East→West AI Tools
China & India AI tools for Western devs — license-checked, dated
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The Chinese TTS Stack, Licensed: CosyVoice (Apache) vs ChatTTS (Non-Commercial) — What You Can Actually Ship
ElevenLabs is great — but the best open TTS in 2026 is Chinese. Here's which Chinese TTS you can legally ship, with verified licenses.
Matthieu Lebas2 min read
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curl_cffi: The MIT Library That Beats Cloudflare Without a Browser
Playwright is heavy. curl_cffi impersonates Chrome's TLS fingerprint from plain Python — no browser, MIT license, 6,400+ stars.
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ms-swift: The Chinese Fine-Tuning Standard Western Devs Don't Know (600+ Models, Apache-2.0)
Unsloth and axolotl dominate in the West. In China, the standard is ms-swift by ModelScope — 600+ models, CPT/SFT/DPO/GRPO, Apache-2.0.
2 min1 day agoeast-west
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