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.
Anthropic posted over $1 billion in profit in Q3 2026
According to SemiAnalysis, the company behind Claude achieved quarterly profit exceeding $1 billion in 3Q26, which could signal an upcoming IPO.
Infinity-Parser2 surpassed DeepSeek-OCR-2 in document parsing and opened a dataset of 5 million examples
The multimodal model Infinity-Parser2 scored a record 87.6% on olmOCR-Bench, surpassing DeepSeek-OCR-2 and MinerU2.5, and released a corpus of 5 million annotated…
Alibaba researchers discover a DoS vulnerability in reasoning AI models
Scientists from Zhejiang University and Alibaba showed at ICML 2026 that logically contradictory prompts send GPT-o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.5 Flash into useless…
DeepSeek develops its own AI chip for its neural networks — Reuters
Microsoft launched Foundry Managed Compute: thousands of Hugging Face models with one click
Former Qwen Technical Lead: Why Hybrid Reasoning Failed and What's Next
DeepSeek introduces double tariff during peak hours — first in China's AI price war
Mistral AI: the leading European challenger to OpenAI with open models
Mistral AI is a French company founded in 2023 that develops open language models and challenges OpenAI with the goal of making cutting-edge AI accessible to…
Rented Intelligence: Why Russia Is Losing the Battle for AI Sovereignty
A Habr analyst breaks down why renting Western AI models leads to a dead end, how labor replacement pumps money abroad, and what lawmakers will respond with.
Cloudflare set a deadline for AI crawlers: from September 2026 — pay publishers or face blocking
Together AI raised $800M in Series C to develop open-source AI
Palantir released a manifesto on AI sovereignty and attacked the token-based AI monetization model
Together AI raised $800 million in Series C: Aramco and Nvidia valued the company at $8 billion
DeepSeek closes the largest funding round in China — $7.4 billion at a valuation above $50 billion
Chinese AI startups are drawing record investment: DeepSeek has closed the largest first funding round in the country’s history — $7.4 billion at a valuation above…
US pressures Anthropic: allies panic over threat of technological lag
The Trump administration stepped up pressure on Anthropic, alarming US allies that had built their AI strategies around American technology.