But... there's Deepseek v3.2 in your link (rank 7)

Are you against inefficiency or just LLMs? If it's the former, I assure you LLMs are nowhere near the top of the list lol

You should start from beef industry.

They probably open sourced all the "safe" components everyone in the social media industry knows.

They most likely have some secret sauce that they don't release to public.

Missing a lot of companies from the Snowden leaks, to put it diplomatically.

Even China doesn't rely on controlling information from the user-side, they know any devices can be hacked lol. They rely more on controlling the server-side (WeChat, Douyin, Weibo, Bilibili, etc) and infrastructure (GFW).

Well mostly, aside from some exceptions like (allegedly) Apple's AirDrop limitations.

Many Chinese brands still support unlockable bootloader: https://github.com/melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...

Although going forward, there's a strong incentive for manufacturers to follow Google and lock their devices.