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.
PEARL: A 4B Model Beats DeepSeek-V3.2 685B at Optimization Modeling
PEARL translates natural-language problems into solver code and fixes it in a loop. Its 4B-parameter version outperformed the 685B-parameter DeepSeek-V3.2.
Thinky Releases Open Inkling 975B-A41B Model Under Apache 2.0 License
Thinky has released Inkling, a 975B-parameter multimodal MoE model with open weights under Apache 2.0, plus a compact 276B version, Inkling-Small.
Kimi K3: The Largest Open AI Model Yet, Claimed to Match Opus 4.8 at Sonnet 5 Pricing
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model (about 50B active) and the largest open model ever. It claims Opus 4.8-level quality at Sonnet…
DeepSeek's $7.4B Round Pushes Asian Startup Funding to a Three-Year High
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: A New 'DeepSeek Moment' and the Chips-vs-Architecture Debate
Moonshot AI Halts Kimi K3 Subscriptions as Demand Outstrips Compute Capacity
Moonshot Releases Kimi K3, the Largest Open Model Yet at 2.8 Trillion Parameters
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: An Escalation in the Open-Weights Race, and What It Means for AI
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, an open-weights model. Researcher Nathan Lambert of Interconnects calls it an escalation in the open-weights race with global…
White House Divided Over How to Respond to Chinese AI Models Like DeepSeek
The Trump administration is split on how to answer increasingly powerful Chinese AI models like DeepSeek: tighten chip export controls or strengthen US AI companies.
Arcee: Chinese AI Models Aren't Inherently Dangerous, Says US Open-Source Lab
DeepSeek Leads Wave of AI Unicorns: 10 AI Labs Add $65 Billion in June 2026
4 Mac Studios in One Cluster: 1.5 TB of Memory for Trillion-Parameter LLMs
Trump's AI Czar Resigns Again: CAISI Director Post Becomes a Revolving Door
MiniMax developing world's largest open LLM with 2.7 trillion parameters
Chinese startup MiniMax is creating a language model with 2.7 trillion parameters — according to Reuters, it's the largest open AI model released by a Chinese…
Qwen3.6 and MCP: How to Build a Local AI System Without Integration Code for Each Model
KDnuggets shows how to build a local AI system using the Qwen3.6 model from Alibaba Cloud and the MCP protocol—without writing integration code for each model.