Wednesday
January 7
2026

Chinese AI Unicorns Beat Silicon Valley Giants in Race to Go Public

By Kinling Lo

Two Chinese challengers to ChatGPT are set to go public this week.

Zhipu AI and MiniMax will debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 8 and 9, respectively, ahead of U.S. giants OpenAI and Anthropic. The two U.S. giants behind ChatGPT and Claude are laying the groundwork to go public this year, Reuters and Financial Times have reported.

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