Chinese AI tools for research and knowledge work

Products for long-context reading, search, documents, academic discovery, OCR, reports and knowledge-heavy assistant workflows.

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Products for long-context reading, search, documents, academic discovery, OCR, reports and knowledge-heavy assistant workflows.
Matched tools
51 tools currently match this use case.
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Prioritize products with search, document, long-context, OCR, research, academic or knowledge-assistant positioning.

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Prioritize products with search, document, long-context, OCR, research, academic or knowledge-assistant positioning.

51 matched tools

Kuaishou

Kling AI

4.7

Kling has an English-facing site and a broader creative and API platform beyond text-to-video generation.

Best fit · Creators, studios and growth teams that want a globally accessible Chinese creative studio for video, image, sound, effects and API-backed generation.

Coverage · 100/100

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Alibaba Cloud

FashionChameleon

3.8

FashionChameleon belongs in AI Video because it is specifically about real-time human-garment video customization, with clear relevance to e-commerce content creation and virtual try-on research.

Best fit · Researchers and e-commerce video teams tracking real-time virtual try-on, garment switching and human-centric video customization methods from Chinese labs.

Coverage · 100/100

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek

4.7

The English docs now make DeepSeek's current API shape explicit: V4-Pro/V4-Flash, dual OpenAI/Anthropic compatibility, thinking mode, tool calls, caching and agent-tool integrations.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese model APIs for coding agents, reasoning, tool use and OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible migration.

Coverage · 100/100

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 API

4.6

V4 is the current API line, with separate migration and pricing implications from the broader DeepSeek brand.

Best fit · Developers migrating DeepSeek integrations to current V4 model names and long-context reasoning workflows.

Coverage · 100/100

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek Agent Integrations

4.2

DeepSeek's English docs cover agent-tool integration as a documented path.

Best fit · Developers who want DeepSeek as a backend for coding assistants and terminal agents.

Coverage · 100/100

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OpenBMB

OpenBMB / MiniCPM

4.1

OpenBMB belongs in LLM & API as a Chinese open-source foundation-model ecosystem, with MiniCPM and MiniCPM-V as the main product signals tracked here.

Best fit · Researchers and engineering teams evaluating Chinese open-source models for edge inference, multimodal understanding, RAG and agent experiments.

Coverage · 100/100

Partially availablePartial English UITrusted

Qoder

Qoder

4.3

Qoder is a distinct AI coding product, so it fits better in a dedicated AI Coding category than in generic LLM/API or productivity buckets.

Best fit · Developers and engineering teams evaluating Chinese AI coding IDEs, Quest-style agent workflows and repository-aware coding assistants.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availableFull English UITrusted

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen

4.6

Qwen Cloud makes Qwen available for global evaluation through an English marketplace, docs, pricing and compatible API paths.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Qwen3.6, Qwen Cloud APIs, coding agents and multimodal Chinese model coverage from an English international platform.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availablePartial English UITrusted

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen Embedding / Rerank

4.0

Qwen Cloud includes retrieval infrastructure models, so Qwen coverage should include more than chat and generation.

Best fit · Teams building RAG, semantic search or ranking pipelines around Chinese and multilingual content.

Coverage · 96/100 · backfill: sources

Globally availableFull English UIPartial evidence

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

4.4

Model Studio is the platform layer for Qwen access and should be tracked separately from individual models or subscription plans.

Best fit · Developers comparing Qwen hosting, OpenAI-compatible migration and region-specific deployment options on Alibaba Cloud.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availableFull English UITrusted

SenseTime

SenseNova

4.3

SenseNova belongs in the model-platform layer because the official site combines model highlights, token-plan access and office-work positioning.

Best fit · Teams comparing a Chinese multimodal model platform with an office-work and agent-workflow focus.

Coverage · 100/100

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Moonshot AI

Kimi

4.5

Kimi has shifted from a long-context assistant profile into a broader AI workspace and agent ecosystem, so the site should track both user-facing features and the Kimi API platform.

Best fit · Users and teams evaluating a Chinese AI assistant for long documents, deep research, presentations, sites, spreadsheets and agentic work.

Coverage · 100/100

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Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 API

4.4

Kimi's developer path is now separated through K2.6 and the English API platform, so it should be distinct from the consumer assistant.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese long-context, coding and agentic models through an international API.

Coverage · 100/100

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Moonshot AI

Kimi Code

4.3

Kimi Code is tracked here as a separate AI Coding product rather than a navigation link or generic assistant feature.

Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese AI coding agents that can operate in terminals, IDEs and CLI-based software engineering workflows.

Coverage · 100/100

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Moonshot AI

Kimi Claw

3.9

Kimi Claw changes the product from chat to action, so it needs a separate risk and use-case profile.

Best fit · Teams researching Kimi's agentic execution and browser/workflow automation capabilities.

Coverage · 100/100

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Moonshot AI

Kimi WebBridge

4.1

Kimi WebBridge is a distinct local-browser bridge in the Kimi agent ecosystem, so it deserves its own evaluation profile separate from Kimi chat, Kimi Code and Kimi Claw.

Best fit · Teams evaluating local browser automation for AI agents that need existing login sessions without moving page content to a cloud browser.

Coverage · 100/100

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Moonshot AI

Kimi Slides / Websites / Sheets / Docs

4.0

Kimi's visible product surface now includes concrete artifact workflows, which changes how overseas users should evaluate it.

Best fit · Users evaluating Kimi as an office-style AI workspace rather than only a chat assistant.

Coverage · 96/100 · backfill: sources

Globally availableFull English UIPartial evidence

Zhipu AI

Z.ai BigModel / GLM

4.4

Z.ai now has an English product surface, while BigModel remains the API evidence base for the full GLM product line.

Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese multimodal model APIs, agent services and OpenAI-compatible migration paths.

Coverage · 100/100

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Zhipu AI

z.ai

4.1

It is the English-facing Z.ai consumer entry listed on the official site.

Best fit · Users who want to try GLM through an English web assistant before using APIs.

Coverage · 96/100 · backfill: sources

Partially availableFull English UIPartial evidence

Zhipu AI

AutoGLM

4.1

AutoGLM is a distinct Z.ai agent line and should not be hidden inside the generic GLM API entry.

Best fit · Teams researching China-origin autonomous agents and app-operation workflows.

Coverage · 96/100 · backfill: sources

Partially availablePartial English UIPartial evidence

Zhipu AI

Zread.ai

3.8

Zread.ai is a distinct developer-product entry on the English site, separate from GLM API and ChatGLM.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Z.ai for repository understanding and code discovery.

Coverage · 96/100 · backfill: sources

Partially availableFull English UIPartial evidence

Zhipu AI

AMiner

3.7

AMiner is an official product-family entry and helps distinguish research discovery from GLM assistant/API products.

Best fit · Users who need academic search and researcher discovery in the Z.ai ecosystem.

Coverage · 92/100 · backfill: sources, access signals

Globally availablePartial English UIPartial evidence

Ant Group

Ant Ling

4.2

Ant Ling now has enough English-facing product, docs, pricing and integration evidence to be tracked alongside Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese model APIs for long context, coding agents, reasoning models and OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible migration.

Coverage · 100/100

Partially availableFull English UITrusted

Ant Group

Ring

4.1

Ring has a coding-agent and tool-use profile that fits AI Coding better than the generic Ant Ling entry.

Best fit · Teams comparing Chinese reasoning and coding-agent models for tool orchestration, repository work and long-horizon autonomous execution.

Coverage · 100/100

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MiniMax

MiniMax API Platform

4.4

The international docs show MiniMax as a full multimodal API platform rather than only a Hailuo video product.

Best fit · Developers who want one China-origin platform for coding models, speech, video, image, music and multimodal agent tooling.

Coverage · 100/100

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MiniMax

MiniMax Audio / Speech

4.3

MiniMax Audio deserves a separate profile because the official API docs cover a mature speech product line beyond general model chat.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese speech synthesis, voice cloning and multilingual audio generation APIs.

Coverage · 100/100

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Meituan LongCat

LongCat-AudioDiT

4.2

LongCat-AudioDiT belongs in AI Audio because it is a direct-text-to-speech and voice-cloning model with released code and weights, not a generic research paper.

Best fit · Researchers and speech teams evaluating open-source TTS, waveform-latent diffusion and zero-shot voice cloning.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: freshness

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MiniMax

MiniMax Image API

4.1

MiniMax Image API fills the image modality in MiniMax's international multimodal stack.

Best fit · Developers adding Chinese image generation to apps through a documented API.

Coverage · 98/100 · backfill: sources

Globally availableFull English UIPartial evidence

Baidu AI Cloud

ERNIE / Baidu Qianfan

4.1

Baidu now has English model communications through the ERNIE Blog, while Qianfan remains the main platform when enterprise platform, agent orchestration and China-cloud deployment matter.

Best fit · Enterprises and developers already evaluating Baidu Cloud, China-local deployment, agent platforms or ERNIE multimodal models.

Coverage · 100/100

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Baidu AI Cloud

ERNIE-Image

3.9

ERNIE-Image is a distinct Baidu image-model signal from the ERNIE Blog and should be tracked separately from the general Qianfan model platform.

Best fit · Researchers and builders comparing Chinese open or semi-open text-to-image model families.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: pricing

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Tencent Cloud

Tencent Hunyuan

4.1

Hunyuan is strategically important because Tencent combines cloud APIs, global cloud billing, a broad open-source model organization and a newly global 3D creation engine.

Best fit · Developers and enterprises comparing Chinese model APIs, Tencent Cloud integration, 3D asset generation and open-source model deployment.

Coverage · 100/100

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Tencent Cloud

Hy3 Preview

4.3

Hy3-preview is the English-documented Hunyuan open LLM profile.

Best fit · Teams evaluating open Chinese reasoning and agent models with long-context deployment requirements.

Coverage · 100/100

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Tencent Cloud

Tencent Hunyuan Open Models

4.2

The open-source organization helps show Hunyuan's model breadth beyond Tencent Cloud APIs.

Best fit · Developers surveying Tencent's open-source model assets across LLM, video, image, 3D and OCR.

Coverage · 100/100

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ByteDance / Volcano Engine

ByteDance Seed / Doubao Ark

4.2

ByteDance Seed is now a broad model portfolio rather than a single Doubao API entry, so it should be tracked as a foundation-model and model-platform family.

Best fit · Developers and teams comparing ByteDance's English-facing Seed model roadmap with commercial Doubao/Ark API access.

Coverage · 100/100

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ByteDance / Volcano Engine

Seed GR-3

4.0

Seed GR-3 belongs in LLM & API because it is a model-family signal on the official Seed page, not a standalone application.

Best fit · Teams tracking Chinese robotics foundation models and long-horizon vision-language-action systems.

Coverage · 98/100 · backfill: sources

Partially availableFull English UIPartial evidence

ByteDance / Volcano Engine

Seed GR-RL

3.9

Seed GR-RL belongs in LLM & API because it is a robotics-model family entry on the Seed page rather than a consumer product.

Best fit · Teams evaluating robotics reinforcement-learning approaches inside ByteDance Seed's public model roadmap.

Coverage · 98/100 · backfill: sources

Partially availableFull English UIPartial evidence

ByteDance / Volcano Engine

Seedream 5.0 Lite

4.3

Seedream 5.0 Lite is a distinct ByteDance Seed image-generation model and should not be hidden under generic Doubao/Ark.

Best fit · Designers and developers comparing Chinese image models with reasoning, online search and image editing capabilities.

Coverage · 100/100

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ByteDance / Volcano Engine

Seeduplex

3.9

Seeduplex gives ByteDance Seed a distinct voice-interaction profile beyond text, image and video models.

Best fit · Teams tracking Chinese full-duplex speech models, realtime voice agents and multimodal interaction research.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: pricing

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ByteDance / Volcano Engine

DeerFlow

4.3

DeerFlow belongs in Productivity because it is a SuperAgent harness broader than an AI coding agent: its core promise is long-horizon research, creation and workflow execution through skills, sub-agents and sandboxes.

Best fit · Teams that want to self-host a Chinese-origin open-source agent harness for deep research, report generation, coding, file-based workflows and long-running multi-agent tasks.

Coverage · 100/100

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Skywork AI

Skywork

4.2

Skywork should be tracked as a workspace platform because the public surfaces are organized around task-specific agents and output formats, not one generic chat flow.

Best fit · Knowledge workers who want one cloud workspace for research, writing, slides, sheets, websites and short-form media output.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: access signals

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Tencent Cloud

WorkBuddy

4.2

WorkBuddy belongs in Productivity because it is an office agent workspace rather than a general chat product or coding tool.

Best fit · Teams that want an office workspace agent for cross-app coordination, task execution and model routing.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: access signals

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ByteDance / Volcano Engine

Dola / Cici

4.1

Dola expands the site beyond developer APIs by covering China-linked international consumer assistant distribution.

Best fit · Overseas consumer users who want a free Chinese-built AI assistant with low registration friction.

Coverage · 100/100

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Huawei Cloud

Pangu / Huawei Cloud

4.0

Pangu's value is in vertical enterprise deployment, not frictionless global consumer access.

Best fit · Enterprises evaluating Chinese industry models, private deployment and Huawei Cloud/Ascend infrastructure.

Coverage · 98/100 · backfill: sources

Partially availablePartial English UIPartial evidence

iFlytek

SparkDesk / iFlytek Spark

4.0

Spark is strategically important for speech and vertical applications, while overseas consumer readiness remains limited.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese speech AI, education, healthcare or voice-heavy assistant workflows.

Coverage · 98/100 · backfill: sources

Partially availablePartial English UIPartial evidence

StepFun

StepFun / Step

4.3

StepFun is important because it combines multimodal model depth, open-source releases and device commercialization, but overseas usability still needs hands-on checks.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese multimodal models, open-source agent models, video/audio generation or device-side AI partnerships.

Coverage · 100/100

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StepFun

Step 3.7 Flash

4.5

Step 3.7 Flash is the current headline model on StepFun's platform homepage, so it deserves a dedicated profile instead of being buried inside the broader platform entry.

Best fit · Teams evaluating a flagship Chinese multimodal reasoning model for agentic coding, tool use, deep research and vision/video-aware workflows.

Coverage · 100/100

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StepFun

StepFun Open Platform

4.2

The English platform makes StepFun more actionable for overseas developers than a company-only profile.

Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese model APIs for text, reasoning, tool calling, multimodal generation and OpenAI-compatible migration.

Coverage · 100/100

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StepFun

Step Plan

4.2

Step Plan deserves a separate AI Coding entry because it is toolchain- and agent-workflow specific, not just a model API.

Best fit · Developers who want a predictable subscription quota for coding agents, long-context repository work and tool-calling automation.

Coverage · 100/100

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Xiaomi MiMo

MiMo-V2-Flash

4.5

MiMo-V2-Flash gives MiMo a concrete English-documented open-weight anchor with price, context, test and deployment details.

Best fit · Teams evaluating a low-cost open-weight Chinese model for coding agents, long-context tasks and API/self-hosted comparison.

Coverage · 100/100

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Xiaomi MiMo

MiMo Speech Models

4.0

MiMo now has enough English-facing speech signals to deserve a separate audio profile.

Best fit · Teams watching Xiaomi's speech stack for ASR, TTS and voice-agent experiments.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: pricing

Partially availableFull English UITrusted

Xiaomi MiMo

MiMo-V2-Omni

3.9

The English MiMo site explicitly separates Omni from text, speech and Flash releases.

Best fit · Teams tracking Chinese multimodal-agent model families and Xiaomi's model roadmap.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: pricing

Partially availableFull English UITrusted

Why these tools qualify

Kling AI: Kling AI qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

FashionChameleon: FashionChameleon qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

DeepSeek V4 API: DeepSeek V4 API qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

DeepSeek Agent Integrations: DeepSeek Agent Integrations qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

OpenBMB / MiniCPM: OpenBMB / MiniCPM qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Qoder: Qoder qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Qwen: Qwen qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Qwen Embedding / Rerank: Qwen Embedding / Rerank qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

SenseNova: SenseNova qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Kimi: Kimi qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Kimi K2 API: Kimi K2 API qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Kimi Code: Kimi Code qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Kimi Claw: Kimi Claw qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Kimi WebBridge: Kimi WebBridge qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Kimi Slides / Websites / Sheets / Docs: Kimi Slides / Websites / Sheets / Docs qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Z.ai BigModel / GLM: Z.ai BigModel / GLM qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

z.ai: z.ai qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

AutoGLM: AutoGLM qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Zread.ai: Zread.ai qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

AMiner: AMiner qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Ant Ling: Ant Ling qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Ring: Ring qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

MiniMax API Platform: MiniMax API Platform qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

MiniMax Audio / Speech: MiniMax Audio / Speech qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

LongCat-AudioDiT: LongCat-AudioDiT qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

MiniMax Image API: MiniMax Image API qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

ERNIE / Baidu Qianfan: ERNIE / Baidu Qianfan qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

ERNIE-Image: ERNIE-Image qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Tencent Hunyuan: Tencent Hunyuan qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Hy3 Preview: Hy3 Preview qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Tencent Hunyuan Open Models: Tencent Hunyuan Open Models qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

ByteDance Seed / Doubao Ark: ByteDance Seed / Doubao Ark qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Seed GR-3: Seed GR-3 qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Seed GR-RL: Seed GR-RL qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Seedream 5.0 Lite: Seedream 5.0 Lite qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Seeduplex: Seeduplex qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

DeerFlow: DeerFlow qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Skywork: Skywork qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

WorkBuddy: WorkBuddy qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Dola / Cici: Dola / Cici qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Pangu / Huawei Cloud: Pangu / Huawei Cloud qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

SparkDesk / iFlytek Spark: SparkDesk / iFlytek Spark qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

StepFun / Step: StepFun / Step qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Step 3.7 Flash: Step 3.7 Flash qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

StepFun Open Platform: StepFun Open Platform qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

Step Plan: Step Plan qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

MiMo-V2-Flash: MiMo-V2-Flash qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

MiMo Speech Models: MiMo Speech Models qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

MiMo-V2-Omni: MiMo-V2-Omni qualifies because it is connected to search, long-context reading, documents, OCR, research or knowledge workflows.

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