DeepSeek published DeepInfer on GitHub on 28 October, the inference engine that serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. No new model shipped with it. What shipped is the machinery that turns a trained model into a service. The company also disclosed the scale it is built for: a single cluster handling roughly 155 trillion tokens a day. At that … Read more
The most interesting number in Anthropic’s IPO filing is not the loss. It is 26 per cent. In the registration statement lodged with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 26 October, Anthropic disclosed that about 26 per cent of its research and development tasks had reached what it calls AL4 automation by August 2026. … Read more
On 28 October, Chen Mingxiu registered Muling Technology in Hangzhou’s Yuhang district. Registered capital was about RMB 1.5625 million. The stated direction is physical recursive self-improvement, the idea that a robot should improve its own learning process through contact with the physical world rather than depend on human annotation and on-site tuning. Chen previously headed … Read more
HyperVolve Intelligent has closed an angel round in the several hundreds of millions of yuan. BlueRun Ventures China led, with SenseTime Guoxiang Capital, Legend Star, Inno Angel and a Tsinghua alumni seed fund participating. Lansong Capital is long-term strategic financial adviser. The company began operating in late August. Two months and no product is, on … Read more
Anthropic filed its IPO registration on 26 October, planning a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT. One of the fastest-rising names in AI is now walking towards public capital markets. The filing is not a listing. The final offer price, the size of the raise and the trading date all remain undetermined. What has changed … Read more
Three stories ran through the Chinese AI press in the same week, each one circulating on its own channel. The first was a coordinated price cut by the three American frontier labs. Within nine days, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic each slashed headline pricing on their main models and arrived at the same pair of numbers: … Read more
China’s richest people are usually easy to explain. They own listed shares whose value is set every day by strangers. Liang Wenfeng’s fortune is different. It rests on a company that has no public shareholders, no disclosed revenue and no product for retail customers to buy. DeepSeek is valued near USD 75 billion before any … Read more
The most valuable asset in AI search may be the plumbing rather than the answer. Tencent upgraded its Yuanbao search on 20 October and opened it to individual developers and enterprises through Tencent Cloud as an API. Behind it sits an index the company describes as reaching a hundred billion scale, built from public web … Read more
Moonshot AI has not launched anything. The model’s name appeared in a teaser video, in an API config file, in a code editor menu, and then in an arena leaderboard under a codename, and the benchmarks people are running against it already tell a story. The trail started in late September, when developers found a … Read more
Nvidia’s favourite cloud customer is now the clearest test of whether the AI build-out can pay for itself. CoreWeave, the neocloud that borrows against GPU fleets and contracted compute orders, has been hit on both sides of its capital structure. Its shares fell more than 23 per cent in eight trading days and sit 55.7 … Read more