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The Chinese AI tiger focused on math and healthcare
HQ: Beijing, China | Founded: 2023 | Employees: ~130 (2026, est.) | Stage: Late Stage VC (~$2.7B valuation) | Website: https://www.baichuan-ai.com
Baichuan Intelligence was founded in April 2023 by Wang Xiaochuan, the legendary founder and former CEO of Sogou (China's search and input-method company, acquired by Tencent in 2021). Wang emerged from retirement to chase AGI, and Baichuan became one of China's six 'AI Tigers' — the elite group of privately funded foundation-model companies racing DeepSeek and ByteDance.\n\nBaichuan moved early and openly: its Baichuan-7B and Baichuan-13B open-source models (mid-2023) were among the first serious open Chinese LLMs and built international credibility, and its Baichuan 2 and Baichuan 3 series kept the model line competitive. But the company's defining bet is differentiation: rather than fight DeepSeek and Moonshot head-on in general chat, Baichuan focused on mathematical reasoning — releasi
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