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 benchmarked 15 AI models on speed and cost through Global API's infrastructure, finding that Qwen3-8B delivers 70 tokens per second at $0.01 per million output tokens—99% cheaper than prem…
An indie hacker spent a month testing Chinese AI APIs from DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers 95% of GPT-4o quality at 2.5% of the price. The developer recommends Dee…
Cheaper AI model pricing does not automatically reduce agent execution costs because tool schemas and repeated tool calls can consume up to 32 times more tokens than the task itself, making tool desig…
A study of more than 26,000 middle and high school students in central China found that using AI homework tools boosted homework scores by 18% but cut exam scores by 20%, with the negative effect on h…
AI has been used in every stage of a cyberattack for the first time, according to research released Monday by cybersecurity firm Check Point. The technology generated commands, tested vulnerabilities …
ZigZag, a new open-source tool built on Zig version 0.15.2, scans a codebase and condenses it into a single token-efficient Markdown file for use with any LLM, without requiring API keys or a GPU. The…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, MiniMax, Tencent, and Xiaomi have seized OpenRouter's top five positions, offering 4–8x cost advantages over comparable US models and triggering real production migrat…
A Hacker News user asks for recommendations on securely containerizing AI agent harnesses to prevent unauthorized file system access, citing their use of OpenCode with DeepSeek on Linux Mint Debian Ed…
A coding bootcamp graduate discovered that open-source AI models like Qwen3 and DeepSeek offer comparable quality to GPT-4o at a fraction of the cost, with some models priced as low as $0.01 per milli…
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C on July 1 at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Aramco Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Nvidia and Pegatron. The co…
Major US companies including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are adopting Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai, attracted by lower costs and open-weight flexibility, according to the Financial Times…
MindsDB has launched MindsHub Cowork, an open-source unified workspace that lets users delegate entire projects—apps, websites, research, analysis, and scheduled operations—to AI agents while swapping…
Kotro, a single-binary local proxy for MCP-native agentic AI, claims to reduce upstream billed tokens by up to 99.3% in a benchmark by preserving request-shape stability for provider prefix caching, w…
A developer benchmarked 10 large language models on five coding tasks, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers the best value-to-quality ratio at $0.25 per million output tokens, while Qwen3-Coder-30B e…
DeepSeek's 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model is failing to improve profit margins for enterprise AI vendors because token amplification costs from agent-driven systems are outpacing the savings, accor…
The US government and leading AI developers are considering stronger measures to prevent Chinese companies from using American models to build competing systems through AI distillation, a process that…
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, reporting $1.15 billion in annual bookings and an inference engine that hits 500 tokens per second on DeepSeek-V3.1. The compa…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver the keynote address at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this July, marking the first time China's top leader has personally appea…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded Mistral AI an F, the lowest among nine companies assessed, after the French startup failed to respond to the institute's survey. Anthr…
Anthropic and OpenAI warn that China is stealing their cutting-edge AI through a technique called distillation, enabling cheap, open-source chatbots that threaten US national security and its lead in …