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 Biden administration's new 'Pax Silica' policy forces East Asian allies to choose between American and Chinese AI ecosystems, threatening Japanese conglomerates like SoftBank and NEC that rely on …
ChatPlayground AI is offering a lifetime subscription to its unlimited plan for $54.97, down from its regular price, through August 16. The platform provides access to over 20 AI models, including GPT…
DeepSeek released the developer preview of its Harness agent framework with source code, featuring a modular plugin architecture where models, tools, sandboxes, loops, scheduling, and UI are swappable…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, reported preliminary second-quarter revenue of more than US$11.5 billion, a 14-fold increase from US$787 million in the same period a year earlier, accordin…
DeepSeek will raise API prices for its V4 model family by up to 1,100% starting 16 August at 16:00 UTC, with new peak and off-peak pricing tiers. V4-Flash cache-miss input tokens rise from $0.14 to $0…
Whizi, a multi-model AI workspace, offers access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and 200+ other AI models for a single subscription starting at $1 for 7 days. Accountant Ayman Aboskhroun reports saving…
European enterprises are actively testing Chinese AI models on local servers, challenging Brussels' technological sovereignty drive, according to Volker Pfirsching, a Munich-based partner at Arthur D.…
In a test of six AI models, five recommended a minimum of four yes/no questions for a Chinese zodiac guessing game, while Grok argued three questions suffice if controlled collisions are allowed, achi…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 1,100% effective August 16 at 16:00 UTC, with V4 Pro cached input tokens jumping from $0.0036 to $0.044 per million during peak hours, a 1,113% increase. The compan…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1, an open-source runtime for building coding agents, on August 13th under the MIT license, alongside the general-availability version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro (DeepSee…
Maple, an Austin-based encrypted AI access company, announced it made DeepSeek V4 Flash available to paid customers, though its public materials do not specify qualifying plans, usage limits, or wheth…
A new wave of AI coding harnesses—including Databricks' Omnigent, DeepSeek Harness, Block's Buzz, Y Combinator's QM, Cloudflare's Flue, and Meta's Muse Code—is converging on a common architecture that…
DeepSeek's V4 Pro 0813 model became generally available on August 13, featuring improved agent benchmarks, native OpenAI Responses API support, and a 1.6-trillion-parameter architecture under an MIT l…
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model, on July 19 at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 among frontier systems, but th…
Anthropic PBC reported preliminary second-quarter revenue of more than $11.5 billion, a 14-fold increase from $787 million in the same period a year earlier, according to documents seen by Bloomberg N…
DeepSeek released an early version of its open source agent harness, DeepSeek Harness, built on the Cordis meta-framework, which treats models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, loops, …
Anthropic's AI models can deliver a lower total cost of ownership for specific tasks than leading Chinese open-weight alternatives despite higher per-token prices, according to a study covered by The …
University of Colorado Boulder professor Tom Yeh's AI by Hand project, which teaches transformer mechanics through pencil-and-paper worksheets and an MIT-licensed Excel repository with about 6,000 Git…
Clement Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, stated that China is currently winning the open-source AI race, citing the staggering volume of high-quality open-weight models from Chinese labs …
Alibaba's Qwen team released two open-weight models this week, with the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max grabbing headlines but the Apache-licensed, multimodal Qwen3.8-27B being the practical choice…