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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.
Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
Developer platform serving 200+ optimized LLMs via APIs; high traffic.
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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
- ✦Run open-source LLMs locally
- ✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
- ✦Open source and self-hostable
- ✦Model library via Hugging Face
- ✦Cross-platform desktop app
- ✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
- ✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
- ✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
- ✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
- ✦MCP tools and code execution
- ✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys
- ✦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
- ✦Access over 200 optimized models, including LLMs, image, video, and audio processing.
- ✦Achieve low-latency, high-throughput inference with SiliconFlow's self-developed acceleration frameworks.
- ✦Deploy models via serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, or reserved GPUs to suit various workloads.
- ✦Customize models to your data with built-in monitoring and elastic compute resources.
- ✦Ensure data privacy and business security with dynamic scaling and fault tolerance mechanisms.
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Quickly deploy various AI models via a simple API, supporting tasks like text, image, audio, and video processing.
- →Utilize serverless GPUs to automatically scale AI applications, ensuring flexibility and cost-efficiency.
- →Access high-performance GPUs for demanding workloads, such as large-scale inference and video generation.
- →Deploy custom models with guaranteed performance and scalability, tailored to specific business needs.