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If you’re not running local — do you use Chinese commercial LLMs (Qwen / GLM / MiniMax / etc)?

Curious about the non-local path people actually take. When local isn’t an option (travel laptop, no GPU, need tools/API), do you reach for Chinese commercial APIs — Qwen, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek cloud, Kimi, etc. — or stick to the usual US labs? If you do use them: which ones, for what (coding vs c…

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  1. 2026-10-02 08:39 · r/LocalLLM
    If you’re not running local — do you use Chinese commercial LLMs (Qwen / GLM / MiniMax / etc)?

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