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Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.
Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
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- ✦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
- ✦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 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
- ✦Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
- ✦HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
- ✦BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
- ✦BLOOMWORKS product
- ✦Industry AI deployment case studies
- ✦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
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Deploying generative AI in enterprises
- →Applying ML to industry-specific problems
- →AI-driven business transformation (DX)
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately