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Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted open-source AI assistant in Go that runs on sub-$10 hardware like Raspberry Pi with under 10MB RAM.
AI research lab building multimodal 'omni' foundation models and infrastructure aimed at robotics and physical-world applications.
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- ✦Single API for 500+ image, video and audio models
- ✦Pay-per-generation billing with no subscription
- ✦No charge on failed tasks
- ✦Workflows, agents and studio tools
- ✦MCP and CLI integrations, white-label option
- ✦Hosted inference for many open models
- ✦Simple REST/OpenAI-compatible API
- ✦Pay-per-token or per-time billing
- ✦On-demand GPU rental
- ✦Broad catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, etc.)
- ✦DeepStart and DeepCluster tooling
- ✦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
- ✦Single self-contained binary requiring under 10MB RAM
- ✦Sub-1-second startup even on low-power processors
- ✦Support for 16+ chat channels including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WeCom
- ✦Compatibility with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, etc.)
- ✦Runs on Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64, Android, and Docker
- ✦Self-hosted design keeping data and configuration local
- ✦Gateway/API mode for connecting to chat platforms via MCP protocol
- ✦Omni multimodal model research and development
- ✦Real-time inference API (Infer) for enterprise use
- ✦Video tagging, search, and clipping infrastructure
- ✦Training data generation from egocentric and robotics footage
- →Building apps on top of many generative models via one API
- →Generating images, video and audio at scale
- →Cutting model API costs versus direct providers
- →Deploying white-label AI generation studios
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Running a private AI assistant on minimal or embedded hardware
- →Local code assistance that keeps proprietary code off the cloud
- →Home automation and personal task scheduling via chat bots
- →Privacy-conscious users wanting self-hosted AI on low-cost devices
- →Powering robotics perception with multimodal AI
- →Running large-scale video search and analysis via API
- →Sourcing specialized training data for frontier AI models