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AI Analytics1,072 recordsRecounted 23 September 2026

Open-weight models from China in 2021

8

Models

7 organisations

100%

Open weights

8 open, 0 closed

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Frontier

By Epoch's flag

11B

Largest traceable

PLATO-XL

2021

Span

6 with a traceable size

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Records

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Open-weight models from China in 2021, newest first. Each row links to the source Epoch AI records for it.
ModelOrganisationReleasedParametersWeights
Swin Transformer V2 (SwinV2-G)Microsoft Research Asia2021-113BOpen
base LM+GNN+kNNShannon.AI2021-10274MOpen
PLATO-XLBaidu2021-0911BOpen
TrOCRBeihang University2021-09558MOpen
YOLOX-XMegvii Inc2021-0899M *Open
Zidong TaichuChinese Academy of Sciences2021-083BOpen
ERNIE 3.0Baidu2021-0710BOpen
CogViewTsinghua University2021-054B *Open

An asterisk marks a parameter figure the source does not consider traceable to the people who built the model. That judgement is the source’s and it has false negatives: Kimi K3 is marked speculative at 2.8T while Moonshot’s own model card states the figure. Why that distinction carries the whole exhibit.

Counts are of models Epoch AI records as notable, not of every model released. The most recent month is always incomplete, because a model enters the dataset when it is reviewed rather than when it ships.

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