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DeepSeek V4 introduces utility-style AI pricing in shift beyond China's LLM price war

DeepSeek will launch the official version of its V4 large language model (LLM) in mid-July alongside peak and off-peak API ...

IBM’s 1-nanometer chip, Google’s AI policy pitch, and Chinese AI

GLM-5.2 continues to rank among the 10 most-used AI models on OpenRouter’s LLM leaderboard, siting alongside models from Anthropic, Deepseek, Xiaomi and Tencent. In some benchmarking tests, according ...

VCs Pour $3 Billion Into AI's Next Big Bet: World Models

Venture investors poured more than $3 billion into world model startups in 2026, betting AI that can simulate the physical ...
TRT World

New AI model by China's Meituan trained on domestic chips, company says

Beijing has accelerated efforts to develop advanced domestic chips and reduce its reliance on American hardware amid an ...
NewsBytes

This is China's biggest AI model trained on local chips

China achieves a breakthrough in AI development as Meituan unveils LongCat-2.0, the nation's largest model trained entirely ...
InfoQ

Inside Target’s LLM-Based System for Semantic Matching in Marketing Forecast Pipelines

Target built a generative AI system to improve marketing campaign forecasting by retrieving and ranking similar historical ...

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
Tech Times

Most AI Models Would Run Your Company Into the Ground, Princeton’s CEO-Bench Finds

Princeton’s CEO-Bench gave 14 AI models $1 million to run a simulated SaaS startup for 500 days. Most went bankrupt or lost ...

DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec Signals a New Era for Open-Source AI, Boosting AI Efficiency By 85%

Explore how DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec and Zepu AI's GLM 5.5 are closing the gap with frontier models like Claude Mythos in 2026.
Computing

The era of cheap AI is ending – what comes next?

Organisations are becoming increasingly concerned about the rising cost of AI. With many projects yet to demonstrate a ...

India Risks Permanent Dependence On Foreign AI Tools Unless It Builds Its Own 'DeepSeek-Like' Sovereign Model: Bernstein

India risks becoming permanently dependent on foreign AI models unless it develops sovereign large language models, warns ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

A Practitioner's Guide to Using Large Language Models and Generative AI in Economic History

Large language models (LLMs) are lowering the entry barriers to working with exciting data sources that used to require strong data science skills, such as handwritten ledgers, text, images, or sound ...