DeepSeek
Digital Economy
Zhipu AI Price Hike: China’s Shift from Price Wars to Revenue Models
Zhipu's second price hike in 2026 signals China's AI industry shift from price wars to sustainable monetization as infrastructure costs surge.
AI & Automation
Hunter Alpha Unmasked: How Xiaomi’s Trillion-Parameter MiMo-V2-Pro Fooled the AI World
The anonymous Hunter Alpha model that topped OpenRouter for a week was Xiaomi’s trillion-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, built by ex-DeepSeek talent at a fifth the cost.
AI & Automation
Model Distillation Wars: How Chinese Labs Industrialized the Extraction of Western AI
Anthropic accused DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI of using 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million queries to extract Claude's capabilities at industrial scale.
Policy & Regulation
Open Source AI: The Policy Battle That Will Define the Next Decade of Technology
When Meta released Llama 3 in April 2024 with open weights — making the model's parameters freely downloadable by anyone — it ignited one of the most significant policy debates in AI history. When DeepSeek followed with R1 in January 2025, demonstrating that Chinese
AI & Automation
The China-US AI Race: How DeepSeek and Open-Source Models Are Reshaping the Industry
The DeepSeek Shock On January 20, 2025, a Chinese AI lab called DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1 — a reasoning model that matched OpenAI's o1 on key benchmarks, ran at roughly 95% lower inference cost, and was released as open-weight software under the MIT License. The reaction
