Models from China in 2026
29
Models
10 organisations
66%
Open weights
19 open, 10 closed
0
Frontier
By Epoch's flag
2.4T
Largest traceable
Qwen 3.8 Max
2026
Span
9 with a traceable size
Releases
by monthOrganisation
Records
29An 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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