A year ago, DeepSeek was a leading competitor in the AI space, challenging American startups with its innovations. However, in just 12 months, DeepSeek has found itself trailing even within its own domestic market. Here are some of the top Chinese AI bots that have surpassed DeepSeek in performance and functionality:
1️⃣ GLM by Z.ai Z.ai, a startup focused on programming models, has introduced GLM-5, the most powerful open-weight model available today. With capabilities comparable to GPT-5.2 and Sonnet 4.6, GLM-5 stands out for its built-in code interpreter, agent mode, and a wide array of templates designed to help users build websites and simple apps.
2️⃣ Kimi by Moonshot AI The Kimi K2.5 model excels at handling complex tasks such as deep search, parsing extensive codebases, and analyzing disorganized data. It also offers useful tools for creating presentations, working with spreadsheets, coding, and even includes a dedicated environment for deploying the OpenClaw AI agent.
3️⃣ MiniMax AI Agent MiniMax presents its product as an all-encompassing AI agent capable of interacting with files directly on a user’s computer. In addition to this, the company is working on neural networks for video generation (Hailuo) and models for speech and music generation.
4️⃣ Qwen by Alibaba Qwen offers the most generous usage limits and an extensive range of products, including small open-weight models for local use, visual models, coding agents, speech generators, and some of the best AI image editors currently available in the Chinese market.
Which AI models are you using? 😎 — American ones 🎃 — Chinese ones
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