Author: Digital Life Karzak
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It's 2025 now, and my public account is about to celebrate its second anniversary.
Over the past two years, thanks to the support of fans and brand partners, I have tested countless open and closed AI products, and the total amount of confidentiality agreements I have accumulated is close to 20 million...
But if you ask me, what is the most frequently asked question in the past two years?
It must be "Kage, do you have any AI tools that can XXX? What kind of XXX AI is this?"
In 2023, I wrote a collection of recommendations, but now it's 2025.
To meet everyone's needs, today I bring you the most useful AI products (2025 version).
This time, I will use 9 categories to recommend the best products in each category.
Really, you don't need to look at those recommendations anymore, just read this one, it's enough.
The 9 categories are:
Al Chat, Al Search, AI Programming, Al Drawing, Al Sound, AI Music, Al Video, AI 3D.
Let's get started.
I. AI Chat
> 1. DeepSeek
Website: https://chat.deepseek.com/
In the AI Chat category, DeepSeek is definitely the first choice, the hottest AI phenomenon product of 2025, trending daily.
From 80-year-old elders to 10-year-old children, everyone knows about it, truly a phenomenon-level product. Its capabilities don't need to be elaborated, not only open-source, but the official product also has the strongest reasoning ability and can be connected to the internet. But the biggest drawback is...
Recently, I have also written 10 consecutive articles on DeepSeek, from a comprehensive review, to prompt word techniques, to non-collapse alternatives, etc.
An innovation at the national level, worthy of its reputation.
The prompt word techniques of DeepSeek are actually no techniques.
> 2. Doubao
Website: https://www.doubao.com/chat/
DeepSeek is strong, but it is only strong in its reasoning model and lacks multi-modal and voice calling capabilities, which are Doubao's strongest points.
Especially the super-realistic real-time voice model launched before the Spring Festival, which surpasses 4o in Chinese capabilities and personification, and can even sing. The visual understanding model is also very strong, and it also has drawing, programming, intelligent agents, etc.
Currently the most comprehensive AI Chat product.
> 3. Tencent Yuanbao
Website: https://yuanbao.tencent.com/
If it weren't for the fact that they just integrated DeepSeek R1 yesterday, I might not have recommended it in this article.
Although they staged the drama of McDonald's selling KFC, the DeepSeek R1+ with the unique Chinese quality of public account search has become a product that I now think not only can replace DeepSeek, but can even surpass it to some extent due to the quality of public account text when searching online.
Tencent Yuanbao has integrated DeepSeek, and it's on fire.
> 4. Zhipu Qingyan
Website: https://chatglm.cn/
The oldest evergreen among domestic large models, which was recently blacklisted by the United States.
Zhipu also has a reasoning model, that is, Zero, and its programming and mathematics are strong. The launch of AutoGLM (mobile) and GLM-PC (PC) makes me feel like I'm seeing science fiction, and they are currently the strongest Agents I've seen on the entire network.
Zhipu AI launched the new Agent GLM-PC at midnight, still at the peak.
> 5. ChatGPT (overseas product)
Website: https://chatgpt.com/
As the leader of the entire AI revolution, ChatGPT is still the first choice for many people. Currently, it supports reasoning models, search, multi-modal, file transfer, code writing, program running, image drawing, video calling...
It may not be the best in every function, but the overall experience is still the most comprehensive and balanced.
But it's expensive, $20 per month... While the domestic ones are almost all free, aren't they great?
II. AI Search
> 1. Metaso AI Search
Website: https://metaso.cn
Unlike AI Chat, this is the most native AI search experience.
As an AI search, you can limit the scope and channels, and do specific searches (including the entire network, document library, academics, podcasts, etc.).
You can even upload your own files to build your own knowledge base.
This wave also benefits from DeepSeek, which directly took off after integrating R1.
A method to use a non-lagging connected version of DeepSeek.
> 2. Nano AI Search
https://www.n.cn/
This is the initiator of integrating DeepSeek, with a low user threshold.
The product functions are really too comprehensive, supporting text, voice, photography and other search methods, able to analyze and process various content (PDF, video, recording), and automatically generate summaries and mind maps.
Really, as an AI search, it has everything.
> 3. Perplexity (overseas product)
Website: https://www.perplexity.ai
The oldest AI search product, and also the originator of the AI search form. Since it is an overseas product, you can use it to search for some English information. If you are searching for Chinese information, Yuanbao or Metaso is better.
III. AI Programming
> 1. Trae
Website: https://www.trae.ai/
The AI programming product I currently love the most, produced by ByteDance, with a fully Chinese interface, the first choice for pure beginners, limited-time free, and can be used to get Claude3.5 for free. But the problem is that it only supports Mac for now.
> 2. Cursor (overseas product)
Website: https://www.cursor.com/
Currently the hottest AI programming product, for professional developers, Cursor is the god-level tool that boosts efficiency.
It has two modes: Normal (focused on code writing) and Agent (integrated code writing, debugging and error correction).
In Agent mode, it can automatically extract relevant context information from the code base, quickly locate, and intelligently complete the code, with efficiency skyrocketing directly.
IV. AI Drawing
> 1. Jimeng
Website: https://jimeng.jianying.com/
One of the few that can directly output large chunks of Chinese text in AI-generated images, and the smart canvas is also the most user-friendly AI photo editing tool for beginners.
Here is the English translation of the text, with the specified terms preserved and not translated:Functional and easy to use, it can help you generate images of various styles, such as changing backgrounds, removing impurities, expanding images, and modifying local areas, which is extremely powerful.
> 2. Keli
Website: https://klingai.kuaishou.com/
Keli's AI image model, Keli.
I currently think the strongest Asian portrait, the quality is extremely high, the AI clothing change and model function are also the biggest features, which are indispensable for e-commerce, and can perfectly optimize the e-commerce promotion workflow.
Keli AI has quietly launched AI models at night, and they are going to revolutionize e-commerce.
> 3. Midjourney (overseas product)
Website: https://www.midjourney.com
Still the heaven of AI drawing, the strongest in aesthetics and the most comprehensive in functions, unparalleled. Waiting for Midjourney 7.0, which is said to be released at the end of January, but there has been no movement so far.
> 4. Liblib
Website: https://www.liblib.art/
The most comprehensive SD ecosystem website, gathering the most SD creators and model trainers in China, allowing ordinary players to quickly use SD to generate images without deployment, and also providing online LoRA training and online ComfyUI, further lowering the threshold.
V. AI Voice
> 1. Hailuo AI
Website: https://www.hailuo.ai/audio
The strongest Chinese voice today, the overseas version can clone voices, with full emotional tension, and can also recite poems. If you have a demand for Chinese voice cloning, Hailuo is the way to go.
> 2. 11labs (overseas product)
Website: https://elevenlabs.io
Apart from Chinese, the world's recognized strongest AI voice product, but in the Chinese aspect, it is really poor...
The AI sound effects of many products are also connected to the 11Labs family.
VI. AI Music
> 1. Suno (overseas product)
Website: https://suno.ai
It was popular last March, and Suno v3 was extremely impressive, but unfortunately the reputation of v4 is generally average, but it is still the best AI music generation product at present. It can generate music of various styles, support up to 4 minutes, and can also use your own voice to generate sound.
> 2. Haimian Music
Website: https://www.haimian.com/
Produced by Byte, the music generation should be based on the same base model as Douban, with a style that fits the current mainstream taste of the Chinese public, and the melody is also good. The main advantage is the low threshold, and the support for Chinese is also very good.
VII. AI Video
> 1. Keli
Website: https://klingai.kuaishou.com/
The pride of China, emerged on June 6, 2024, crushing everything, and when Sora really goes online, it's like a joke compared to Keli.
Keli 1.6 is the strongest and highest quality bucket-level AI video generation model today.
Kuaishou Keli 1.6 has officially launched, and they have once again surpassed themselves.
> 2. Hailuo AI
https://hailuoai.com/video
Emotional performance has been the synonym of Hailuo AI video so far, the first choice for AI video of characters. Its performance in character expressions, action continuity, and detail processing can be described as perfect, and even in this niche, it can surpass Keli.
The whole overseas market is about to be dominated by Hailuo AI.
> 3. Vidu
Website: https://www.vidu.cn/
Currently, it is almost the cheapest and most generous AI video. The 2D and 3D anime styles are extremely strong, which is the specialty of this field. The smoothness of the first and last frames and the camera movement is extremely smooth. If you want to specifically make AI videos in an animated style, Vidu is the right choice.
The newly launched Vidu 2.0 wants to make AI video affordable for everyone.
> 4. PixVerse
Website: https://pixverse.ai
A product that jumps out of the three realms of AI video, focusing on special effects templates, with its own efforts to ignite the AI special effects templates of toxic liquid and big muscles on Tiktok, topping the AppStore download list of Middle Eastern tycoons, quietly growing, if you want to feel the charm of AI special effects, then come and play PixVerse.
In the unnoticed blue ocean, PixVerse is stepping onto the path to the divine.
VIII. AI 3D
> 1. TripoAI
Website: https://www.tripo3d.ai/
I think the highest quality AI 3D model generation today, image-to-3D can get almost perfect replication, the v2.5 updated last month has even raised the details of textures and materials to an unparalleled level.
The strongest AI 3D model today, in my opinion, without a doubt.
With AI 3D, I finally realized my figure freedom.
> 2. Hunyuan 3D
https://3d.hunyuan.tencent.com/
Tencent directly open-sourced the 3D model in January, benefiting the public. And in terms of product completeness, it is extremely comprehensive, with low-polygon, rigged, sketch-to-3D, workflows, and even mini-game creation...
Most importantly, it's currently free, enough for everyone to play with.
In the end
This article, though it looks simple, was actually quite tiring to write by the end.
Here is the English translation:The workload is much larger than I expected, and I just glanced at the time, it's almost 6 AM.
It's dawn, time to sleep.
Before going to sleep, I suddenly had an urge to compare the article I wrote in November 2023, which had a table.
In a blink of an eye, 1 year and 3 months have passed.
Almost everything has changed.
Back then, there wasn't even the concept of AI programming, AI search was not that great, AI drawing was completely outmatched, AI videos had Pika at the peak, and large language models were dominating the domestic market.
Back then, domestic AI was still a joke.
But now, I want to say, times have changed.
Suddenly, I remembered a line from the recent Nezha movie.
If there is no path ahead, I will forge one!
If the heavens and earth do not allow it, I will overturn this world!
You see, how true these words are.
