China’s AI chip companies dominated the 2025 Hurun China AI Top 50 ranking, occupying seven of the top ten spots, with Cambricon, Moore Threads, and MetaX leading the list.

The ranking highlights that 10 of the 18 newly added companies focus on AI chips, reflecting China’s push for self-reliance amid the US export restrictions on high-end AI hardware.

The report notes the market share of Chinese open-source AI models rose from 1.2 percent at the end of 2024 to nearly 30 percent in some cases, based on third-party usage data.

Most listed firms are relatively young, averaging 12 years since founding, with the youngest established in 2023, mainly working on large models for AI-generated content.

🔗 Source: Xinhua