For years, the generative AI conversation was dominated by a handful of Western giants. Then DeepSeek crashed the party.

But DeepSeek is not an anomaly. It is one visible part of a rapidly growing ecosystem of open weight models, coding agents, and media generation models.

This session goes beyond benchmark drama and geopolitical hot takes. We will put DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, and others to work on real developer tasks. We will test coding agents, compare text and media generation, and see what can run locally or fit into familiar development workflows.

We will also look honestly at cost, licenses, privacy, censorship, and platform risk. The conclusion will not be “China won” or “nothing to see here.”

Come for the benchmark drama. Leave with a practical map of an AI ecosystem developers can no longer afford to ignore.