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• No physical presence or direct operations in Europe.Physical presence None that we could find — no office, no research site, no distribution partner in Europe.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• No named European customers or partners.European customers or partners None named.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• No European hiring.Hiring in Europe No. We found no European job postings.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• MiniCPM models are being installed on Samsung flagship smartphones.MiniCPM models are being installed on Samsung flagship smartphones ( KrASIA ). If that ships as described, a Chinese on-device model reaches European consumers inside a Korean handset, with no procurement decision taken anywhere in Europe.Six Companies Europe Hasn’t Met

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• ModelBest builds language models small enough to run on a phone and releases them under Apache 2.0.ModelBest builds language models small enough to run on a phone, releases them under Apache 2.0, and has reached a deal to pre-install them on Samsung flagships.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• Founded in August 2022 as a commercial spin-off of Tsinghua University’s NLP lab.ModelBest — 面壁智能, Beijing Mianbi Intelligent Technology — was founded in August 2022 as a commercial spin-off of Tsinghua University’s natural-language-processing laboratory, formally established by Tsinghua professor Liu Zhiyuan ( Caixin ).ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• Li Dahai, previously CTO and partner at Zhihu, became CEO in June 2023.Li Dahai, previously chief technology officer and partner at the Q&A platform Zhihu, took over as chief executive in June 2023.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• The MiniCPM family spans roughly one to nine billion parameters, including text, vision, and omnimodal models.The MiniCPM family spans roughly one to nine billion parameters: MiniCPM5-1B, a text model released in May 2026; MiniCPM-V 4.6, a 1.3-billion-parameter vision model the company says runs on a phone with six gigabytes of memory; and MiniCPM-o 4.5, a nine-billion omnimodal model for voice and video.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• MiniCPM-V 4.7 is a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model decoding at over 13 tokens/sec in 3GB memory on iPhone 17 Pro Max (company claim).company claimMiniCPM-V 4.7, a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates about three billion per token and, by the company’s account, decodes at over 13 tokens a second in three gigabytes of memory on an iPhone 17 Pro Max ( company release ).ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• SuperMate, the in-car agent, entered mass production in April in the Changan Mazda EZ-60 and is in Geely’s Galaxy M9.The commercial product is the in-car agent SuperMate, which entered mass production in April in the Changan Mazda EZ-60 and is in Geely’s Galaxy M9; the company projects it in 300,000 production vehicles by the end of the year.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• At WAIC in July it added MiniCPM-Robot, an embodied-AI series, and has a humanoid collaboration with Leju Robot.At WAIC in July it added MiniCPM-Robot, an embodied-AI series, and it has a humanoid collaboration with Leju Robot — one of China’s Humanoid Seven .ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box
• Open-source weights: MiniCPM-V code and weights are released under Apache 2.0.Open weights Yes. MiniCPM-V code and weights are released under Apache 2.0 ( OpenBMB on GitHub ); MiniCPM 4 likewise.ModelBest: The Chinese Model That Arrives in a Samsung Box