DeepSeek

DeepSeek, a free AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek, and ChatGPT, OpenAI's GPT-5-powered assistant with a $20/month Plus plan, compete for small business users in 2026. DeepSeek offers unlimited f…

Brent Ozar released a free open-source WordPress plugin called Well, Actually… that turns SQL Server trivia into a Tinder-style swipe quiz, built with the free Nano-GPT provider for WordPress. The plu…

Developer Hamid Samak released Codient, an open-source command-line tool that drives Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek through their web UIs via Selenium automation, allowing users to switch model…

A context gate that filters retrieved documents before they enter an agent's context cuts input tokens by 1.4× with no accuracy loss on the BrowseComp-Plus benchmark, but doubles per-query latency and…

Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, shipped Embabel 1.0.0 GA, an AI agent framework for Java that uses deterministic Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) instead of letting LLMs decide actio…

A study of 45 language models found that appending a two-word confirmation tag like 'right?' to a decision question can shift model agreement by up to 64 percentage points, with newer models showing i…

AI teams risk production incidents by treating model access without proper environment separation. A developer switching a single configuration value can turn an experiment into an outage. The solutio…

China's open-weight AI models, led by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, are being distributed for free, threatening OpenAI's paid-access model. Chinese open-weight models accoun…

Developer Ahmed Adel (Abo Adel) released SmartCore LLM Proxy, an open-source local gateway built with LiteLLM that automatically load-balances requests and routes to fallback models when primary API k…

Anthropic has alleged that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, evading access restrictions. …

A practical guide to self-hosting Chinese open-weight AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM finds that open weight does not guarantee easy deployment, with hardware costs driven by total parameter…

Chinese AI models from labs including DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, GLM, and MiniMax compete with US frontier systems on specific tasks like coding and math, often at lower prices, but a US government evaluat…

China's $295 billion AI infrastructure plan, announced in June 2026, aims to build a nationwide network of AI data centers with 80% domestic technology by 2028, sidestepping US chip export controls. T…

A coalition of tech CEOs, led by Jensen Huang, has signed a letter supporting open large language models, but a stronger commitment to open source and open corpus is needed to compete with China. The …

A new bipartisan U.S. congressional bill requiring AI companies to install a kill switch for advanced models would be powerless against open-weight AI models, which can be deployed locally and modifie…

KBlip, a solo project by an unnamed maker, aggregates AI and LLM news from over 100 sources including Reddit, Hacker News, arXiv, GitHub, and YouTube into daily digest threads sorted into five feeds. …

Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek are forcing Silicon Valley to rethink assumptions about the AI race, with Moonshot pausing new Kimi K3 subscriptions less than 48 hours after launch due to overw…

A new analysis predicts that AI models will grow from 10 trillion parameters in 2026 to 1.4 quadrillion parameters by 2031, with inference costs remaining surprisingly low due to KV cache scaling. The…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on July 21 that Chinese companies using model distillation to learn from American AI systems could face sanctions, including Entity List designations, according…

China warned on July 27 that it will take all necessary measures to protect its AI companies if the US imposes sanctions, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Chinese firms of industrial-sca…