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DeepSeek

AI research company

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max as open weights, undercutting US model pricing

New Capabilities

Undercuts Qwen3.8-Max's price with V4 Pro launch

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max weights landed on Hugging Face on August 12, nine days after the API launch. The download is smaller than promised: it skips the 1-million-token context and image input of the hosted model, and the 27-billion-parameter version has not shipped.

Updated Aug 14

DeepSeek ships V4-Pro and raises its prices

New Capabilities

Releasing its flagship model, raising prices, and closing a large funding round

DeepSeek's flagship model left preview on August 13. Independent benchmark results are mixed: V4-Pro scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing a mid-tier OpenAI GPT-5.6 model but roughly matching Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2, while beating Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on cybersecurity tests.

Updated Aug 14

China's AI overhaul of traditional medicine

New Capabilities

Leading Chinese AI model integrated into TCM platforms

For over 2,000 years, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have diagnosed patients by reading pulses and examining tongues—subjective skills that take decades to master. Now AI systems are doing it in under two minutes.

Updated May 26

Big tech's half-trillion-dollar AI bet

Money Moves

Disrupting assumptions about AI infrastructure costs

The four largest cloud providers—Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon—are tracking toward over $720 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending for 2026, up sharply from $410 billion in 2025. All four reported first-quarter results on April 29, 2026. Microsoft delivered the clearest signal: $77.7 billion in revenue (up 18% year-over-year), Azure cloud growth of 40% (above its 37% guidance), and earnings per share of $4.13 versus analyst estimates of $3.67.

Updated May 26

America's AI arms race

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Disrupted US AI infrastructure thesis

The White House mobilized America's 17 national laboratories and major tech companies—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA. The Genesis Mission aims to double US research productivity in a decade by connecting supercomputers, quantum systems, and AI into one discovery platform. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced 24 corporate partners at a January 11 summit.

Updated May 20