Chinese Open-Weight Models: Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM

The four Chinese labs the channel actually covers, side by side. This isn't a geopolitics course and it isn't a "they're copying Claude" think piece. It's the model-card summary, the routing decision, and the honest answer to "which one wins when" — Kimi as a model you wire in (skip the hosted wrapper), Qwen as the local-inference champion with a credible Plus cloud tier, DeepSeek as the family that puts reasoning *inside* the tool call, and GLM 5.1 as the new "Opus-at-the-McDonald's-price" play that just got 140% more expensive.