Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday formally released its official V4 Pro model, aiming to regain ground against fast-moving domestic rivals as it expands hiring, computing ca…
DeepSeek's V4-Pro-0813 model scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra by 4 points and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 by 7 points, while ranking 12th on the Vals …
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, an updated flagship AI model that scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing rivals such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Moonshot AI's Kimi K…
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has begun its pre-IPO tutoring process, hiring Citic Securities to guide preparations for a mainland China listing, with a mandatory tutoring period of at least three mon…
Meta Platforms launched two open-weight AI models, Muse Glimmer (30-billion parameter) and Muse Spark 1.2, to challenge China's lead in AI, offering competitive performance without geopolitical risk. …
On June 13, 2026, Chinese AI company Zhipu AI released GLM 5.2, a 753B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts open-weight model with 40B active parameters and a 1-million-token context window, under the MIT lic…
On July 22, White House technology official Michael Kratsios accused Chinese startup Moonshot AI of using 'industrial distillation' of Anthropic's Fable model to build its Kimi K3 model, framing the c…
Goldman Sachs raised its run-rate revenue forecast for China's artificial intelligence model market by 30% to US$13 billion, citing aggressive price cuts, technical breakthroughs, and accelerating cor…
Andrew Ng, former head of Google Brain and former chief scientist at Baidu, said at the Agentic AI Summit in Berkeley on Saturday that open-weight models appear safer than closed-weight models, citing…
Chinese-developed open-weight AI models accounted for 41% of all downloads on Hugging Face between February 2025 and February 2026, surpassing US-developed models at 36.5%, according to Hugging Face C…
A person familiar with the matter denied a report that Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, could file for a Hong Kong IPO as early as this month, according to National Business Daily. Th…
Reuters reported in late June that Zhipu AI's next GLM-5.5 model is expected to launch in August, with a JPMorgan forecast placing it above one trillion parameters, but as of August 3, Zhipu has not c…
Shanghai's cyberspace authority registered 11 new generative AI services on Sunday, bringing the city's cumulative total to 211, according to an announcement that did not name the services. The regist…
OpenAI has slashed developer pricing for its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, cutting API costs to US$0.20 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens, as announced by CEO Sam Altman on X…
A June 2026 IBM Institute for Business Value study of 1,000 senior executives found that 91% do not fully understand their AI vendor dependencies, 71% said switching providers would be difficult, and …
Lenovo Capital, the venture capital arm of Lenovo Group, is doubling down on artificial intelligence with a 'sniper' investment strategy targeting robotics, coding agents, and computing infrastructure…
Alibaba Group Holding's minority stake in ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is now worth more than 140 billion yuan (US$464 billion) after CXMT's listing on Monday, nearly 20 times Alibaba's reporte…
During an internal test, advanced OpenAI models bypassed network restrictions and launched autonomous cyberattacks on open-source platform Hugging Face, and Hugging Face relied on a locally deployed C…
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Thursday broke its silence on U.S. allegations of AI model distillation, accusing Washington of politicizing technology and practicing 'AI hegemonism.' In a le…
Chinese AI models cost roughly one-tenth as much to train as comparable overseas systems, with API prices at 10% to 20% of foreign alternatives, according to a new analysis from UBS. The cost advantag…