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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.
Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
Open-source platform to build, deploy and monitor agentic AI workflows and RAG apps, with cloud, self-host and enterprise options.
Always-on cloud AI agent that runs multi-step workflows and monitoring on a dedicated 24/7 VM to automate business tasks.
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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
- ✦LPU custom inference hardware
- ✦GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
- ✦High-speed, low-latency inference
- ✦Pay-as-you-go token pricing
- ✦Free API key to start
- ✦Broad open-model support
- ✦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
- ✦Visual workflow studio for agents
- ✦RAG knowledge pipelines
- ✦Agent runtime with tools and memory
- ✦Marketplace of models and plugins
- ✦Publish as app, API or MCP tool
- ✦Logging, analytics and monitoring
- ✦Always-on agent on a dedicated 24/7 VM
- ✦Multi-step task automation (docs, PPT, video, research)
- ✦Proactive monitoring with alerts and actions
- ✦Shared/self-improving agent knowledge network
- ✦Page deployment and drive storage
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Building AI agents and chatbots
- →Creating RAG-based knowledge apps
- →Deploying LLM apps at enterprise scale
- →Automating recurring business workflows overnight
- →Generating reports, documents and presentations
- →Monitoring uptime, pricing or metrics with auto-actions
- →Running research and content tasks hands-off