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This app is a masterclass in hypocrisy dressed up as innovation. It markets itself as some bold, independent Chinese AI company, yet it bends over backwards to enforce American sanctions against Russian users. You can't even pay for the subscription with a Russian card or Apple ID — they block the entire country while pretending to be a neutral alternative to Western tech. Pick a lane: either you're independent or you're a compliance puppet for US foreign policy. You can't be both. Performance is atrocious. Responses crawl out at a glacial pace, and just when you think the conversation is building momentum, the app hits you with a paywall for basic agent features that competitors offer more fluidly. The "free" tier is essentially a demo designed to frustrate you into subscribing — except if you're Russian, in which case they don't even want your money. They just want you gone. The pricing is insulting. $19 a month for what? A slow chatbot that gatekeeps research and coding tools behind a subscription, then geo-blocks entire nations based on Washington's blacklist? Grok and other models manage to operate without this performative cowardice. If Moonshot AI is so terrified of secondary sanctions, maybe they should stop cosplaying as an independent player and admit they're just another walled garden with a geopolitical spine made of jelly. 1 star. Not because it fails as software, but because it fails as a principle. Delete.

It claims every code it sends me is invalid. Impossible to link account to phone number. Vibecode vibes!.