Open Source China (Beijing Aosiyan Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.) was established in 2008 and is China’s largest open-source technology community and national code hosting platform. After 18 years of development and growth, Open Source China has built OSCHINA.NET, the largest open-source community in China, and Gitee, the world’s second-largest code hosting platform. Its open-source community has attracted over 13.5 million developers and 36 million code repositories, whilst Gitee serves more than 360,000 enterprise clients (ranking first in the DevOps market share). Open Source China has consistently focused on serving key sectors of the national economy, such as finance, defence and state-owned enterprises, helping governments and businesses achieve digital transformation. In recent years, it has successively become the contractor for the Ministry of Science and Technology’s open-source community development project and the lead organisation for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s code hosting platform. It operates R&D centres in Beijing, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, with R&D teams and branches in Shanghai, Jinan, Wuxi, Nanjing and Ningbo. Open Source China has been recognised as a “Specialised, Refined, Unique and Innovative (SRUI) Little Giant” enterprise; it has received strategic investments from renowned institutions including China Mobile Beijing Fund, China Internet Investment, State-owned Assets Reform and Innovation Fund, China Science and Technology Innovation Star, Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation, Shanghai International Venture Capital, Tianjin TEDA, Pudong Software Park, Baidu, Huawei and Lenovo. Having completed its Series C funding round, the company has secured over 1.6 billion yuan in strategic investment to date. Its Gitee DevOps product has obtained national information technology innovation certification and holds independent intellectual property rights for its source code. Since 2023, Open Source China has built upon its open-source heritage to co-create China’s AI ecosystem. It has officially launched the Moark large-model hosting platform, which aggregates the latest and most popular open-source AI models from around the world, providing a one-stop service for model evaluation, inference, training, deployment and application.
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