MiniMax is a leading Chinese AI company in 2026, offering a full-stack multimodal model family including advanced text (M2.1), video (Hailuo 2.3/Fast with lifelike motion), speech, music, and agentic tools. It excels in high-quality text-to-video, image-to-video, character consistency (S2V-01), and developer APIs/MCP Server. With over 150M users, it provides free trials/credits on Hailuo AI platform, paid API plans, and targets creators, developers, and businesses for intelligent content generation.
Qwen Chat is a multifunctional AI platform offering chatbot capabilities, multimodal understanding, image generation, document processing, web search, tool utilization, and artifact creation.
ai.meta.com is Meta's 2026 AI hub showcasing Llama 4 (Scout & Maverick) natively multimodal models with massive context (up to 10M tokens), mixture-of-experts architecture, and billion-scale performance. Powers Meta AI assistant across WhatsApp/Messenger/Instagram/web, plus tools like AI Studio for custom AIs, Vibes immersive AI videos, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) for precise object tracking in images/videos, and research like V-JEPA 2. Open-weight downloads available; free consumer access via apps; ideal for developers building multimodal agents, creators making personalized content, and everyday users chatting/creating with "personal superintelligence."
Wenxin Yiyan (yiyan.baidu.com), also known as ERNIE Bot, is Baidu's flagship multimodal AI chatbot in 2026, powered by advanced ERNIE 4.5 (native multimodal) and ERNIE X1 (deep reasoning) models. It offers free access for individuals with strong Chinese proficiency, multimodal capabilities (text, image, audio, video), content generation, and integration into Baidu ecosystem. Ideal for Chinese users, students, professionals needing high-accuracy Chinese AI, reasoning, and creative tasks at low/no cost.
A free online platform powered by GPT-4o models for AI chat, text generation, and image interactions.
Wenxin Yiyan (Ernie Bot) is Baidu's flagship free AI chat platform in 2026, powered by advanced Ernie models (4.5 Turbo, X1) for multimodal tasks including text generation, image/video creation, search, and reasoning. It offers unlimited free access since 2025, strong Chinese performance, multilingual support, and enterprise API at low cost. Ideal for everyday users, content creators, and businesses needing high-quality, affordable AI assistance.
Xinghuo is a leading Chinese AI cognitive large model platform in 2026 by iFlytek, powered by Spark X1 (MoE architecture) with multimodal capabilities including text, voice, image, video generation, deep reasoning, and 130+ languages support. It excels in education, enterprise workflows, creative content, and intelligent agents with free Lite API, low-cost Pro/Max plans, and apps across devices. Ideal for users needing high-accuracy Chinese/English processing, math/logic, and hybrid human-AI tasks.
Google Gemini is the leading multimodal AI assistant in 2026, powered by the advanced Gemini 3 series models (Flash default, Pro/Deep Think for premium). It excels in reasoning, coding, image/audio/video understanding, and integrations across Google ecosystem. Free access via web/mobile with Gemini 3 Flash; premium Google One AI Pro/Ultra unlocks Gemini 3 Pro, higher limits, and 2TB storage—ideal for students, professionals, and developers.
ChatGLM.cn (智谱清言) is Zhipu AI's (Z.ai) flagship multimodal AI assistant in 2026, powered by advanced GLM-4.7 series models for superior Chinese-English dialogue, writing, coding, image understanding, document analysis, and creative tools like PPT/poster generation. It offers web/mobile access, thinking/research modes, web search, and high performance in reasoning/code/vision tasks. Free basic use available with API/pricing on bigmodel.cn—ideal for students, professionals, developers, and Chinese-optimized AI needs.
x.ai is the company behind Grok, the leading truth-seeking AI companion in 2026, powered by frontier models like Grok 4.1 and Grok 4 series for advanced reasoning, coding, real-time search, multimodal vision, voice, and image generation. Accessible via grok.com, mobile apps, and X integration, it offers free limited access with SuperGrok subscriptions for enhanced capabilities. Ideal for deep work, developers, businesses, and users seeking unfiltered, witty, and maximally truthful AI assistance.
ModelScope is Alibaba DAMO Academy's leading open-source AI model hub in 2026, hosting tens of thousands of models for NLP, CV, audio, multimodal, text-to-video, and more. It features easy inference/demo, datasets, tools, community contributions, and MaaS (Model-as-a-Service) for seamless exploration, fine-tuning, and deployment. Free access with online demos/notebooks makes it ideal for developers, researchers, and enterprises seeking cutting-edge Chinese/global AI models like Qwen, GLM, Tongyi series.
360 AI (360智脑) is Qihoo 360's comprehensive AI platform in 2026, featuring the 360智脑 large language model with multimodal capabilities including text generation, image creation, video, voice, and long-context processing. It integrates deeply into the 360 ecosystem (browser, search, security), supports enterprise vertical models, and offers free public access with advanced features. Ideal for everyday users, developers, and businesses needing secure, trustworthy Chinese AI for chat, creation, office, and security scenarios.
