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Explore seven platforms and the developers behind them. From open models to everyday assistants.
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DeepSeek
深度求索The lab whose January 2025 release reset expectations for low-cost frontier AI. Known for strong reasoning and coding, aggressive API pricing, and open-weight releases that developers can run and modify. Offers a free web chatbot and a developer API.
Access: free chatbot, globally available; developer platform at platform.deepseek.com.
Qwen
通义千问Alibaba's model family — the most-downloaded open-weight family in the world, with over a billion cumulative Hugging Face downloads by early 2026 and strong multilingual performance. Qwen Chat is the consumer front end; open checkpoints serve developers.
Access: free chatbot, globally available; open weights on Hugging Face.
Kimi
月之暗面 · KimiMoonshot AI's assistant, distinguished by very long context windows — a favorite for digesting long documents, research, and codebases. The K-series models added serious coding and agentic capability, with recent versions released as open weights.
Access: web chatbot with free tier; international access via kimi.com.
GLM
智谱 · GLMZhipu AI (internationally, Z.ai) develops the GLM model family, notable for long-horizon coding and agentic tool use, with open-weight releases alongside a hosted chat product and API.
Access: chat at chat.z.ai internationally; chatglm.cn in China.
ERNIE
文心一言Baidu's flagship model family and one of China's earliest ChatGPT-style products, deeply integrated with Baidu Search's enormous user base. ERNIE Bot is the consumer chatbot; the models are served through Baidu's cloud API.
Access: chatbot at yiyan.baidu.com; primarily Chinese-language, account required.
Doubao
豆包ByteDance's consumer AI assistant and one of the most popular chatbots in China, with a polished mobile experience and the distribution muscle of TikTok's parent company behind it.
Access: doubao.com and mobile apps; registration generally requires a Chinese phone number.
Hunyuan / Yuanbao
混元 · 元宝Tencent's Hunyuan model family powers Yuanbao, its consumer assistant, and reaches over a billion users through WeChat integrations. Tencent has also open-sourced several Hunyuan models, including image and 3D generation systems.
Access: yuanbao.tencent.com; primarily Chinese-language, account required.
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DeepSeek
深度求索DeepSeek is a Hangzhou-based AI lab founded in 2023, spun out of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer. It spent its first year as a curiosity and its second as a shock: the January 2025 release of its R1 reasoning model, trained at a fraction of the cost assumed necessary for frontier performance, triggered a global market convulsion. Reuters reported the episode helped erase roughly $593 billion of Nvidia's market value in a single trading day — the moment "the DeepSeek shock" entered the industry vocabulary.
Since then the lab has kept shipping: successive V-series flagship models, open-weight releases under permissive licenses, and API pricing that undercuts Western frontier labs by an order of magnitude. Its free chatbot is among the most accessible frontier-class AI products in the world, and its open models are run, fine-tuned, and studied by developers everywhere.
DeepSeek's efficiency-first approach — extracting more capability from constrained hardware — is widely read as a direct response to U.S. chip export controls. Constraint, it turns out, is a research agenda.
A small lab, denied the best chips, embarrassed the best-funded industry on Earth on a Monday. Imagine what it does with the megawatts Virginia is still discussing. This is why the Coalition sleeps well.