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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
All-in-one digital-safety subscription protecting families from identity theft, fraud and online threats, with parental controls.
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
Agentic AI platform with a coding desktop app, CLI, and cloud agents for autonomous software development and office work.
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
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- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦Identity theft protection with insurance
- ✦3-bureau credit monitoring and lock
- ✦Antivirus, VPN and password manager
- ✦Online data removal from brokers
- ✦Parental controls and safe-gaming alerts
- ✦Dark-web and financial-fraud alerts
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦Multi-agent collaboration for end-to-end tasks
- ✦Persistent memory and custom rules
- ✦Extensible skills and plugins
- ✦Rich context across code, images, and directories
- ✦Automatic codebase documentation generation
- ✦Terminal-native CLI and JetBrains IDE plugin
- ✦Cloud-hosted agents for enterprise use
- ✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
- ✦Hailuo AI video generation
- ✦Speech and music generation models
- ✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
- ✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
- ✦Open API and Token Plan for developers
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Protecting against identity theft
- →Monitoring family credit and finances
- →Keeping kids safe online
- →Removing personal data from broker sites
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Autonomous feature development in large codebases
- →Terminal-based AI pair programming
- →Cross-department task automation for legal, finance, HR
- →Onboarding developers to unfamiliar codebases
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs