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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.
Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
Kimi is Moonshot AI's conversational assistant known for long-context chat, coding help, and agentic 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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Conversational AI assistant
- ✦Long-context document understanding
- ✦Coding assistance
- ✦Agent and plugin capabilities
- ✦Web and mobile app access
- →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
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Answering questions and research
- →Summarizing long documents
- →Writing and editing help
- →Coding support