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.
Cursor costs $20 per month and GitHub Copilot costs $10 per month, both scoring 57% crowd approval, but solo developers on a tight budget have two free open-source alternatives: Cline and Aider, where…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of intellectual property and poaching of over 400 employees, an Oracle debt downgrade citing OpenAI as a key credit risk, and a price war with Chinese …
China revised stock market listing rules three weeks before AI startup DeepSeek filed for a mainland IPO, raising questions about regulatory timing. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence …
In early July 2026, Chinese AI chip companies Biren Technology and Iluvatar CoreX returned to capital markets, raising $900 million and $902 million respectively through share placements, while AI mod…
A quant fund at DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's Zhejiang High-Flyer Asset Management slumped 15.7% in the week ended Jul 17, while a similar fund at HanTak Investment Management lost an estimated 16.…
Large language models are more likely than humans to form biases when hiring, according to a new study from Princeton University and the University of Chicago. Researchers found that LLMs including Ch…
In the tenth installment of a series on building AI agents in Rust, the author explores driving a local model directly via stdin/stdout instead of HTTP, using Salvatore Sanfilippo's DwarfStar inferenc…
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 leads open-weight language models as of July 20th with a score of 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, seven points ahead of its nearest rivals. Chinese labs dominate the t…
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, an open-weight model with over one trillion parameters that handles images, video, documents and text, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. The Qwen team says…
Open-source AI models are rapidly closing the gap with closed-source frontier models, as Moonshot shipped Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters) on July 16, Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8 (2.4T parameters) on July 19,…
AI models DeepSeek and Claude AI incorrectly predicted France would beat England in the FIFA World Cup 2026 third-place match, with DeepSeek forecasting a 3-2 win and Claude a 2-1 win, while the actua…
Seven years of LLM releases from GPT-2 (1.5B parameters, February 2019) to Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters, July 2026) show that the decoder-only transformer architecture barely changed while almost everythi…
ModelRouter, an independent third-party OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway, recommends that teams start with a single successful request before scaling a workflow. The company advises checking the base …
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI plans to list in Hong Kong within six months after its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, outperformed rivals except Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 a…
OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball called a future dominated by open-weight AI models a "dystopian hellscape" and "full AI communism," days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a …
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open MoE model, leads the open-weight leaderboard with an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 57, surpassing DeepSeek V4 Pro (44) and Zhipu …
Andrew Marble argues that copyright law is irrelevant to AI model distillation, where companies like DeepSeek allegedly copy capabilities from models like Claude by generating training data from queri…
On 2026-07-19, a hackathon hosted by Kaggle and DeepMind to measure AGI ended with the first-place entry, MEDLEY-BENCH, facing challenges over its scoring and reproducibility, exposing a widening gap …
A punishing technology selloff erased billions in market value in the week ending July 17, with the technology sector tumbling 5.9% and the iShares Semiconductor ETF sinking 19% month to date, as inve…
A University of Cambridge field study based on interviews with former Boko Haram and ISWAP members reveals that these groups have set up dedicated internal units to systematically use commercial AI ch…