China’s AI firms take spotlight with deals, low-cost models

BEIJING (Reuters) – Alibaba’s announcement this week that it will partner with Apple to support iPhones’ artificial intelligence services offering in China has again thrust the spotlight on the country’s AI industry on the heels of DeepSeek.

Following are some of the prominent AI services and their developers to watch in China.

DOUBAO

Developed by ByteDance, a latecomer to the large language model (LLM) market, the namesake chatbot is the most popular consumer AI app in China.

The…