An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.
Foundation models & agents
Kai-Fu Lee's Chinese LLM lab behind the Yi and Yi-Lightning models. Last priced at ~$1B in 2023; in March 2025 stopped pre-training its own models to refocus on enterprise AI applications using DeepSeek.
| Name | 01.AI |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Yi, Lingyi Wanwu |
| Space | Foundation models & agents |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Latest valuation | $1B |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | Beijing |
| Founders | Kai-Fu Lee |
| Website | https://www.01.ai |
| Careers | — |
| — | |
| X / Twitter | — |
| Date | Round | Amount ($M) | Valuation | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | $1B | reported |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | added | 01.AI added to tracker Latest valuation: $1B. | — |
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| Lab | Valuation | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Character.AI | — | 2021 |
| MBZUAI / Institute of Foundation Models | — | 2019 |
| Perplexity | $20B | 2022 |
| Sierra | $15B | 2023 |
| MiniMax | ~$11.5B | 2021 |
| Zhipu AI | ~$6.6B (mkt cap) | 2019 |
| Hark | $6B | 2025 |
| StepFun | ~$6B | 2023 |