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Chinese open source AI in December 2025 was about the stack coming together: open, end to end, and ready to ship 🔥
https://huggingface.co/collections/zh-ai-community/december-2025-china-open-source-highlights
✨ Big wave of foundation models: still scaling, but efficiency, reasoning, and deployment now matter more than size
- DeepSeek-V3.2
- Z.ai GLM-4.7
- MiniMax-M2.1
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash
✨ Multimodal reasoning is now default
- Z.ai GLM-4.6V
- Z.ai AutoGLM-Phone 9B
- Bytedance: Dolphin-v2
✨ Image & video: editable assets and real workflows
- Qwen-Image-Layered / Image-2512
- Meituan: LongCat-Image & Image Edit
- AIDC: Ovis-Image-7B
- Live-Avatar / LongCat-Video-Avatar
- HY-WorldPlay / RealVideo
✨ Audio goes edge ready
- GLM-ASR-Nano / Fun-ASR-Nano
- GLM-TTS / VoxCPM1.5
- CosyVoice 0.5B
✨ The quiet backbone: data & infrastructure
- Finch (FinWorkBench)
- Tencent ARC: TimeLens-100K
- BIGAI: TongSIM-Asset
- MiniMax: VTP-Base
✨ Also congrats on Minimax and Z.ai announced their IPOs and Moonshot announced a new $500M funding round 🔥
Like everyone else, I was OOO at the end of December, so feel free to share (in comments or PR) any I missed in this list!
https://huggingface.co/collections/zh-ai-community/december-2025-china-open-source-highlights
✨ Big wave of foundation models: still scaling, but efficiency, reasoning, and deployment now matter more than size
- DeepSeek-V3.2
- Z.ai GLM-4.7
- MiniMax-M2.1
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash
✨ Multimodal reasoning is now default
- Z.ai GLM-4.6V
- Z.ai AutoGLM-Phone 9B
- Bytedance: Dolphin-v2
✨ Image & video: editable assets and real workflows
- Qwen-Image-Layered / Image-2512
- Meituan: LongCat-Image & Image Edit
- AIDC: Ovis-Image-7B
- Live-Avatar / LongCat-Video-Avatar
- HY-WorldPlay / RealVideo
✨ Audio goes edge ready
- GLM-ASR-Nano / Fun-ASR-Nano
- GLM-TTS / VoxCPM1.5
- CosyVoice 0.5B
✨ The quiet backbone: data & infrastructure
- Finch (FinWorkBench)
- Tencent ARC: TimeLens-100K
- BIGAI: TongSIM-Asset
- MiniMax: VTP-Base
✨ Also congrats on Minimax and Z.ai announced their IPOs and Moonshot announced a new $500M funding round 🔥
Like everyone else, I was OOO at the end of December, so feel free to share (in comments or PR) any I missed in this list!