The evolution of models has not stopped, but the real changes taking place in the industry have overflowed from the model layer.
Coding Agent has been spread over a large area, and vibe coding has changed from a concept to a real development method. OpenClaw topped GitHub in half a year, triggering the emergence of domestic desktop agent products. Video generation has completed a complete path from technical competition to commercial realization. The supply chain of embodied intelligence is beginning to take shape, force-controlled joints are being mass-produced and shipped, dexterous hands are entering commercial use, and motion data collection has changed from laboratory demand to industrial demand. At the same time, nearly 40% of Chinese netizens have AI applications installed on their mobile phones, and the scale of the C-side continues to expand.
The list of 30 companies and products spans models, agents, video generation, embodied intelligence, enterprise services, consumer hardware and infrastructure. There are model teams that continue to output underlying capabilities in the open source ecosystem, there are application companies that have verified the commercial value of AI in specific scenarios, and there are also new faces that have just emerged but have clear product definitions.
Starting from the four dimensions of business value innovation, interactive experience upgrade, technological capability breakthrough, and deep scene integration, Founder Park selected these 30 annual innovative forces.
Don’t be superstitious about authority and don’t stick to existing business logic. On the basis of rapidly changing technology, these teams have taken root in their respective positions.
Airwallex
Airwallex was established in Melbourne in 2015. It is an AI-native financial operating system for global modern enterprises and is committed to building the future of the banking industry for a new form of unbounded, real-time and intelligent economy. In the past year, Airwallex has fully superimposed AI capabilities on the payment network, launched AI assistant Kai, T:0 autonomous financial system and Airi smart wallet, and released Billing accounting products and AgentOS toolkits. It covers the entire process of corporate finance with a multi-agent model and serves more than 676,000 companies, becoming the core financial infrastructure for AI companies to go global.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s influence has further expanded after being included in the list last year. The open source of V3 and inference model R1 has profoundly changed the competitive landscape of global large models. The preview version of V4 released in April 2026 will further push model capabilities to new highs. A large number of developers and companies have used DeepSeek as infrastructure, and the prosperity of its open source ecosystem is in a leading position among large domestic models.
DeerFlow — ByteDance
ByteDance's open source super agent framework, 1.0, started in the Deep Research scenario. In February 2026, the completely rewritten version 2.0 evolved into a general agent operating infrastructure. After its release, it reached the top of GitHub Trending, accumulating more than 77k stars. It is one of the most influential projects in the open source Agent field in 2026.
eclicktech
eclicktech uses Global Growth AI OS as its core technology architecture, integrating AI models, global data and market contacts into a set of continuously iterative intelligent growth systems. The system can intelligently gain insights into user preferences and cost levels in multiple regions around the world, and select the right opportunity and market to enter. It relies on global creative production capacity to produce multi-language and localized content on a large scale, and efficiently selects popular materials through multi-version parallel testing. The intelligent delivery system tracks conversion data in real time, and dynamically adjusts budget, crowd and material strategies. From market insights, content production to precise delivery, full-link AI collaborative drive enables every connection between brands and users to generate real growth value.
Feishu — ByteDance
Either being subverted or reinventing itself, AI Agents do not leave many opportunities for traditional platforms. Developing products for Agent, Feishu may be the fastest office platform to implement this concept. After OpenClaw became popular, the official plug-in was quickly launched in early March. In order to make it easier for Agents to use Feishu better, Feishu Cli was launched at the end of March, and the function of exporting documents in markdown format was also updated later. Today's Feishu is already an office assistance platform that Agents can freely use. It may also be one of the platforms with the most complete support for Agent tool calls among domestic enterprise collaboration products.
Floatboat
Context is everything, and Floatboat is a desktop Agent product launched with this concept in mind. Turn the entire computer into the Agent's running environment. File management, browser and task dialogue occur on the same interface, and the user's complete workflow can be completed in Floatboat. In the Agent era, more context means better delivery capabilities.
GenFlow
GenFlow is a general-purpose agent jointly launched by Baidu Wenku and Baidu Netdisk. It can schedule a large number of multi-modal AI agents such as Office Agent, and truly realize one-stop AI content creation. The latest version of GenFlow 4.0 is designed to provide more accurate understanding and memory capabilities throughout the entire task cycle. Word, PPT, and Excel can be generated at one time and transferred in one stop. At the same time, it supports cross-device operations, workspace collaboration and Skills open accumulation, encapsulates the library network disk's own capabilities into standardized callable open capabilities, and can continuously evolve and iterate, stepping out of the boundaries of its own products.
Gongji Computing
An elastic computing power platform established in Tsinghua University in 2023. The Gongji Computing have advanced third-party computing power aggregation from resource matching to standardized serverless services, and initially proved that independent computing power platforms can also handle the kilo-calorie traffic peak of AI applications. This goes beyond the scope of a simple computing power matching platform and begins to assume the responsibilities of deployment, scheduling, billing, expansion and stability, and substitutes third-party idle computing power into the actual production environment of AI applications.
happycapy
Happycapy was launched in January this year and took the top spot on Product Hunt’s monthly list in February. At that time, it was the time when all kinds of lobster Claw products were emerging. Now that those products have pivoted, the cloud universal agent track that happycapy is betting on has become a popular track.
No installation is required, it works right out of the box, and through a user-friendly GUI, anyone can easily handle programming, design, and various daily tasks. It just gives Agent a cloud computer, but the experience it brings is completely different.
HeyGears
HeyGears is a hard technology enterprise focusing on 3D printing using light curing and material jetting technology. Its business covers dental medical care, precision manufacturing, and full-color consumption. The company released the "world's first desktop 3D&UV printer" G1X in July 2026, which raised a crowdfunding amount of US$7.22 million, approximately RMB 50 million, within 24 hours, creating a new category of consumer 3D printing.
Kimi — Moonshot AI
In the past year, Moonshot AI has completed a simultaneous explosion of model capabilities and commercialization. The open source K2 series model capabilities rank among the first in the world. The full-mode K2.5's revenue exceeded the entire last year within 20 days of its launch. The 2.8T parameter K3 is not only second only to Fable 5 and GPT5.6 in terms of capabilities, it is also the open source model with the largest parameters so far. The Kimi Work desktop intelligent agent launched by it, combined with the Kimi web version and Kimi Code, and supporting products form a multi-scenario matrix. It is a domestic AI manufacturer with both technical and commercial strength.
Kling AI
One of the earliest products in the domestic video generation track to achieve large-scale commercialization. KeLing has been iterating rapidly in the past year. In April 2026, it launched the industry's first native 4K video generation and was used in Hollywood film and television production. In July, it launched a Pre-IPO round of financing, with the capital increase cap of this round reaching US$3 billion, setting a global AI video track financing record. From model capabilities to commercial realization to capital recognition, Kling AI has completed the most complete path for domestic AI videos.
Makera
Makera redesigns CNC, which originally belonged to factories and professional studios, into a piece of consumer hardware that ordinary creators can buy, put on their desks, and try to use. Launched over the past year, the Makera Z1 integrates automatic detection, quick tool changes, enclosed dust collection, cameras and multi-material processing capabilities for about $1,000 and has attracted more than $10 million in Kickstarter support, attracting a large number of first-time CNC users. It has provided preliminary evidence that desktop CNC has the opportunity to follow the path 3D printing has taken, from professional equipment into home workshops.
MemTensor
As agents move towards cross-session and long-term tasks, the memory layer is becoming a critical infrastructure. The open source memory operating system MemOS launched by Memory Tensor turns "memory" from an implicit by-product of model operation into a schedulable and evolvable core resource, solving the continuity problem of Agent in cross-session and long-term task scenarios. In the past year, the team has continued to promote product iteration and open source ecology, and has become a highly recognized team in domestic Agent memory infrastructure.
Noitom Robotics
Noitom Robotics, which has accumulated more than ten years of motion capture experience, quickly found its position as a data infrastructure company after entering the embodied intelligence track. In the past year, the company independently completed multiple rounds of financing and launched the ModalityNet platform and three types of human-centered data sets, with a planned annual production capacity of 450,000 hours. At a stage when embodied intelligence generally lacks high-quality motion data, Noitom robots take over the key position on the supply side.
OKKI
As the foreign trade AI under Alibaba International Station, OKKI (Xiaoman Technology) has completed the transformation from a foreign trade CRM manufacturer to an AI customer management platform. In 2025, OKKI launched the intelligent agent OKKI AiReach and the new version of OKKI CRM for foreign trade marketing and customer management scenarios. One year after its launch, it helped merchants complete 890 million professional tasks, and the chance of transaction conversion increased by 43.48%, becoming an industry demonstration of the large-scale implementation of intelligent agents and clear results.
This year, OKKI has further extended its Agent capabilities to include website building marketing, inquiry acceptance, sales follow-up and other aspects, allowing each customer interaction and business results to become a unique asset of the company.
OmniMind
OmniInfer focuses on AI infrastructure layer (OmniInfer) and end-side agents, providing complete capability output from model deployment, inference optimization to end-side agents for AI hardware manufacturers and consumer electronics companies. The upcoming Taste is a card-sized physical memory device that continuously senses the environment and performs tasks across devices. At present, Wanxiang Zhiwei has cooperated with more than 10 large enterprises and is one of the few companies in China that has the ability to implement both end-side infrastructure and terminal products.
Open Design
The new product of the Refly team is an open source version launched quickly after Claude Design, but it is not limited to this. It is a highly complete work that integrates templates, skills, agents, etc., and dispatches the user's local programming CLI to generate designs. It has 31 built-in design skills and 72 sets of brand-level design systems, which lowers the threshold for using AI design in the form of a lightweight tool layer.
Qwen — Alibaba
Qwen is a series of open source large models launched by Alibaba, covering general language, code, mathematics, multi-modality and other directions. Its comprehensive capabilities continue to be at the forefront of the world among open source models. In the past year, a large number of open source projects have adapted to Qwen by default, and Qwen has become the most relied upon underlying model in the domestic open source AI ecosystem. Qwen is also one of the few model teams that continues to maintain open source in various parameter sizes and various modes.
Seedance 2.0 — ByteDance
The AI video generation model launched by ByteDance is also the most surprising video generation model in the industry in the first half of 2026. It has even single-handedly accelerated the commercialization progress of the video generation industry. It will be iterated to version 2.5 in June 2026, with extended generation time and new editing functions. Seedance is the underlying capability of the Byte content ecosystem, and it is also the most outstanding comprehensive performance among the current domestic video generation models.
Sharpa
The full-stack AI robot company started with "direct-drive transmission + haptic priority" dexterous hand technology, and has now expanded to a complete embodied intelligence platform covering dexterous hands, full-body humanoid robots and self-developed AI models. SharpaWave is the starting product of Sharpa and is currently recognized by the industry as one of the commercially available dexterous hands that is closest to the human hand. The full-body robot North completed fully autonomous table tennis playing and windmill assembly in more than 30 steps for 4 consecutive days at CES 2026, which is one of the longest continuous autonomous operation tasks in a public demonstration.
Tabbit — Meituan
It takes courage to insist on making a browser product in 2026, and it is an AI browser, but the Tabbit team has completed this task quite well. Officially launched in public beta in March 2026, it has been updated to more than 15 versions. It started with simple chat and gradually turned to a product that supports local folder operations and reconstructs the browser experience with Agent capabilities as the core. It is a browser, but it is a different Agent product.
TapNow
The video Agent track is one of the tracks that has clearly outperformed PMF in the past year, and TapNow is a typical representative product among them. The multi-model aggregation, video-first Agent Canvas interaction form provides a complete workflow for video production from creativity to final product, with a lower creation threshold and a shorter commercial video production cycle. Users can complete the entire creative process from storyboards to finished films without switching between different tools.
TETROBOTICS
A rare "old robot company re-starting a business" in this wave of embodied intelligence entrepreneurship is born out of the precision manufacturing company Changying Precision. It operates independently in 2021 and focuses on force-controlled robotic arms for humanoid robots. In May 2026, a total of RMB 1 billion in Series B and B+ rounds of financing were completed, with a post-investment valuation of nearly RMB 10 billion. Its self-developed MEMS joint torque sensor solves the force sensing problem of robotic arms. Mass production and delivery will begin in 2025. Its customers cover 45 humanoid robot manufacturers. It is one of the few parts suppliers in the embodied intelligence industry that has achieved large-scale shipments.
Tezign
Tezign Technology is an enterprise-oriented Agentic AI company. It is one of the earliest companies in China to provide enterprise-level Agentic solutions. The core product GEA (Generative Enterprise Agent) released this year integrates the company's previous technology accumulation into an enterprise-level Agentic AI platform. Its orchestration layer is driven by a self-developed divergent reasoning model (China's first large model registration in the field of divergent reasoning), promoting the upgrade of enterprise AI from a single point tool to a business intelligence agent. GEA has been deployed in more than 180 global leading companies and is a representative of the domestic enterprise-level AI Agent track that has penetrated the product into the business results layer.
WorkBuddy — Tencent
WorkBuddy is a representative product of desktop AI agents this year. Based on its own Harness framework, it quickly connects to many excellent domestic open source models, desktop Agent products for the general public, and is also compatible with mainstream open source ecosystems such as skills and MCP. After the model capabilities and user expectations match each other, product capabilities are established, and growth will follow.
Xiaomi MiMo
MiMo V2 drew everyone's attention to Xiaomi's large model, and MiMo V2.5 is a bit of a surprise. Quickly filling in shortcomings and providing proprietary support for Agent long-range tasks, coupled with open source MiMo-V2.5-TTS, MiMo-V2.5-ASR and other models, MiMo has further enriched the domestic small and medium-sized model ecosystem, and together with Qwen and DeepSeek, forms the core lineup of current Chinese open source models.
X Square Robot
X Square Robot is a company focused on self-developed "universal embodied intelligence large models". It is the only domestic embodied model company that has received simultaneous investment from Meituan, Alibaba, Byte, and Xiaomi. Its self-developed world unified model WALL-B puts all capabilities such as vision, language, movement, and physical prediction into the same network for joint training from scratch. It has the ability to be natively multi-modal, understand physical laws, predict evolution, and self-evolve in real physical interactions. X Square Robot also teamed up with 58 Home to launch the world's first large-scale robot-based home service, facing the industry's recognized most complex environment.
XTEINK
XTEINK is a rare product-defining case in the field of consumer hardware in the past year, and it is a new Chinese consumer hardware product that has quickly completed the initial verification of globalization. It does not rely on a larger screen, higher configuration or a more complete content ecosystem to open the market. Instead, it attaches a low-cost, ultra-thin ink screen to the back of the phone, giving users an additional entrance to read when picking up the phone. This solves the problem of e-readers being difficult to carry around and infrequently used in a smarter way.
Z.AI
In January 2026, Zhipu was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and became the first large model stock in the world. The GLM series models continue to iterate to GLM-5.2, ranking in the forefront with Anthropic and OpenAI in the comprehensive evaluation. So far, Token Plan is hard to find; the AutoGLM agent covers more than 80 million terminal devices, and AutoClaw has become the first local OpenClaw client in China that can be installed with one click. The GLM architecture is currently adapted to more than 40 domestic chips, and more than 50 overseas platforms such as Cursor have actively accessed it. It is a representative domestic enterprise that has simultaneously established technological competitiveness and business ecology based on original large-scale model architecture.
