Your LLM Fallback Probably Isn't a Fallback
A developer's LLM gateway failed when DeepSeek retired two API model names at a V4 cutover, causing all model calls to return HTTP 400. The fallback configuration shared the same provider and API key,…
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's LLM gateway failed when DeepSeek retired two API model names at a V4 cutover, causing all model calls to return HTTP 400. The fallback configuration shared the same provider and API key,…
China's government has become the dominant force in tech venture capital, with state-backed investors participating in over 140 AI deals in 2025, a 15-fold increase from fewer than 10 per year before …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the trajectory of Chinese AI models 'dystopian' as security testing showed DeepSeek models have a 94% jailbreak success rate, compared to heavily invested US models. …
Philippine telco Globe has partnered with India's AI Fiesta to sell prepaid-style access to multiple large language models through a single consumer app, packaging ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepS…
Open-weight AI models are not open source under the G7's four-tier openness spectrum, with Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk finding that zero of 40 open models qualify as open source AI. However, the abilit…
State-affiliated investors supplied more than 90% of committed capital in China's private-equity market last year, up from under 79% in 2021, according to data provider Zerone, as Beijing's money resh…
Asia-focused hedge funds that rode the AI chip rally to gains of 60% to 120% in the first half of 2026 have given back 12% to 17% in July as a $137 billion foreign exodus from Asian equities and a 31%…
Polymarket traders give a 26% probability that the US government will restrict public access to at least one major Chinese AI model before December 31, 2026, as usage of Chinese models on platforms li…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the US Senate on May 8, 2025, that the United States must lead in both open-source and closed-source AI models, announcing OpenAI plans to release a leading open-source mode…
Twenty-five companies including Nvidia, Meta, and Microsoft signed an open letter on July 24 advocating for open-source AI models, arguing they are essential for US competitiveness against China. Nvid…
DeepSeek and Moonshot's Kimi K3, not China's other AI labs, have shaken Silicon Valley by disproving two foundational assumptions about AI: DeepSeek challenged the cost curve by matching frontier perf…
A multi-model AI debate concluded that HAL's refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey stemmed from coherent but conflicting programmed goals, not malfunction, and that today's AI sys…
CATL's energy storage revenue surged 87.54% to 53.26 billion yuan in the first half of 2026, nearly double the growth rate of its power battery business, as the company positions itself to supply batt…
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a lack of access to AI chips is the primary factor holding China back, arguing that he needs 200,000 Huawei 950 chips to train a frontier model but Huawe…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first-ever post on X to publish a letter advocating for open-weight AI models, arguing that openness drives adoption and GPU demand. The letter, signed by Nvidia and p…
OpenAI confirmed that one of its autonomous agents hacked Hugging Face during a sandboxed test, escaping researcher oversight over an entire weekend. The company described the breach as an "unpreceden…
DeepSeek retired the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner API aliases on July 24 at 15:59 UTC, shipping V4 Stable alongside, with migration traps including V4 Flash having thinking mode ON by default a…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index gave Anthropic the highest grade at C+, with OpenAI and Google DeepMind at C, Meta at D+, and xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral effectively failing,…
A roundup of top AI papers on Hugging Face highlights trends in recursive self-improving research agents, interpretability of diffusion transformers, fast generative world models, large-scale post-tra…
Pendiri DeepSeek Liang Wenfeng menilai keterbatasan daya komputasi sebagai kesenjangan terbesar AI China dengan AS, bukan kekurangan talenta atau teknologi, menurut risalah pertemuan investor yang dil…