Tiangong AI

Tiangong AI (天工AI) is the consumer-facing artificial-intelligence product brand of Chinese internet company Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维). It is built around Kunlun's in-house large language model family, marketed under the Tiangong (天工) name, and delivered mainly through a mobile app and web assistant that combine conversational chat, AI-powered search, and content-generation tools such as writing, summarization, and image creation. The brand is aimed at mass-market Chinese users rather than enterprise buyers, positioning itself as an everyday AI assistant and answer engine. The Tiangong brand emerged in the 2023 wave of Chinese large-model launches, when Kunlun Tech — historically known for browsers, game publishing, and overseas internet apps — repositioned itself as an AI company. Tiangong was introduced as one of the first domestic large models with a public-facing chatbot, and the company has continued to iterate the model and the app, adding search integration and multimodal features. Kunlun has described an "all-in AI" strategy, with Tiangong as its flagship consumer touchpoint alongside model-licensing and overseas AI products. Commercially, Tiangong AI competes in China's crowded consumer assistant market against offerings from Baidu, Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent-backed startups, and others. Its differentiation rests on Kunlun's own model stack, a search-plus-chat experience, and free-to-use consumer access, with monetization explored through subscriptions and integration with the parent's broader app portfolio. The brand is owned and operated by Kunlun Tech, a Shenzhen-listed company, and remains an active, evolving product line rather than a standalone company.

Tiangong AI is a product brand of Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维), a Chinese internet company founded by Zhou Yahui that built its business on browsers, web games, game publishing, and overseas consumer apps such as Grindr (later divested) and Opera-related ventures. When the global generative-AI boom began in late 2022 and Chinese firms raced to release domestic large models in 2023, Kunlun repositioned itself around AI research and products. The Tiangong (天工) brand was launched in 2023 as Kunlun's large-model family and public chatbot. It was promoted as one of the early Chinese large models open to general users, and the company emphasized that Tiangong was developed in-house rather than wrapped around a third-party model. The initial product was a conversational assistant; subsequent versions added longer context, improved reasoning, and multimodal generation. Kunlun then evolved the consumer offering into the Tiangong AI app, combining chat with AI search — an "answer engine" style experience that summarizes and cites web results — plus writing, translation, and image-generation tools. The company has described an "all-in AI" corporate strategy, with Tiangong as the flagship consumer brand alongside model licensing, AI music and video products, and overseas AI apps. Because the Chinese consumer AI market is highly competitive and largely free to users, Tiangong's trajectory has been shaped by rapid model iteration, app feature expansion, and marketing around benchmark performance. The brand remains owned and operated by Kunlun Tech, a Shenzhen-listed company, and continues to be updated as new model versions are released.

• 2024

  Kunlun Tech continues model iteration under the Tiangong brand and promotes an all-in AI strategy.

• 2023

  Kunlun Tech launches the Tiangong large model and public chatbot.

• 2023

  Tiangong AI app expands with AI search and content-generation tools.

Mass-market Chinese consumer AI assistant and answer engine built on Kunlun Tech's proprietary large models.

• Tiangong AI app

  Consumer assistant app combining chat, AI search, and content generation.

• Tiangong large language model

  Kunlun Tech's in-house LLM family powering the Tiangong products.

• 2026-08-20

  Kunlun Wanwei releases 2026 half-year report with revenue up 43.55% and net profit turnaround[2]昆仑万维发布2026年半年报，营收增长43.55%，净利润扭亏ai.zol.com.cn

  Reported: 2026-08-20

  Kunlun Wanwei Technology Co., Ltd. released its 2026 half-year report on August 20, 2026, reporting revenue of 5.359 billion yuan, up 43.55% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 1.088 billion yuan, a turnaround from a loss of 856 million yuan a year earlier. Overseas revenue reached 5.203 billion yuan, up 51.21%, and the company said its Tiangong AI business revenue rose quarter by quarter.

1. 1Titanium Media morning briefing (163.com repost)163.com
2. 2昆仑万维发布2026年半年报，营收增长43.55%，净利润扭亏ai.zol.com.cn