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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.
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
General AI agent executing tasks and integrating thousands of apps; very high traffic.
AI-focused cloud offering NVIDIA GPU compute, storage and MLOps tooling for training and inference at scale, with usage-based pricing.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
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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
- ✦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
- ✦Create presentations, websites, reports, slides, documents, podcasts images & videos
- ✦Conduct deep research on any topic
- ✦Command a virtual computer to browse the web
- ✦Connect and automate with over 2700+ apps
- ✦NVIDIA GPU instances (H100, H200, B200, GB200)
- ✦On-demand and preemptible GPU pricing
- ✦High-performance and object storage
- ✦Managed Kubernetes and Slurm (Soperator)
- ✦Serverless and managed inference (Token Factory)
- ✦MLOps tooling and 24/7 expert support
- ✦Commitment discounts up to 35%
- ✦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 AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Generate a high-conversion landing page for a startup's ebook.
- →Build a web-based image cropper tool with live preview.
- →Create a beginner-friendly PDF cheatsheet for Python.
- →Develop a one-week travel itinerary for a destination like Vietnam.
- →Analyze social media mentions and sentiment for a specific entity.
- →Organize hiring task submissions from emails into a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
- →Clone a pixel-perfect website for design accuracy and responsive web experience.
- →Make a podcast on the rise of SpaceX, make it conversational and include fun facts.
- →Train large AI/ML models on GPU clusters
- →Run scalable inference workloads
- →Store and manage large training datasets
- →Run Slurm/Kubernetes AI pipelines
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand