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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.
Free crowdsourced benchmark that pits top AI models head-to-head on design tasks and ranks them by public votes.
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
- ✦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
- ✦Side-by-side model output comparison
- ✦Public voting on results
- ✦Leaderboards ranking AI models by 'taste'
- ✦Coverage of websites, games, 3D, UI, images, logos, SVG, video and slides
- ✦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
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Compare which AI model produces the best design output
- →Track AI design model rankings
- →Discover models for a specific creative task
- →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