A grey market in China resells access to Anthropic's Claude at 70-90% below official API prices through 'transfer stations' that mass-produce accounts, swap models, and capture user data. Anthropic ac…
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar said that China has developed new AI models through unauthorized use of Silicon Valley intellectual property, posing an economic threat…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is preparing an initial public offering and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after closing its first-ever outside round at roughly $50bn, Bloomberg reported. The Hangzhou-based…
DeepSeek is planning a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round at a $52 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The Chinese AI lab…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models on speed and cost through Global API's infrastructure, finding that Qwen3-8B delivers 70 tokens per second at $0.01 per million output tokens—99% cheaper than prem…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, MiniMax, Tencent, and Xiaomi have seized OpenRouter's top five positions, offering 4–8x cost advantages over comparable US models and triggering real production migrat…
The US government and leading AI developers are considering stronger measures to prevent Chinese companies from using American models to build competing systems through AI distillation, a process that…
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, reporting $1.15 billion in annual bookings and an inference engine that hits 500 tokens per second on DeepSeek-V3.1. The compa…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI (Knowledge Atlas Technology) closed nearly flat at HK$1,645 on Monday, defying a broad market rout that saw rival MiniMax tumble nearly 20%, after co-founder Tang Jie pledged …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI, developer of the GLM-5.2 model, closed nearly flat on Monday at HK$1,645, defying a broad slump that saw rival MiniMax fall almost 20%, after pledging to prioritize advanc…
A developer released the first open-source training kernels for MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, enabling efficient million-token training with sparse attention. The kernel…
Open-weight models have closed the quality gap with frontier systems, making the model itself the least defensible part of an AI business. Founders now build moats through workflows, context, and inte…
Goldman Sachs released a report on Friday analyzing China's AI large language model industry, finding that Chinese models achieve near parity with US rivals at 10-25% of the cost. The bank projects Ch…
A new benchmark measuring the political neutrality of 18 AI models from 12 labs across four regions found that 97 out of 108 measured positions landed left of center, with only xAI's Grok models appro…
Chinese AI companies are using a technique called distillation to copy American AI models, with Anthropic and OpenAI accusing firms like Alibaba's Qwen team of stealing intellectual property. Anthropi…
OpenAI and Anthropic warned that Chinese AI labs, including operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, are using tens of thousands of fake accounts to distill their models…
SK Hynix is listing on the Nasdaq in a record $26.5 billion share sale to fund high-bandwidth memory production, betting that AI demand will break the semiconductor industry's historic boom-and-bust c…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie pledged to forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while the Chinese AI firm seeks up to $2 billion in a discounted share sale after its sto…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie forgoes his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, as the Chinese AI firm seeks US$2 billion in funding after its stock plunged 80% from its peak. Ya…
American tech companies are increasingly anxious as Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek and Z.ai release competitive models at lower costs, challenging US dominance. Anthropic has accused Chinese rivals of…