DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab, backed by the High-Flyer hedge fund, that shook the industry with open reasoning models trained at a fraction of Western costs. Its R1 release in early 2025 wiped hundreds of billions off US tech stocks and made training efficiency a global priority. All our DeepSeek coverage is collected here.
The Poetry of Agentic Development: How to Code with Agents When Ease Breeds Complexity
A Yandex developer breaks down why agents speed up coding but create complex systems. Research shows LLMs generate 2.3x more lines of code, fail to avoid…
Open-Source Agent vs. 1C Napar: Hybrid RAG on DeepSeek Wins in Practice
Habr tested a self-built LangGraph agent with hybrid RAG search against the commercial 1C Napar assistant. On three real developer tasks using deepseek-v4-flash…
I Wrote 61 Tests for My AI Mentor. Then I Found Out You Can't Trust the Tests Either
A developer built 61 tests to check an AI mentor on a coding education platform. But the test bench itself had bugs: it marked cut-off answers as passing and let…
Western open-weight models pitch businesses an alternative to Chinese and closed AI
Epoch AI Releases Digest: AI Prices Plummet, Billions of Agents Coming
A Non-Programmer Used Claude Code to Rebuild an English-Learning App With a Server and Offline Mode
Shengshu releases Vidu Q4 Preview, aiming for a "DeepSeek moment" for video
PewDiePie Trains Uncensored Ajax Model at Home After Two OpenAI Bans
PewDiePie is building Ajax, an uncensored AI model trained at home. Fireship reports the trigger was two OpenAI bans for distillation.
Google, China, and the British AI institute: how models are learning to break down, hack, and jam
Three studies showed where frontier AI is heading: Google's models break down under pressure, cyber agents are advancing quickly, and China is training AI for…
Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Max, China's Largest Model and a Rival to Fable 5 and GPT
Chinese AI Lab Researchers Are Taking Over X While OpenAI and Anthropic Go Quiet
Chinese Models Sweep OpenRouter's Top 5: MiMo-V2.5 Leads With 10.5 Trillion Tokens
OpenAI Publishes 'Abundant Intelligence' Strategy: AI to Become More Accessible
DeepSeek Pauses 480 Billion Yuan Funding Round After Founder's Remarks Leak
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng verbally asked investors to hold off on the round after his private comments leaked and went viral on Chinese social media.
US Leans Toward Targeted Bans on Chinese Open-Weight Models, Not a Blanket Prohibition
The Trump administration is reportedly leaning toward banning specific Chinese open-weight AI models rather than imposing a blanket ban, citing security, according…