Tool tag: Chinese AI

Kling 3.0

Kuaishou's closed-weight video family, launched February 5, 2026. Four SKUs across video and image, clips of 3–15 seconds with natively generated audio.

Vidu Q3 Pro

ShengShu's flagship Vidu Q3 Pro video model, announced January 30, 2026. Generates up to 16 seconds of 1080p video with native audio in a single pass.

Z-Image

Alibaba Tongyi-MAI's 6B open-source image model. Z-Image-Turbo, released November 26, 2025, generates 8-step images inside 16 GB of VRAM under Apache 2.0.

HunyuanImage 3.0

Tencent's 80B-parameter MoE image model, released September 28, 2025. Natively multimodal and autoregressive, under a restricted community license.

Seed1.5-VL

ByteDance Seed's standalone vision-language model: a 532M vision encoder with a 20B active-parameter MoE, top results on 38 of 60 public VLM benchmarks.

Wan2.1 (Alibaba)

Alibaba's open-weights video foundation model, Apache 2.0 licensed and widely supported via ComfyUI. Superseded by Wan2.2, which is also open-weights.

Minimax (Hailuo AI)

MiniMax's AI video generation platform known for exceptional physical motion quality and fast generation speeds for high-fidelity cinematic video clips.

Kling AI

Kuaishou's AI video platform, known for realistic human motion and high-fidelity image-to-video conversion. Now running the Kling 3.0 model family.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek's AI platform offering frontier-class reasoning and coding at disruptive prices with a powerful free web interface and high-speed API endpoints.

Doubao (豆包)

ByteDance's multimodal AI assistant, combining chat, image and video generation, and agents. Free to use; available internationally as Cici.