AI LANDSCAPE · CHINA & US · 28 AUGUST 2026
AI Landscape — China & US
From model companies and tech giants to compute suppliers and government, two interactive maps put the competition, the partnerships and the capital on the same sheet of paper. Click any node to isolate its own network.
China's Large-Model Landscape
14 nodes · 22 relationships
The platform giants, the independents, and the listed and pre-listing model companies.
Open the map → United StatesThe US AI Landscape
12 nodes · 25 relationships
The incumbents, the frontier labs, the compute arms dealers — and, this year, the government on the field.
Open the map →WHAT CHANGED IN THIS VERSION
- DeepSeek is no longer the lab that never raised. A first external round of about RMB 51bn in June, a valuation near $74bn by July, and an IPO in preparation.
- The “six tigers” are no longer one weight class. Moonshot's pre-IPO target of $50bn is nearly four times the listed MiniMax; Baichuan and 01.AI have left frontier training.
- Two new arrivals from outside the list. Xiaomi's MiMo took the OpenRouter weekly crown; ModelBest started its IPO tutoring process.
- “US incumbents don't build frontier models” has been overturned. Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are all training in-house again.
- The IPO race is over. Anthropic goes alone; OpenAI's CFO has moved it to 2027.
- Government is now a node on the map. The Pentagon blacklist, and the 27–28 August ruling that struck it down.
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