ModelBest
面壁智能
ModelBest (面壁智能) is a Chinese large language model startup led by CEO Li Dahai (李大海). Per a June 2026 panel at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence's industry forum, Li appeared alongside BAAI president Wang Zhongyuan and Galaxy Universal founder Wang He to discuss long-term value and the next curve in the large model era, with the conversation touching on whether scaling laws are evolving rather than失效 and the distinctive opportunities for Chinese AI .
In earlier partnership activity, ModelBest was named as a collaborator on two open-source initiatives: a legal-domain ChatGPT built on a Chinese-language 100-billion-parameter model, jointly developed with Tsinghua University's AI Research Institute, Zhipu AI, PowerLaw AI and OpenBMB as of March 2023 ; and Mooncake, a KVCache-centric large model inference architecture led by Moonshot AI and Tsinghua's MADSys lab with participation from AISoft, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Storage and others, announced in November 2024 .
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Jui Chan of BlueRun Ventures in Conversation with Wang Zhongyuan of BAAI, Wang He of Galaxy Universal, and Li Dahai of ModelBest: Long-Term Value and the Next Curve in the Large Model Era
From "Moats" to "Scaling's New Curve" in the Age of Foundation Models
BlueRun Ventures Headlines | Moonshot AI Partners with Tsinghua University and Other Institutions to Open-Source Mooncake, a Large Model Inference Architecture
The Mooncake technical framework has been officially released as open source.
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Why "Copy to China" Is Hard to Replicate, and Where China's LLM Opportunity Lies
Recently, Bai Zeren, Senior Investment Director at Linear Capital, sat down with *Jazzyear* to share his views on the entrepreneurial opportunities brought by ChatGPT. When it comes to the domestic market for large language model startups, Linear Capital remains optimistic. "While the engineering detours and challenges will take time to work through, the probability of Chinese companies producing something with 80% of ChatGPT's capabilities within two to three years is quite high — even if surpassing what OpenAI has already built will be difficult."
