About this site
Daliocr writes about Chinese AI tools for people who are not in China: which model to call, what it actually costs, how the APIs behave when you use them from outside the country, and which workflow habits are worth copying.
Why write about this
A lot of practical knowledge about DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and the surrounding tooling gets written in Chinese, on Chinese platforms, and never travels. Not because it is low quality — because the people writing it are busy using the tools. This site exists to carry that practical layer across, with the numbers and gotchas intact.
Who writes it
Every guide here is written and signed off by a named person, seki. I build software for small businesses and for myself — personal sites, WeChat mini programs, mobile apps — and for the last few years most of that has meant wiring an AI model into something a real customer has to use every day. That is where these notes come from. Picking a model is not a benchmark question; it is a bill, a latency budget and a support thread.
The other thing I do is Chinese divination — the received systems, not a modern invention. Different trade, same discipline: read the original text, record which version you read, commit to what the system predicts, and keep the cases where it misses. It is also why I am suspicious of any guide, in either field, that does not say when its numbers were checked.
How a guide gets made
- Pricing, model names and limits are read from the vendor's own documentation, never from a search result. Each table carries the date it was checked.
- Anything claimed to work was run. If a number is estimated rather than measured, the text says so.
- Drafts are assisted by the models being written about. The factual layer — prices, flags, output shapes — is verified by hand before publishing, and a human owns the mistakes.
- When a vendor renames a model or changes a rate, the post gets an updated date rather than a quiet rewrite.
Tell me I am wrong
Chinese AI tooling moves faster than any site can track. If a price here is stale or a method stopped working, that is a bug and I want the report: [email protected]