Investment Map of Chinese AI Startups
HarveenChadha · x · 2026-07-20
An infographic maps out the Big Tech investments behind China's major AI startups. The core takeaway: Alibaba and Tencent are almost universally backing the leading domestic AI companies. Alibaba supports 5 out of 6, while Tencent covers all 6. Both are also developing their own models; Alibaba internally maintains two separate lines: Qwen and Ant. The graphic also details shareholding and investment ratios for companies like Zhipu, MiniMax, Moonshot, Baichuan, 01.AI, StepFun, and DeepSeek. The author highlights that Chinese tech giants are competing while simultaneously spreading their bets across the same pool of AI labs.
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