mPicks
Recommended tools, services, and hardware optimized for researchers and developers.
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WgetCloud Premium SLA VPN
Premium SLA high-availability private line service for seamless, ultra-fast access to global streaming and AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini). The business and professional first choice.
DG Cloud Budget Any-Protocol VPN
Global exclusive Any protocol for high-performance and budget-friendly acceleration of dev workflows, academic downloads, and HD videos. Cross-platform universal support.
Xiaomi MiMo Open Platform
Experience Xiaomi's top multimodal large-scale model MiMo V2.5. New accounts get ¥10 API trial credit and 10% off the first order (code applied automatically, credit valid for 40 days). High-performance AI capabilities.
Tencent Cloud Server & TokenHub
2C2G4M servers from ¥99/year. Deployed on overseas servers, mainland China users can safely command their OpenClaw, Hermes, or DeepSeek-TUI agents via WeChat/Lark to safely retrieve overseas web resources and data. Features TokenHub for speech, reasoning, and 3D generation.
Qoder AI Coding Agent
An agentic development platform from Tongyi Yunqi (Alibaba). Multi-agent coordination spans a desktop IDE, a terminal CLI and cloud agents that plan, execute and deliver coding tasks, with additional workflows for legal, finance and HR work.
Kimi AI Assistant (Moonshot AI)
Moonshot AI's Kimi assistant, built on the K-series long-context models for literature reading, long-form writing and agentic coding. New accounts get a 7-day membership credit; log in to Kimi shortly after signing up to claim it.
QClaw WeChat AI Assistant
Tencent's remote-work AI assistant for WeChat. Dispatch tasks to it from chat and pick the work back up on macOS, Windows, iOS or Android.
ima Tencent AI Knowledge Assistant
Tencent's ima builds a personal knowledge base from your own documents and lets you ask questions across it, with desktop and mobile clients. The link opens a limited-time invite campaign for compute credits.
Alibaba Cloud Deals Mini-site
Alibaba Cloud's discount mini-site, covering LLM token plans, cloud servers, storage and AI developer tools. A practical entry point when you need hosting or model API credits for a project.
