Hey Lobsters, welcome to this 5th edition of ShanghAI.

The goal of this weekly newsletter is to share my latest discoveries on Chinese AI models, that I dig directly from Chinese tech forums and WeChat accounts to provide you with exclusive insights.

Each week, I share you free tools examples that you can try to build by yourself and see if they can help your business grow.

Use these unknown models without living in China or speaking Chinese can be a tough task. Good news ? I am, and I can help you to reach them.

All of this, readable within 3 minutes, because I know you guys are busy.

After the lobsters, let’s talk about an unknown monkey.

Soon released on April 20, 2026, by Mobvoi (出门问问), Sequence Monkey is a specialized model designed for "Deep Water" scenarios-industries like Finance, Law, and Government where mistakes aren't an option.

The real differentiator? Local Elasticity. While most AIs rely 100% on the cloud, the "Pro" version of Sequence Monkey is optimized to run directly on your hardware's NPU (Neural Processing Unit).

It offers sub-second response times without ever sending your sensitive data to an external server. It’s the first model I've seen that successfully combines 100B+ parameter intelligence with total local privacy.

In an era where data leaks cost millions, this architecture is a massive competitive shield.

You can leverage Sequence Monkey 2.0 right now to build a High-Speed Financial Auditor that handles your most sensitive data, effectively replacing a $80k-a-year junior analyst with a secure, local-first system.

This creates a massive opportunity for Secure Financial Content & Analysis where you can feed private bank statements, "Top Secret" investment memos, or complex tax structures into the AI to generate full wealth strategies and automated video briefs-all without a single byte ever touching the cloud.

The workflow is a game-changer as Sequence Monkey Pro boosts document processing efficiency by +40%, allowing the model to not just read data, but "Visualize" it by turning a confidential 100-page audit into a 60-second high-end video briefing for your board in under 5 seconds.

The ROI is brutal: where a boutique consulting firm would charge you $10k and expose your data to their staff, the "Monkey" runs on your local node for $0, acting like a Senior Partner from Goldman Sachs locked in your basement, working 24/7 with zero risk of a leak.

The only thing stopping most people from using Sequence Monkey is the massive "China Wall" - the annoying Chinese phone number requirements, VPN lags, and broken setups that waste hours of your time.

I’ve spent the last weeks testing a specific workaround that lets you bypass the entire verification process and get the English interface running on your phone or laptop in under five minutes.

To showcase you that, I’ve developed a unique platform that lets you interact with all the unknown models I discuss in my newsletter.

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