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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.
General AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end — research, slides, design, browsing — instead of only answering questions.
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.
Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
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
- ✦Autonomous multi-step task execution
- ✦Website and app building
- ✦AI slides, design and image generation
- ✦Manus browser operator
- ✦Wide Research mode
- ✦Cross-platform web, desktop and mobile apps
- ✦AI bot detection
- ✦Transaction fraud protection
- ✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
- ✦Pull-based SMS MFA
- ✦Private Learning ML risk models
- ✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
- ✦Hundreds of integrations
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
- ✦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
- →Automate end-to-end digital tasks
- →Produce websites and presentations
- →Conduct broad research
- →Hand off browser tasks to an agent
- →Blocking bots and spam signups
- →Preventing account takeover
- →Reducing transaction and payment fraud
- →Stopping credential stuffing
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs