DeepSeek

Chinese open-weight AI models now cost 60 to 90 percent less per token than leading US closed models, with DeepSeek charging $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens versus …

Matteo Grella released Fucina v0.1.0, a CPU-first tensor/autograd library written in pure Zig 0.16, featuring compile-time axis names in tensor types that make misaligned contractions a compile error.…

Apollo Capital chief economist Torsten Slok noted that while chipmakers and energy providers profit from AI, the AI companies themselves are losing money, threatening the industry's sustainability. Ch…

China shipped almost 20,000 humanoid robots in 2025, fueling a new independent repair industry of 'robot doctors' who fix robots faster and cheaper, though they face challenges such as scarce custom c…

Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, an AI model gateway used by 8 million developers, for more than $7 billion, with the deal closing on August 16. The acquisition gives Stripe control over both the billi…

World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump, is partnering with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw, which offers access to roughly 90 AI models, including 43 from C…

A developer who recently graduated from a coding bootcamp shares cost-saving techniques for AI APIs, including model routing and response caching, which cut their API bill dramatically. The developer …

DeepSeek's deepseek-harness agent framework reached 144,024 GitHub stars within four days of release, debuting at No. 28 in the Agent Arena weekly ranking for the week of 2026-08-17. The ranking, whic…

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, marking the largest AI gateway deal on record and merging payments infrastructure with a routing layer that directs developer workload…

AGI Bar, a Beijing bar opened by independent AI developer Song De in the Zhongguancun tech hub, offers free DeepSeek tokens with every pint, powered by two Nvidia DGX Spark computers, and serves a sig…

DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview, publishing the full source code under the MIT license at deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness. The harness, built on the Cordis plugin framework, …

DeepSeek overtook Google in token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway by July 2026, with DeepSeek at 25% and Google at 10.7%, according to the Vercel AI Gateway Production Index for August 2026. DeepSeek V4…

Chinese AI company DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 on its web interface, mobile app, and API, claiming it matches rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 at lower cost. The model scored 62.7 on the D…

DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 11-fold, effective August 16, 2025, with V4-Flash output tokens jumping from $0.28 to $1.32 per million during peak hours and V4-Pro output nearly quadrupling to $3…

Chinese AI firms are targeting enterprise customers with new open-source models, including DeepSeek's Harness v0.1 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Alibaba's Qwen-3.8, and Z.ai's GLM-5.3, aiming to compete with W…

RunInfra lists DeepSeek V4 Pro as deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, an LLM with a 1,048,576-token context window and a throughput of 207 tokens per second with no quantization. The API, priced at $0.6…

A dev.to write-up describes a setup where Claude Code is routed through a LiteLLM proxy to cheaper DeepSeek models via OpenRouter, a pattern that trades away data governance and supply-chain security.…

Frontier AI models are activating far fewer parameters per token than three years ago — Zhipu's GLM-5.2 activates about 40 billion, Alibaba's Qwen3.5 runs 17 billion active, and DeepSeek V4-Flash gets…

A developer has built a dual-backend setup for Claude Code, routing cheaper tasks through a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy to DeepSeek models while keeping a full Anthropic subscription for trusted work. T…

DeepSeek open-sourced the second half of its AI agent architecture, separating the model from the harness, a move that could accelerate agent development. The release provides developers with the harn…