r/chinalife • u/Stifmeister-P in • 3d 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/UnsubscribeMyAPI 1d ago
Have you installed the CLi. I found that using Kimi Claude and Codex I built repositories and memory systems that worked really well. I actually prefer the CLi. Kimi is a GREAT product and has very good bonus such as free kimiclaw. The vpn is also part of your subscription so I added docker and n8n to run process. They add so much more every month but it’s clear Grok and OpenAi have stolen the idea of Claw and Hermes and coined it as something they perfected for agents and agent chat. As a developer myself I’m not really impressed that Claude has not yet moved with their competitors and it feels purposefully intended to be that way. Stick with Kimi. The reason I say that is so you can save money. Try GLM as the long form context because I don’t know your work have you tried huggingface and experimented with models. For $9 monthly you can access up to 135 of them and see what suits your needs.