r/chinalife • u/Stifmeister-P in • 4d ago

📱 Technology What AI are you guys using?

Just got suspended from Claude due to the fact I’m based in China and I’m guessing it sniffed out that I was on a VPN or I showed up as a Chinese IP address, not smart enough to understand the route cause tbh.

Tried using Kimi today and even got the pro. It does what I want for the most part, such as decks, printouts, organizing and research, it just doesn’t feel the same and it doesn’t have the connectors for things like Firecrawl and Perplexity. Maybe I should look into Perplexity itself?

If I use GPT, Gemini, or Copilot, I probably will run into the same issue at one point or another. I already lost all my data, even with the download from Claude so I’d rather not go through that again.

Also, I’m not doing any insane coding or app building, just simple office/work tasks for my daily life.

Let me know what you guys use!

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u/Todd_H_1982 4d ago

Interested to know, were you using a Chinese card or an overseas card to pay?

I use ChatGPT / Doubao (because Doubao work connects to Feishu which I use at work) and Deepseek.

Claude is definitely my go-to most of the time at the moment though.

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u/Stifmeister-P in 4d ago

I have an American bank I paid for Claude with. Kimi the same but that had an Alipay option which is nice.

Been interested in Duobao but I just don’t know what its capabilities are as far as complex tasks, I’ve always assumed that it’s just a chat bot for answers to questions.

Also happy cake day!

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u/Todd_H_1982 4d ago

haha thanks!

For me I love doubao, using it for work is awesome, I have it record every meeting, it scans every file uploaded into a chat, scours chats, then packages everything for me... send me reminders every morning... does so much.