Sorted Out: All World Model Companies in China - 6 Technical Paths, 4 Post

China World Model Startup Panorama Report (2026 First Release)

The first panoramic research report on World Model startups in China is here.

In 2026, the World Model track will explode completely —

Jijia Vision was valued at 20 billion yuan in just three months. Bulage Technology was valued at 13.5 billion yuan one month after its establishment. Manifold AI completed six rounds of financing totaling nearly 1 billion yuan in one year and became a unicorn. Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital, and Tencent are vying to invest, and the national major industry fund has entered the scene. Founders born in the 2000s have frequently made headlines.

However, beneath the hustle and bustle, no one can clearly explain the real problems:

How many companies in China are working on World Models? How many technical routes are there? Who is just pretending and who has real capabilities? What's the gap compared with foreign counterparts?

We spent several weeks starting from the companies labeled "World Model" in the IT Juzi database, cleaning and eliminating irrelevant targets, and supplementing missed cases across the whole network. Finally, we identified 33 World Model startups in China.

The report covers:

📊 Complete list of 33 companies: Establishment time, location, financing, valuation, technical routes

🗺️ Classification of 6 technical routes: From native World Models to VLA integration, from 3D space to physical AI simulation

👥 In - depth portraits of founding teams: Those from big tech companies, academic backgrounds, 2000s - born founders...

🌍 Comparison with typical foreign World Models: 7 giants such as Google Genie 3, NVIDIA Cosmos, World Labs, and 6 startups

The total financing has exceeded 26 billion yuan. There are 7 unicorns, and 85% of the companies were established after 2023. The first - wave landscape of World Model startups in China has become clear.