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Practical, sourced guidance for evaluating and using Chinese AI models, APIs and agents. Pillars are multi-chapter arguments; the guides below them are self-contained.

Pillar

Buying Chinese AI: Access, Contracts and Vendor Risk

Chinese models are easy to try and hard to buy. A procurement pillar on payment rails, contracting entities, licence terms, data residency and vendor risk.

Start here · 8 chapters
  1. How Foreign Teams Pay for Chinese AI APIs — chapter 1
  2. Who You Actually Sign With at Chinese AI Labs — chapter 2
  3. What Chinese AI Terms Actually Restrict — chapter 3
  4. Data Residency and Cross-Border Transfer for Chinese AI — chapter 4
  5. How to Spot a Chinese AI API Reseller — chapter 5
  6. Enterprise Onboarding at Chinese AI Vendors — chapter 6
  7. Self-Hosting vs API: A Cost Model That Survives Utilisation — chapter 7
  8. A Vendor Risk Register for Chinese AI Suppliers — chapter 8
Pillar

Choosing a Chinese AI Model by Workload

A selection method that starts from the task, not the leaderboard: five filters in order, the six workloads that differ, and when a cheap model is the wrong answer.

Start here · 8 chapters
  1. Choosing a Chinese Model by Price: Cache and Tiers — chapter 1
  2. Long-Context Model Selection: What 1M Tokens Really Mean — chapter 2
  3. Choosing a Multimodal Chinese Model: Vision and Video — chapter 3
  4. Choosing a Chinese Coding Model: Evidence, Not Claims — chapter 4
  5. Choosing a Chinese AI Agent: Models, Tools, MCP — chapter 5
  6. Choosing a Model for Document Extraction — chapter 6
  7. Choosing a Model for High-Volume Classification — chapter 7
  8. Build a 50-Item Eval Before You Choose — chapter 8

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