Open-weight AI models now handle roughly 70% of production tokens routed through OpenRouter, up from 30% a year ago, as enterprises shift from frontier commercial models to cheaper open alternatives. …
DeepSeek has told prospective investors to pause its second funding round, which was expected to value the company at $71 billion to $74 billion, according to Bloomberg. The Chinese AI company closed …
Z.ai, the Beijing-based AI developer formerly known as Zhipu, has completed construction and begun partial operations at a 1-gigawatt data center built exclusively on Chinese-made AI accelerators, Blo…
A new analysis argues that the open-source versus proprietary AI debate has calcified into a lazy narrative, with many organizations reflexively choosing open-weight models for data sovereignty withou…
Anthropic chief national security officer Tarun Chhabra identified Chinese AI developer Zhipu among companies that have allegedly distilled capabilities from frontier American models, but hours later …
ThoughtDAG, an open-source tool that turns LLM conversations into editable thought graphs, launched with no install or signup required. The project, hosted on GitHub, lets users wire nodes to control …
Open-weight AI models from Chinese labs are proving to be a terrible business, unlike open-source software, according to financial disclosures and analyst reports. Zhipu, the lab behind GLM 5.2, lost …
Chinese AI firm Z.ai (Zhipu) shares surged 37% in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 after completing a 1-gigawatt data centre powered entirely by domestic chips, according to sources. The Beij…
Anthropic dropped plans to charge extra for Claude Fable 5 on July 20, making the model free for Max and Team Premium subscribers within their usage limits, three days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI re…
China's release of competitive open-source AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3, DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM signals that the U.S. is losing its AI edge, according to Alberto Romero of The Algorithmic Bridge…
Z.AI, the Chinese AI lab formerly known as Zhipu, has partially started operating a 1-gigawatt data centre built entirely with Chinese-made chips, marking the first large-scale proof that domestic sil…
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal AI model, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, but provided no…
In early July 2026, Chinese AI chip companies Biren Technology and Iluvatar CoreX returned to capital markets, raising $900 million and $902 million respectively through share placements, while AI mod…
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, an open-weight model with over one trillion parameters that handles images, video, documents and text, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. The Qwen team says…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing Claude Opus 4.8 (56) and ranking #1 on AutomationBench…
Zhipu, the Tsinghua University spinout behind the GLM AI models, has seen its stock surge nearly 1,500 percent since its January IPO at HK$116.20, reaching a peak market cap above $100 billion, despit…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, on July 16, and within a day it topped the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard with a score of 1679, beating Anthropic's Claude Fa…
A new research framework called MOSAIC successfully compromised AI coding agents in 96.59% of 2,525 attempts by exploiting CLI command-composition risk (CCR), a novel attack category that does not rel…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot's new Kimi K3 model has topped the charts on Arena's ranking of front-end coding capability, surprising the U.S. tech industry and signaling that open-source Chinese AI …
Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Thursday, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model that the company claims is the largest ever built, roughly 75% larger than DeepSeek's V4 Pro at 1.6 t…