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DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.

How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Network Traffic, Not The Outputs)

This study from Suganthan reveals hidden fields in ChatGPT's network traffic that decide which sources get fetched, cited, or ...
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DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge

DeepSeek’s record $7.4bn raise, 381 unicorns, and two new robot unicorns show US pressure is fuelling the boom.

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.
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DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing

The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the ...
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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.