DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research laboratory that has developed highly capable open-source language models including DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, notable for their efficiency and performance.
Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter for about $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion allocated to OpenRouter's founders, according to The New York Times. The deal, announced less than three m…
Crypto exchange OKX has restricted access to Anthropic's Claude AI for employees based in Hong Kong or traveling through China after its corporate account was temporarily suspended for violating geogr…
DeepSeek's OCR-2 and Dots.mocr, along with Zhipu's GLM-OCR, can be unified behind an OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions interface using a FastAPI normalizer, enabling zero refactoring for existing…
A developer released dsh-plugin-llm-verifier, a plugin for DeepSeek Harness that grades candidate solutions with an LLM and returns scores between 0 and 1, featuring a verify_rollout tool that runs mu…
DeepSeek's open-source Harness runtime, released on GitHub on August 13 under an MIT license, reportedly surpassed 95,000 stars in two days, signaling that the agent harness—the runtime, tool registry…
Kimi K3, an AI model from Moonshot AI, introduces Attention Residuals, replacing standard uniform residual connections in deep transformers with attention-weighted layer outputs, allowing the model to…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree surged 460% in its Shanghai IPO on Wednesday, raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in the first mainland China robotics public debut. The Hangzhou-based firm, b…
ChatPlayground AI is offering a lifetime subscription to its Unlimited Plan for $59.97 (regularly $619) until Aug. 25, providing access to over 20 AI models including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…
DeepSeek raised its V4 Flash API price by 93 percent on August 14, from $0.14 to $0.27 per million input tokens, while OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80 percent to $0.20 per million and made it th…
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around …
A developer's six-week, data-backed comparison of US and Chinese AI models reveals that Chinese models like DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen3-32B offer comparable quality at a fraction of the cost, with out…
With Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States weeks away, Washington and Beijing have yet to settle basic details of a planned artificial intelligence dialogue, including which US age…
OpenAI has halted reinforcement learning for its next-generation Astra model to strengthen safety measures, marking a shift from policy debates to engineering constraints in AI development. The pause,…
A practical guide published in late July 2026 evaluates the true costs of 'free' AI tools, distinguishing between free entry points, free allowances, trials, and local software. It recommends a combin…
A startup CTO developed a benchmarking playbook for AI coding models, testing ten models across five real tasks and scoring them on correctness, code quality, documentation, and edge cases, then divid…
A developer is seeking open-source replacements for Llama 3.3 70B Versatile after Groq shut down the model, focusing on smaller parameter sizes with comparable performance for RAG, agentic workflows, …
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood highlighted that the average price per million tokens for large language models has dropped from $2.07 to $1.02 in about a month, a decline of more than 50%, citing aggressi…
A developer's comparison of Chinese and US AI APIs in 2026 reveals that Chinese models like DeepSeek V4 Flash offer comparable performance to GPT-4o at a fraction of the cost, with output tokens price…
An architect's load tests of 47 million requests through DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM via Global API's unified endpoint found DeepSeek V4 Flash offers the best price-to-quality ratio, holding 60 toke…
Technical writer Elizabeth Tai says professional writers must learn AI skills or be left behind, but she is excited because AI has made her more productive and work more fun, though exhausted by the a…