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.
A developer built pi-tree, a self-hosted AI reading companion that uses tree-structured conversations to allow branching and backtracking during reading sessions. Unlike typical RAG-based tools, pi-tr…
ChatPlayground AI offers a lifetime subscription for $79, down from $619, bundling over 20 AI models including GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and Perplexity into a single dashboard. T…
SGLang achieved a 5x throughput improvement for serving DeepSeek-V4 on NVIDIA GB300 hardware since its Day-0 launch, reaching ~11,200 tok/s/GPU at 50 tok/s/user through kernel and runtime optimization…
Baidu released Unlimited-OCR, a one-shot long-horizon parsing model that extends DeepSeek-OCR, on June 22, 2026. The open-source model supports single-image and multi-page PDF parsing with configurabl…
Weibo's AI group released VibeThinker-3B, a 3-billion-parameter model that achieves 94.3 on AIME and outperforms Claude Opus 4.5 on competition reasoning, but collapses on general knowledge tasks. The…
Abacus AI's ChatLLM platform offers a multi-model AI workspace that integrates leading models like GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and Qwen under a single subscription, along with AI agents, codi…
The AI industry's focus on token cost or quality alone is misguided, advocating instead for a 'Value For Money' philosophy that balances cost, quality, and risk. It critiques current trends like 'Toke…
Tencent has begun internal testing of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded in WeChat that accepts text and voice input to execute tasks across the app's mini-program ecosystem, with a public rollout targ…
Baidu is pursuing full-stack AI capabilities by building its own chips, models, and cloud infrastructure while gaining access to restricted Nvidia H200 GPUs. The company's Kunlunxin chip unit could be…
Tencent has begun testing an AI assistant named Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to perform tasks via text or voice commands. The company plans a public rollout in Q3, aiming to turn the super ap…
Liontrust Global Technology Fund has nearly doubled its China exposure from 6% to 11%, rotating profits from US tech giants like Nvidia and Apple into Chinese internet companies such as Tencent, Meitu…
Ollama provides a REST API with 14 endpoints for running large language models locally. The API includes endpoints for text generation, chat, embeddings, model management, and OpenAI compatibility. De…
Researchers from Wake Forest University found that 282 of 444 iOS apps with large language model features leaked AI credentials or exposed backend access mechanisms, with only 28% fixing the issues af…
CSGHub, an open-source platform for managing Large Language Model (LLM) assets, offers on-premise deployment for secure, offline operation. It provides a unified interface for uploading, downloading, …
Chinese AI and semiconductor stocks surged on government plans to invest $295 billion in AI data centers and anticipated index reshuffles, with Biren Technology's Hong Kong IPO soaring 120% on its fir…
An engineer argues that local AI models have become production-capable for enterprise use, citing hardware advances like Apple's M5 chip and NVIDIA's DGX Spark, and open-weight models that now rival c…
On May 31, 2026, DeepSeek made its V4-Pro API pricing permanent at a 75% discount, with output costs of $0.87 per million tokens—10x cheaper than GPT-4o and 5x cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5. Meanwhile…
HBM costs have grown from 52% of AI chip component costs in Q1 2024 to 63% in Q4 2025, with total AI chip component spending rising from $22 billion to $52 billion. Reasonix released an open-source te…
Researchers have developed adaptive speculative decoding, a method that dynamically selects draft lengths at runtime to optimize token generation efficiency in large language models. The approach addr…
A backend engineer migrated from GPT-4o to DeepSeek after comparing Chinese and US AI models on real production workloads, finding DeepSeek V4 Flash delivers competitive performance at 40-60x lower co…