Collection
93 AI tools, ranked by rarity, with clear notes on China access and payment.
Talks about anything and does almost everything. Most people’s first AI card.
Strong at long-form writing and code, with careful, steady answers.
A leading open-weight model from China with strong reasoning. Free on the web.
Google’s multimodal model, wired into Gmail, Docs and the rest of Workspace.
Alibaba’s free assistant, formerly Tongyi Qianwen, that can also run tasks for you.
From xAI. Reads X (Twitter) in real time and has a looser personality.
Good at reading long documents and web pages. Drop in a PDF and ask.
ByteDance’s free assistant. Easy to start with, fine for everyday writing and Q&A.
Tencent’s assistant. It can search WeChat articles and fits neatly into the WeChat world.
Microsoft’s free assistant, built into Windows, Edge and Office.
One account for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more, handy for comparing models.
The chat assistant for Zhipu’s GLM models. Free, and good with long text and code.
Baidu’s assistant, strong on Chinese knowledge and tied in with search.
iFlytek’s model, strongest at voice input and education.
Mistral’s assistant from France. Very fast, with a generous free tier.