Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, launched the world's first AI-native credit card, integrating Kimi membership and credit limits into the card's rewards system. The card offers prompt…
An open-source coding agent called Relay has been released, supporting non-mainstream and Chinese LLM providers like DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM. The Electron app offers chat and code workspaces with file…
Coinbase quietly cut its AI bill nearly in half by switching to open models, smarter routing, and better caching, demonstrating that open models can perform effectively without incident. Meanwhile, An…
OpenAI is considering drastic cuts to its token pricing ahead of its IPO, responding to competitive pressure from Anthropic and cheaper Chinese open-source models. The move aims to capture developer a…
A 2026 guide compares AI coding subscriptions, highlighting a shift to credit-based pricing. Platforms like OpenCode, Kilo, and GitHub Copilot offer varying plans, with OpenCode Go at $10/month and Ki…
A developer building V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS, a bare-metal self-healing operating system, designed Neural Document Architecture (NDA), a zero-allocation binary format for nanosecond-latency document trans…
A developer spent two weeks comparing four Chinese AI model families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—via Global API's unified endpoint, finding DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.25/M output offers a 97.5% discoun…
Researchers developed a method to combine AI control protocols by routing between them based on predicted usefulness and suspicion, achieving better safety-usefulness tradeoffs. They also addressed at…
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, warns that CEOs are prone to 'AI psychosis' due to distance from hands-on work. Om Malik describes creating a personal AI assistant but criticizes the trend of digital twins, …
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…
Zhipu's GLM 5.2 open-weight model, available on Synthorai at roughly one-sixth of frontier per-token prices, achieves frontier-level benchmarks but its per-task cost varies by over an order of magnitu…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weight AI model, on June 13, 2026, to GLM Coding Plan members, followed by public release on June 16. The model has been praised by the AI community for its strong perfo…
Tencent is testing an AI agent inside WeChat that can complete tasks across mini-programs, leveraging the super app's 1.4 billion users and existing service ecosystem. The agent aims to integrate AI i…
A backend engineer migrated from GPT-4o to DeepSeek after comparing Chinese and US AI models on real production workloads, finding DeepSeek V4 Flash delivers competitive performance at 40-60x lower co…
A new open-source tool called cc-fleet enables Claude Code to use third-party large language models as workers, allowing users to run models from providers like DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and Qwen within Cl…
A developer with 8+ months of heavy agentic coding experience argues that low-cost LLMs like Qwen and Kimi handle 70-80% of software development work, while frontier models only earn their cost on the…
A developer released hyperpb, a runtime-compiled Protobuf parser for Go that achieves 10x faster parsing than dynamicpb and 3x faster than hand-written generated code. Quickwit, a Rust-based log searc…
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…
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…
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…