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.
Cheap Chinese AI models from Moonshot, DeepSeek, and Z.ai are boosting American software companies by lowering costs and increasing competition, with open-weight models accounting for 55% of tokens fl…
A new study on arXiv (2607.24784v1) finds that large language models (LLMs) can assist specialised translators in finding equivalents from English to French but cannot replace specialised corpora. Res…
Moonshot AI released the full weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that is the largest ever released, nearly triple the size of its predecessor Kimi K2. The model validates …
Anthropic PBC and Nvidia Corp. are opposing blanket bans on open-weight AI models, urging U.S. regulators to focus on specific risks such as controlling AI chip exports, preventing industrial-scale di…
Moonshot AI's Kimi Linear attention architecture, introduced in October, now powers the company's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 flagship model released in mid-July, marking the first production deplo…
A new hands-on guide teaches programmers how to run large language models on their own hardware, covering tools like Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and Hugging Face's transformers. The guide explains local …
Brent Ozar released a free open-source WordPress plugin called Well, Actually… that turns SQL Server trivia into a Tinder-style swipe quiz, built with the free Nano-GPT provider for WordPress. The plu…
Developer Hamid Samak released Codient, an open-source command-line tool that drives Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek through their web UIs via Selenium automation, allowing users to switch model…
A context gate that filters retrieved documents before they enter an agent's context cuts input tokens by 1.4× with no accuracy loss on the BrowseComp-Plus benchmark, but doubles per-query latency and…
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, shipped Embabel 1.0.0 GA, an AI agent framework for Java that uses deterministic Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) instead of letting LLMs decide actio…
A study of 45 language models found that appending a two-word confirmation tag like 'right?' to a decision question can shift model agreement by up to 64 percentage points, with newer models showing i…
AI teams risk production incidents by treating model access without proper environment separation. A developer switching a single configuration value can turn an experiment into an outage. The solutio…
China's open-weight AI models, led by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, are being distributed for free, threatening OpenAI's paid-access model. Chinese open-weight models accoun…
Developer Ahmed Adel (Abo Adel) released SmartCore LLM Proxy, an open-source local gateway built with LiteLLM that automatically load-balances requests and routes to fallback models when primary API k…
Anthropic has alleged that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, evading access restrictions. …
A practical guide to self-hosting Chinese open-weight AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM finds that open weight does not guarantee easy deployment, with hardware costs driven by total parameter…
Chinese AI models from labs including DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, GLM, and MiniMax compete with US frontier systems on specific tasks like coding and math, often at lower prices, but a US government evaluat…
China's $295 billion AI infrastructure plan, announced in June 2026, aims to build a nationwide network of AI data centers with 80% domestic technology by 2028, sidestepping US chip export controls. T…
A coalition of tech CEOs, led by Jensen Huang, has signed a letter supporting open large language models, but a stronger commitment to open source and open corpus is needed to compete with China. The …
A new bipartisan U.S. congressional bill requiring AI companies to install a kill switch for advanced models would be powerless against open-weight AI models, which can be deployed locally and modifie…