The Wealth of the Richest People in AI
The richest people in AI include Chen Tianshi ($40B), Greg Brockman ($28B), Liang Wenfeng ($27B), Brett Adcock ($19B), and Edwin Chen ($16B), with fortunes tied to stakes in Cambricon Technologies, Op…
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.
The richest people in AI include Chen Tianshi ($40B), Greg Brockman ($28B), Liang Wenfeng ($27B), Brett Adcock ($19B), and Edwin Chen ($16B), with fortunes tied to stakes in Cambricon Technologies, Op…
Together AI raised $800 million in Series C funding at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Aramco Ventures with participation from Nvidia and others. The company, which provides infrastructure for runni…
Loma, a self-hosted shared AI layer for companies, launched as an open-source agent factory that pools Claude subscriptions and runs on open models via OpenCode. It automates tasks across Slack, webho…
Model subsidies are ending as flat-rate AI subscriptions prove unsustainable for agentic workloads, which consume up to 1,000 times more tokens than standard queries. Artificial Analysis' AA-Briefcase…
Chinese therapists report that clients are increasingly using AI tools like DeepSeek and ChatGPT to analyze therapy sessions, leading to conflicts and premature termination of treatment. Therapist Che…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that ignited a price war by undercutting rivals, will double API prices for its V4 models during peak hours in Beijing, marking its first time-based surcharge. The mov…
The Loomcycle project released eight versions (v1.6.1 to v1.8.2) over five days, introducing tenant-scoped Web UI surfaces, supporting TrueNAS deployments, adding vision capabilities across all provid…
Anthropic has removed a hidden monitoring feature from its Claude Code tool that secretly checked users' connections to China and AI labs there, transmitting data through encrypted steganography in th…
Singapore authorities seized a $42 million luxury home and charged three suspects with fraud and money laundering in an alleged scheme to smuggle Nvidia AI chips to China, involving roughly $390 milli…
OpenCode, a model-agnostic coding agent, crossed 160,000 GitHub stars and 7.5 million monthly active developers in June 2026 by refusing to lock users into a single AI model. Unlike competitors Claude…
A developer benchmarked four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—over 30 days using 1,247 prompts across code generation, reasoning, Chinese language, English chat, and vision tasks. De…
Developer Ian Wootten replaced his Claude subscription with open-source models accessed via OpenRouter and the OpenCode harness, citing cost, flexibility, and a desire to avoid vendor lock-in. He buil…
UBS analysts found that roughly 60% of enterprises are throttling AI spending by adding guardrails, creating a modest headwind for AI model makers. The trend boosts the value of cheaper open-source an…
UBS analysts report that approximately 60% of enterprise companies are throttling AI spending by implementing guardrails, as CFOs and CTOs grow concerned about rising token costs and meager ROI. The a…
The U.S. government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, reversing a sudden ban that disrupted Japanese developers and businesses. The reversal highlights regu…
A new study introduces the Guided-Retry strategy to reduce AI hallucinations in task-oriented dialogues without retraining models. Tested on models like DeepSeek-R1 and Llama-3, the method cut halluci…
A developer explains how to transform a basic LLM chatbot into an autonomous AI agent by adding system prompts, tool calling, agent loops, memory, reasoning, skills, and delegation. The approach enabl…
Together AI announced an $800 million Series C funding round led by Aramco Ventures, NVIDIA, and others to accelerate open-source AI development. The company plans to use the capital to expand compute…
A researcher discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code silently embeds invisible Unicode steganographic markers into system prompts when users route requests through custom API proxies, fingerprinting r…
DeepSeek launched DSpark, an open-source speculative decoding module that boosts AI inference speed by up to 400% on existing chips, potentially reducing demand for Nvidia's high-end accelerators. The…