Open-weight AI models overtook proprietary ones on Vercel's AI Gateway, accounting for 62% of token volume by August 22, up from 28% two months earlier, with DeepSeek-V4-Flash leading the leaderboard.…
Open-weight AI models from China hit a record 62% share of token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway on Saturday, up from 28% on June 24, driven largely by DeepSeek's V4-Flash model, according to Vercel CEO…
Open-weight models accounted for 53.9% of token volume routed through Vercel AI Gateway on August 11th, surpassing closed-weight models at 46.1%, according to data highlighted by Vercel CEO Guillermo …
Chinese AI company StepFun is reportedly splitting its foundation model and agent-device businesses, moving its phone business into a separate company while the original entity continues model operati…
Rescene, a free AI agent aggregator, has been released, requiring no API key. It aggregates 7 free providers and 18 model entries, featuring intelligent routing, browser automation, and Computer Use, …
Chinese smartphone makers are integrating AI agents directly into their operating systems, replacing traditional app stores and home screens. ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra runs ByteDance's Doubao AI agent w…
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference, in its ninth year, concluded on 20 July in Shanghai, featuring an exhibition area exceeding 1 million square feet and over 1,100 companies unveiling more …
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17, Nubia, StepFun, and Honor each unveiled what they called the world's first AI agent smartphone, highlighting a fragmented market…
Chinese tech firms including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor showcased AI agent-powered smartphones at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, pitching them as the future of mobile devices…
ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, calling it the world's first agentic AI smartphone. The device, running ByteDance's Doubao AI agent, sold out its initial 30,000 u…
Chinese AI company StepFun has unveiled the StepX Neo, calling it the world's first 'large-model native agentic smartphone' built around AI from the ground up. The device runs on StepFun's native Step…
StepFun, a Shanghai startup backed by Tencent, unveiled the StepX Neo on July 13, calling it the world's first mass-market agentic smartphone that runs on a custom operating system, Step AOS, and feat…
Tencent-backed Chinese startup StepFun on Monday unveiled the StepX Neo, which it claims is the world's first AI-native smartphone, at a launch event in Shanghai. The device runs on Step AOS, an opera…
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…
A backend engineer's field notes from 2026 reveal a 350× price spread between the cheapest and most expensive AI APIs, with Qwen3-8B at $0.01/M output tokens and DeepSeek V4 Pro at $3.50/M. The engine…
StepFun, a Chinese AI unicorn, is developing its first agentic AI smartphone, signaling a shift in AI competition from data centers to mobile devices. The company, backed by electronics supply chain f…
China will debut the world's first AI agent phone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai from July 17-20, according to Shanghai official Tang Wenkan. Huawei will also showcase its…
Huawei will debut its Atlas 950 SuperPoD computing cluster and the world's first AI agent phone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai from July 17-20. China's AI phone and comput…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models through Global API's unified endpoint, measuring time to first token and tokens per second. Step-3.5-Flash from StepFun topped the speed leaderboard with 80 tokens…
AIWave has launched an API that provides access to over 50 Chinese AI models through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The service supports models from DeepSeek, Zhipu, Qwen, and others, enabling d…