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source_title: "How Savvy Companies Are Using Chinese AI"
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# China's 'Six Little Tigers'

**China's 'Six Little Tigers'** is a collective term for a wave of fast-growing Chinese generative-AI challengers rapidly shaping the country's landscape. The group comprises: **[[entity-01-ai|01.AI]], Zhipu AI, [[entity-moonshot-ai|Moonshot AI]], MiniMax, Baichuan AI, and StepFun**.

**Enrichment (canonical presences):** Zhipu AI — zhipuai.cn; MiniMax — minimax.ai; Baichuan AI — baichuan-inc.com; StepFun — stepfun.ai. It is an informal label used in business and policy commentary for a cohort collectively shaping the domestic LLM landscape.