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business6 days ago•1 min saved

Unitree Rockets on Shanghai Debut with a 542% IPO Surge

Unitree Robotics jumped 542% on its Shanghai STAR Market debut after raising about 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in its IPO, with shares trading around 968 yuan after earlier highs near 1,100. Backers include Tencent and DeepSeek, and ahead of listing the company unveiled its 'Superman' humanoid, capable of a two-meter jump and speeds up to 12.66 m/s. Morgan Stanley expects China’s humanoid robot shipments to reach about 50,000 this year as the market grows from roughly $2 billion to $15 billion by 2030, with pilots moving to broader deployments and full-size humanoids increasing their share of shipments by 2028.

via CNBC|

#business #deepseek #humanoid-robot

technology10 days ago•1 min saved

DeepSeek Doubles AI API Prices with Peak/Off-Peak Tiers

DeepSeek is raising the price of its AI API with the launch of V4 Pro and V4 Flash, introducing peak and off-peak pricing starting Aug. 16: V4 Pro at $3.96 per 1M tokens at peak and $1.98 off-peak; V4 Flash at $1.32 peak and $0.66 off-peak. The hikes follow earlier promotional pricing, intended to allocate resources more reasonably, but DeepSeek remains cheaper than many rivals (Moonshot K3 at $15/1M; GPT-5.6 Sol at $30), though its Luna offering at $1.20/1M is even cheaper than V4 Flash at peak.

via Engadget|

#ai-pricing #deepseek #peak-off-peak-pricing

technology11 days ago•27 min saved

DeepSeek Quadruples AI Model Prices, Yet Remains Cheaper Than Rivals

China’s DeepSeek has quadrupled prices for its flagship V4 AI models, with peak-hour pricing for the DeepSeek-v4-pro rising to $3.96 per 1 million output tokens (from $0.87), effective Aug 16; even after the hike, the company says its rates stay far below U.S. and Chinese competitors, and it’s in talks for a new fundraising round after raising over $7.4 billion.

via WSJ|

#ai-models #artificial-intelligence #deepseek

technology22 days ago•3 min saved

DeepSeek’s V4 Flash slashes coding costs and accelerates AI’s price race

DeepSeek released V4 Flash, a powerful coding model that charges pennies per output—about 28 cents versus roughly $25 for OpenAI’s Opus 4.8—marking a rapid commoditization of AI models as a price war spreads among frontier labs and big tech. As models become cheaper and more capable, buyers will prioritize cost and efficiency over brand, potentially weakening pricing power for top labs and boosting the case for automated “intelligent routers” that pick the best model for each task. OpenAI says massive usage can sustain profitability despite thinner margins, while the broader trend shows both the US and China pushing for abundant AI, with profitability still to be proven.

via Axios|

#ai-pricing #deepseek #frontier-ai

artificial-intelligence1 month ago•16 min saved

Leak Fallout Delays DeepSeek Funding as Its Introverted CEO Faces Backlash

DeepSeek reportedly canceled its planned Hangzhou funding round after a leaked, unverified interview attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng circulated online, stirring investor skepticism about China’s AI progress and Nvidia’s role in the ecosystem. Bloomberg cites anonymous sources saying Liang is frustrated by the backlash, and while the deal may resume later, the company is also pursuing an IPO before year’s end.

via Gizmodo|

#artificial-intelligence #china-ai #deepseek

business1 month ago•28 min saved

AI-chip jitters weigh on markets as chipmakers skid

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell on ongoing AI-chip concerns after Reuters reported that China’s DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, prompting a broad chip-stock sell-off led by Nvidia; Samsung posted strong earnings but sentiment remained fragile. Rivian slid after unveiling a new share offering, while the Dow inched higher as consumer staples and healthcare outperformed amid the tech drag.

via Yahoo Finance|

#ai #business #deepseek

technology2 months ago•4 min saved

Sovereign AI: Why governments are staking bets in frontier labs

The Financial Times argues that the US and China are moving from regulating AI to directly owning stakes in frontier AI labs, treating AI as strategic national infrastructure. Trump has floated government equity in OpenAI and xAI, while China backs DeepSeek through state funds, signaling a shift from policy to ownership across the AI stack—from chips to models and, soon, governance. This raises complex questions about balancing national security with shareholder value as governments gain influence over the direction of AI development.

via Financial Times|

#artificial-intelligence #deepseek #nvidia

technology2 months ago•5 min saved

Low-Cost Chinese AI Finds Favor in U.S. Startups

US developers are increasingly using affordable Chinese AI models like DeepSeek to cut costs, with some reporting similar output quality to more expensive rivals; startups and mid-sized firms are saving millions and even large platforms are testing DeepSeek as a cheaper option. Yet Chinese model makers face political scrutiny and data-security concerns in the U.S., complicating monetization as users access via US clouds or open-source variants. The key test ahead is turning usage into revenue and earning enterprise trust, while incumbents consider price reductions to stay competitive.

via Rest of World|

#aiinfrastructure #chineseai #costsavings

technology3 months ago•89 min saved

DeepSeek slashes V4-Pro price by 75% amid Huawei chip supply dynamics

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek will permanently cut its flagship V4-Pro AI model price by 75%, keeping costs at a quarter of the original and API pricing at 0.025–6 yuan per million tokens. DeepSeek did not specify whether the cut is tied to a higher Huawei Ascend 950 chip supply, but the move comes as Huawei’s AI chips and U.S. export controls shape China’s high-end compute access; when V4 was launched, Pro pricing was up to 12x Flash owing to limited compute, with expectations of steeper declines once Ascend 950 supernodes are deployed more broadly later this year.

via Reuters|

#ai #chip-supply #deepseek

technology4 months ago•75 min saved

The AI price split: why the middle market is disappearing

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 pricing (about $5 input, $30 output per million tokens) and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4-Pro/Flash offerings have created a two-cluster AI market, widening the cost gap between a closed, vendor-managed product and cheaper, open infrastructure. The once-smooth price-performance curve now shows a thinning middle, forcing developers to route workloads across the high-end integrated stack and the lower-cost open-weight stack, and reshaping how AI agents and coding assistants are built and deployed.

via The New Stack|

#ai-pricing #coding-agents #deepseek

ai4 months ago•32 min saved

DeepSeek’s V4 AI preview targets US rivals with coding edge

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model, saying it can compete toe-to-toe with Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with a notable focus on coding. The open‑source approach and emphasis on compatibility with Huawei tech mark a milestone for China’s chip industry, but details on training costs and hardware remain undisclosed amid past accusations of banned Nvidia chips and alleged Claude misuse.

via The Verge|

#ai #coding #deepseek

technology4 months ago•312 min saved

DeepSeek’s V4 Preview Pushes China’s Open-Source AI Ambitions Forward

China’s DeepSeek unveiled a preview of its new V4 AI model, touting stronger reasoning and autonomous coding abilities, and powered by domestic Huawei/Cambricon chips to reduce Nvidia reliance. The open-source V4 aims to rival OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, continuing China’s push to scale AI applications across sectors. Analysts expect market reaction to be more muted than last year’s R1 debut, as the global AI landscape remains volatile amid US-China tech tensions over model distillation.

via CNN|

#china-ai #deepseek #huawei-ascend-950

technology4 months ago•2 min saved

DeepSeek Unveils V4-Pro and V4-Flash, Accelerating the US-China AI Showdown

DeepSeek released its latest chatbots, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash, claiming strong maths and coding performance and positioning them as open-source rivals to OpenAI and Google, with V4-Pro only slightly behind Google’s Gemini 3.1-Pro for knowledge and marginally trailing OpenAI’s GPT-5.4; the Flash version offers faster responses at lower cost. The rollout underscores the ongoing US–China AI race amid privacy and censorship concerns that led to bans on DeepSeek-R1 in several countries, while the Stanford AI Index 2026 notes China leads in publications, citations, patents, and industrial deployments despite the US producing more top-tier models.

via Al Jazeera|

#ai-models #artificial-intelligence #deepseek

technology6 months ago•6 min saved

Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude

Anthropic alleges that three Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—carried out industrial-scale distillation attacks to illicitly copy Claude, generating over 16 million exchanges with Claude through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts and violating terms of service and regional access restrictions; the company frames the campaigns as a national-security concern and is calling for rapid cross‑industry, government, and policy-maker cooperation to counter such abuses.

via Mashable|

#anthropic #claude #deepseek

technology6 months ago•1 min saved

Chinese AI Systems Tilt Responses Toward Beijing

New analyses suggest Chinese AI models like Alibaba's Qwen3 and DeepSeek steer answers toward a pro-Beijing stance, with Qwen3 instructed to emphasize China’s achievements and avoid negatives, while other countries receive neutral treatment; a separate Estonia intelligence report accuses DeepSeek of concealing information and weaving Chinese propaganda into responses, underscoring how our AIs mirror their developers' biases.

via Axios|

#ai-bias #chinese-ai #deepseek