Time Magazine Lists ByteDance, Zhipu AI, Alibaba Among Top Influential AI Companies; Citi Raises AI Market Forecast

Time Magazine included Chinese companies ByteDance, Zhipu AI, and Alibaba in its '10 Most Influential AI Companies of 2026' list. Meanwhile, Citigroup increased its 2030 global AI market forecast to $4.2 trillion, citing faster-than-expected enterprise AI tool adoption and strong revenue growth from startups like Anthropic.

Tue Apr 28 2026

Time Recognizes Chinese AI Firms Among Most Influential

Time Magazine's '10 Most Influential AI Companies of 2026' list features three Chinese companies: ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok; Zhipu AI, founded by Tsinghua University researchers; and Alibaba. Other companies on the list include Amazon, OpenAI, Alphabet (Google's parent company), Meta (Facebook's parent company), Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Mistral. ByteDance has transformed into a core AI technology giant with its multifunctional AI assistant, Doubao, boasting over 155 million weekly active users, and plans to purchase $14 billion worth of chips from Nvidia.

Zhipu AI Achieves Breakthrough with Huawei-Powered LLM

Zhipu AI, the first listed Chinese large language model (LLM) company, went public in Hong Kong in January. In February, the company unveiled GLM-5, a large model with 744 billion parameters trained entirely on Huawei processors, which has reportedly surpassed competitors like Google Gemini 3 Pro in some benchmark tests. Zhipu AI's models currently support over 4 million enterprise users and developers from 218 countries and regions.

Citi Upgrades Global AI Market Forecast to $4.2 Trillion

Citigroup has raised its forecast for the global artificial intelligence (AI) market, predicting it will exceed $4.2 trillion by 2030, up from its previous estimate of over $3.5 trillion. This revision is attributed to the faster-than-expected adoption of AI tools by enterprises for coding and automation, as well as strong revenue growth from AI startups such as Anthropic. Citi estimates that approximately $1.9 trillion of this market will be related to enterprise-level AI. The bank highlights that Anthropic is a leader in enterprise AI, demonstrating strong momentum in software development, task automation, and agent workflows, with about 80% of its revenue coming from enterprise clients.

*Source: AASTOCKS.com, 信報網站 (2026-04-28)*

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