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.
Chinese AI companies cannot die because their government protects them, allowing them to survive a price war by winning the API battle while frontier AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic face diminishin…
A developer built a local-first profiler that acts as a transparent reverse proxy between coding agents and LLM providers, revealing that only ~60% of API costs go to actual prompts while the rest is …
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model that scored 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 59.4% on SWE-Bench Pro, beating larger…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions on Chinese AI labs over alleged intellectual property theft, saying the U.S. has the ability to sanction overseas models that steal from Amer…
Gartner data shows GenAI model spending reached $5.7 billion in 2024, up 320.4% from $1.4 billion in 2023, but hardware investments in datacenters and AI infrastructure are far outpacing model and pla…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight coding model that matches or exceeds larger rivals on agentic coding benchmarks and runs on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system…
The United States and China are set to hold high-stakes talks on artificial intelligence in September, marking the first official U.S.-China AI dialogue under President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretar…
Analysts at Bank of America and UBS advise investors to stick with AI hardware stocks despite a volatile July that briefly pushed chip stocks into a bear market. BofA says new open-source models like …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI developers on Tuesday, citing investigations into whether their models were built with intellectual property taken from US riva…
A new measurement study of prompt cache keepalive economics across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and DeepSeek finds that the common practice of pinging every 30 seconds costs 8x more than necessary, and …
TokenHub, a private enterprise AI gateway developed by Asta Xie, provides role-based workspaces for users, team leaders, and administrators, separating model usage, team governance, and platform admin…
American open-source AI labs, including startups Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, and Poolside, are attempting to challenge the dominance of Chinese open-source models like Kimi and DeepSeek, accordi…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI Pte Ltd. released its Kimi K3 model last Friday, claiming it is the world's largest open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and outperforms U.S. rivals on certain be…
A ranking of the nine best open-weight large language models in 2026 finds Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI tied with Claude Opus 4.8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, though its weights are not …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US government is investigating whether Chinese open-source AI models, such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, were built on intellectual property theft from US competi…
Nvidia is touting performance gains for its Vera Rubin platform ahead of AMD's Advancing AI conference, with CoreWeave seeing 10 times more tokens per watt running DeepSeek's R1 model compared to the …
AI companies' models, protected only as trade secrets, can be replicated through repeated queries in a standard industry technique called distillation, undermining the 'moat' of training costs that su…
Moonshot AI's launch of Kimi K3 has revived debate over whether China can match US frontier AI performance despite limited access to advanced chips, with analysts warning that trillions of dollars in …
Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu, has completed construction of a 1-gigawatt data center that will use only Chinese-made AI chips, marking a milestone in Beijing's push to reduce reliance on Nvidia Corp.…
China's Ministry of Commerce is drafting AI export controls that restrict the transfer of model weights, training pipelines, and research talent to foreign entities, with three companies already recei…