE with ~23B active, a 1M-token context, and open weights under a community license.

Step-3.7-Flash

StepFun's open-weight vision-language flagship, released May 29, 2026. A 198B MoE activating ~11B per token, served over 400 tokens/second under Apache 2.0.

ERNIE 5.1

Baidu's closed-weight flagship, released May 9, 2026. A sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with a 128K context — the first ERNIE whose weights stay unpublished.

HiDream-O1-Image

HiDream.ai's 8B pixel-level unified transformer, open-sourced under MIT on May 8, 2026. No VAE, no separate text encoder, and generates up to 2,048x2,048.

Ling-2.6-1T

Ant Group's open-weight, non-thinking flagship: ~1T parameters with 63B active, a hybrid MLA and Linear Attention stack, a 1M-token context, and an MIT license.

DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek's open-weight V4 family: V4-Pro (1.6T/49B), V4-Flash (284B/13B) and the experimental V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. MIT weights, 1M context.

MiMo-V2.5-Pro

Xiaomi's open-weight flagship, released April 22, 2026. A 1.02-trillion-parameter MoE with 42B active, a 1M-token context, and an MIT license.

Doubao Seed 2.0 Code

ByteDance's dedicated coding model, released February 14, 2026 with the Seed 2.0 family. Combines programming and reasoning with multimodal perception.

Seedream 5.0

ByteDance's unified multimodal image model. Seedream 5.0 Lite (Feb 13, 2026) added deep thinking and web search grounding; a Pro tier followed in June 2026.

MOSS-TTS

OpenMOSS's open-source speech synthesis model (Feb 6, 2026). An 8B autoregressive TTS system under Apache 2.0, with zero-shot voice cloning and 20 languages.