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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.
Always-on cloud AI agent that runs multi-step workflows and monitoring on a dedicated 24/7 VM to automate business tasks.
Searchable directory of open-source AI agent 'skills' (SKILL.md files) for developers building with Claude, Codex, or ChatGPT agents.
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.
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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
- ✦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
- ✦Full-text search across millions of indexed SKILL.md files
- ✦Browse skills by creator or by occupation category
- ✦Inspect GitHub source links for each skill before use
- ✦REST API access to the skill catalog
- ✦One-click running of skills inside supported agent platforms
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦Access to premium OpenAI models
- ✦Daily free credits
- ✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
- ✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
- ✦Invite-based bonus credits
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →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
- →Finding an existing agent skill instead of writing one from scratch
- →Comparing similar skills across different creators
- →Building custom search or analytics on top of the skill catalog via API
- →Discovering skills relevant to a specific job function
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
- →Solve complex reasoning problems
- →Occasional AI use on free daily credits