Every Chinese AI Model Explained (In 8 Minutes)

China is quietly beginning to dominate the leaderboards. While the

mainstream conversation remains focused on ChatGPT, an entire army of

eight elite AI agents has emerged with the ability to think, code, and create

with human-level precision. Baidu’s Ernie 5.0 recently claimed the top spot

on the LM Arena leaderboard, effectively outperforming both Claude and

ChatGPT in a multimodal environment where text, images, and audio are

processed natively through a unified architecture. Alibaba has followed suit

with its Qwen 3 family, offering a strategic mix of one-trillion parameter

monsters and lightning-fast models that utilize sparse mixture of experts to

maximize efficiency.