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 group of six companies specializing in tracking sensitive technology shipments is backing the Chip Security Act, a bill that would require stronger tracking mechanisms for advanced AI chips to preve…
A committee of five open-weights models fused together scored 69.9 on the DRACO benchmark, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 model which scored 65.3. The open-source panel, including MiniMax M3, Kimi K2.6, …
Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after a US export control directive, leaving millions of users without access to top-tier AI models. The incident highlights the risk of relying on a s…
A developer created ModelisHub, a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that auto-selects the best LLM (GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1, Grok, DeepSeek) for each request and charges a flat per-call p…
The gap between open-source and proprietary AI models has narrowed from nearly 10 months in December 2024 to just 2–3.5 months as of early 2025, according to an analysis of the open-source Pareto fron…
Microsoft is evaluating a range of open and open-weight models, beyond DeepSeek, for its Copilot Cowork agentic work app, aiming to enable flexible model swapping based on task type, cost, and latency…
Goldman Sachs' 1-Delta Desk, led by Rich Privorotsky, flagged a chart tracking open-source vs. closed-source AI models as a leading indicator for the AI infrastructure trade, arguing that AI is shifti…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek reportedly required prospective investors to agree not to poach its staff or encourage them to start rival companies, a condition raised during a virtual meeting in May, accord…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, instructing investors not to poach its employees as it issues equity to retain its 150-person team. The round v…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model that the author calls the best open-weight model available. The model introduces IndexShare, a cross-layer reuse trick for DeepSeek Sparse Attention that re…
A developer reveals three structural cost leaks in LLM pipelines: uniform model routing, synchronous processing, and lack of caching. After addressing these issues, the same workload can cost far less…
AI models used for online hate speech detection vary widely in how they identify and classify hate speech, according to a 2025 University of Pennsylvania study. The study found significant inconsisten…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot with 345 million monthly active users, is introducing subscription plans from 688 to 5,088 yuan annually, sparking user backlash and debate over mon…
DeepSeek closed its first external fundraising in a Series A round, raising about 50 billion yuan at a post-investment valuation of 400 billion yuan, making it one of China's most valuable AI startups…
Zhipu AI released GLM 5.2, now available via a unified Model API, providing instant access to frontier open-source AI models for building AI apps and agents without deployment. The platform supports m…
A developer launched a public World Cup prediction arena pitting 12 AI models against each other, tracking 169 predictions across 21 settled matches. After 21 scoring entries, all models are tied with…
Researchers propose a structural pruning framework for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models that reformulates prune-ratio allocation as a channel-score coverage maximization problem, solved via attribution…
A new open-source benchmark platform called AIStupidLevel continuously monitors 21 production AI models from 7 providers for performance degradation. The platform runs 24/7 tests including coding, dee…
A developer reports that the downloadsAllTime field for multiple public models on Hugging Face Hub is decreasing day-over-day, contrary to expectations for a cumulative count. The observed drops range…
Global investors are increasingly splitting Chinese tech stocks into AI winners and losers, with a pair trade strategy going long on Alibaba and short on Meituan returning around 130% year-to-date. Th…