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 new scheduler for large language model serving allows decode nodes to assist prefill phases, cutting P95 time-to-first-token by up to 81% and improving service-level objective attainment by up to 79…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and Huawei, according to Reuters. The move aims to cut API costs and stabilize supply amid export restrict…
Inferock released inferock-bench, an open-source local proxy that generates per-call billing receipts for OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers, enabling users to audit token usage, costs, and fa…
Demand for grade-A office space in Beijing's Zhongguancun district rose in the first half of 2025, driven by expanding AI and semiconductor firms, making it the only submarket to post rent growth. Kni…
DeepSeek releases V4 Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 49 billion active parameters per token, achieving a top open-weight score of 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. The model req…
An engineer running multi-region AI workloads reports that Chinese LLM APIs from DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, and Kimi offer dramatically lower costs than US providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, with…
China is advancing its global soft power by releasing open-weight AI models that are widely adopted in Africa and other regions, while the U.S. relies on closed-source proprietary models. Andrew Ng wa…
Congress is investigating U.S. companies using lower-cost Chinese AI models, citing data security and national security risks. The House committees launched a probe into firms like Cursor and Airbnb, …
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind found that AI-generated fiction is easily detectable due to formulaic narrative structures, moralizing themes, and lack of temporal comple…
A Hacker News user asks the community to share specific tasks from the past month where open-weight models like GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, or Qwen failed but frontier models like Opus, Fable, or GPT succeed…
DeepSeek V3.2 achieves a 67.25% pass rate on the ARC-AGI-1 challenge using a novel Explorer-Definer Pipeline and Reflective Orchestrator, without fine-tuning or heavy compute. The open-weight model's …
China's open-source AI models are gaining global influence, particularly in Africa, as nations seek alternatives to U.S. closed-source models, according to AI expert Andrew Ng. Ng warned that this shi…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie pledged to forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while the Chinese AI firm seeks up to $2 billion in a discounted share sale after its sto…
Chinese users praise OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for its efficiency despite higher costs than local rivals, accessing the blocked service via VPNs. The launch introduces three models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with Te…
Crusoe launched serverless fine-tuning and inference services on its Intelligence Foundry platform, enabling enterprise AI teams to customize open-weight models without managing GPU infrastructure. Th…
New research reveals that aggregate safety metrics for multi-agent LLM systems are misleading, as they conflate reframing, planner refusals, and executor compliance. The study introduces a five-condit…
Investors are rotating out of Nvidia and into Chinese and Korean chip stocks, with SK Hynix raising nearly $29 billion in a Nasdaq ADR listing and Chinese memory maker CXMT preparing a $4.3 billion IP…
Tencent Holdings released Hy3, its first full model under Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu, on July 6, activating 21 billion of 295 billion parameters per call and cutting hallucination rates from 12.5% …
DeepSeek is developing a proprietary inference chip, marking the final step in a three-year sequence that has split the global AI market into two segments with different rules and suppliers, according…
Chinese AI models from Zhipu AI and DeepSeek are gaining developer share in the United States due to lower costs, with OpenRouter data showing Chinese model token consumption above 20% weekly share si…