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Foundation Models
The labs behind Qwen, GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi and MiniCPM — the open-weight models that European companies increasingly run themselves.
Companies
Search all →DeepSeekDeepSeek released V4-Flash, a 304B parameter model under MIT licence, focused on inference speed.4 · Customers / operationsMiniMaxMiniMax builds multimodal AI models and consumer apps, with 70%+ revenue from overseas and 236M+ users in 200+ countries.4 · Customers / operationsZhipu AIDeveloper of the GLM model family, GLM-5.3 weights published.1 · Declared interestBaiduBaidu is a leading Chinese tech company with a vertical AI stack from models to autonomous driving.0 · No footprintModelBestModelBest builds small, open-source language models and in-car AI agents, spun out from Tsinghua University in 2022.0 · No footprintTencentTencent embeds AI horizontally across its ecosystem, powering WeChat, gaming, and fintech with its Hunyuan model.0 · No footprint
Europe entry steps in this field
All steps →| Date | Chinese company | Step | As announced | With | Source |
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| 2026-10 | ModelBest | Partnership | ModelBest reached deal to pre-install models on Samsung flagships | Samsung | source |
| 2026-08 | Alibaba (Qwen AI) | Built on a Chinese model | Apple enabled Mac users in China to connect to Alibaba’s Qwen AI. | Apple | source |
| 2023-10 | Alibaba | Partnership | Apple enabled Alibaba Qwen models on Chinese iPhones. | Apple | source |
What to watch in this field
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Open-weight releases and their licences: ‘open’ can mean four different things.
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Which models are available through European hosting rather than a Chinese API.
3
Export-control drafts in Beijing and GPAI obligations in Brussels landing on the same model.
Our coverage
Six Companies Europe Hasn’t Met2026-10-17→ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box2026-10-17→Thirty-Eight Seats in Lisbon2026-10-09→Ox Alpha Was Chinese: What Zhipu’s GLM-5.3-Flash Proves — and What It Doesn’t2026-09-26→Open Weights, Two Meanings: What China’s Four-Model Month Reveals2026-09-01→China’s AI Just Raised Prices — and It’s Still Winning the Price War2026-08-18→AI Without Nvidia: China’s Silicon Declaration of Independence2026-08-13→DeepSeek: The Chinese AI Lab That Shocked Silicon Valley2026-07-23→
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