These are flagged in the encyclopedia for data sovereignty and political alignment reasons. Use Western alternatives instead. See vendors-chinese-avoid.
DeepSeek ⛔ — Use Claude, GPT-4o, o3 instead
Qwen / Alibaba ⛔ — Use Claude, Gemini instead
Doubao / ByteDance ⛔ — Use Claude, ChatGPT instead
Kimi / Moonshot ⛔ — Use Gemini for long context
Ernie / Baidu ⛔ — Use ChatGPT, Gemini
MiniMax ⛔ — Use ChatGPT, Veo, Sora
Kling ⛔ (video) — Use Runway, Sora, Veo
Zhipu GLM ⛔ — Use Claude, Mistral
Tencent Hunyuan ⛔ — Use any Western alternative
Quick decision flowchart
Need general AI assistance?
├── Writing-heavy → Claude
├── Want all-in-one (images, video, voice) → ChatGPT
├── Already in Google Workspace → Gemini
└── Want free + private → DuckDuckGo AI
Need to make images?
├── Best art → Midjourney
├── Easy + free → Canva or Microsoft Designer
├── Text inside images → Ideogram
└── Self-host → Stable Diffusion / Flux
Need to make video?
├── Pro project → Runway or Sora
├── Quick social media → Pika or Luma
└── Avatar with script → HeyGen or Synthesia
Need code help?
├── Terminal user → Claude Code
├── VS Code user → Cursor
└── Just autocomplete → GitHub Copilot
Need to make presentations?
├── Fast AI generation → Gamma
├── Most polish → Beautiful.ai
└── Most design control → Canva
Need to edit video?
├── Pro (free!) → DaVinci Resolve
├── Podcaster → Descript
└── Long-to-short → Opus Clip