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.
Chinese AI models now process over three times the weekly token volume of US models on OpenRouter, handling 18 trillion tokens compared to 5.5 trillion. The shift began in February 2026 when Chinese m…
DeepSeek Flash, an open-source model, has inverted the economics of AI agent products by offering superior performance at a fraction of the cost, reducing API prices by over 100x compared to competito…
DeepSeek made its V4 Pro price cut permanent, widening the cost gap with GPT-4o-class APIs and making it a serious contender for batch ETL workloads. Models.dev launched as an open-source database of …
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI model distillation attack, involving 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts, and urged Congress to strengthen export …
Developer JoeBro released a native macOS AI workspace with a Python backend that requires zero dependencies, no pip install, and no Docker. The app runs entirely locally, storing data in a SQLite file…
Anthropic urged Congress to strengthen protections against AI model distillation, alleging that Alibaba-affiliated operators conducted the largest known extraction campaign against its Claude chatbot,…
OpenLanguage, a free and open-source AI language tutor for iOS, was released on Hacker News. The app uses voice I/O for speaking and listening practice, supports multiple AI providers via user API key…
Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek and Alibaba have rapidly closed the performance gap with US rivals, capturing over 50% of global open-source downloads and 30% of AI model usage by early 20…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI team of orchestrating a 44-day distillation attack using 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million interactions to steal capabilities from its Claude model, marking the…
Nexotao, an Indonesian AI gateway, now allows developers to pay for Claude and DeepSeek APIs in Rupiah via QRIS without needing a foreign credit card. The service offers OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatib…
The Nexotao team has launched a local API gateway that allows Indonesian developers to access Claude and DeepSeek models by paying in Rupiah via QRIS, bypassing the need for a foreign credit card. The…
Anthropic accused Alibaba and its AI lab Qwen of orchestrating the largest known model distillation attack, using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million exchanges with Claude betwe…
A group of publishers owning nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of articles to train ChatGPT and Copilot. Separately, Anthr…
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek announced plans to at least double the size of every department, opening 33 positions across seven categories as it pursues artificial general intelligence. The company said i…
A researcher ran a 200-step debug comparison between a base OLMo3 600M model and a DeepSeek-style Engram memory graft variant, finding the graft stable and showing improved early learning behavior. Th…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known distillation attack on its AI models, using 25,000 fake accounts to conduct 28.8 million exchanges with its Claude models. The AI company d…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known 'distillation attack' on its Claude AI model, using 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 29 million exchanges between April 22 and June 5.…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek plans to at least double its staff of roughly 170 after raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, one of the largest ever for a Chinese startup. The round, …
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is doubling its headcount across departments, including a new Harness team for agent products, as it shifts from a research-focused operation to a product company. The expansio…
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “completely fumbled” its lead in artificial intelligence, arguing the company failed to capitalize on its data and distribution advantages to become the dominan…