Cheetah Mobile

Cheetah Mobile is a Chinese internet company known for its utility and mobile tool applications, notably recognized in the context of Chinese tech "going global" as a pioneer of the free-tool model that sought markets overseas starting around 2012 . The company's co-founder and former president, Xu Ming (徐鸣), left to establish GalaxySpace in 2018, a satellite internet venture that has since become a prominent player in China's commercial aerospace sector . In the LLM era, Cheetah Mobile's CEO Fu Sheng has remained a visible figure in industry debates, notably engaging in a public disagreement with investor Zhu Xiaohu in mid-2023 over the scale of opportunity in China's generative AI market . The company has also been cited among Chinese firms active in the Middle East and North Africa region alongside other social and content platform companies .