DeepSeek’s ‘kill line’: why a model 85 times cheaper is resetting the default

DeepSeek V4 Flash is redrawing how models are judged. On OpenCode, a single AI coding tool, the model burned 8 trillion tokens in one day, more than the entire OpenRouter platform’s daily average of about 6.6 trillion across 400-plus models. The reason is price. DeepSeek charges about 2 yuan per million output tokens; Anthropic’s Claude … Read more

Huawei’s chief semiconductor scientist breaks his silence and praises DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng

The forerunner’s bet Liao frames the past 30 years as two vertical lines, the processor line from CPU to AI and the connectivity line from telephone to mobile network, with a counter-intuitive proposition: the more successful and monopolised the application layer, the more the underlying chip withers, because a dominant customer sets direction and a … Read more

Humanoid Robots: Cool Demos, Zero Buyers

Humanoid robots can dance, backflip, and run marathons. What they cannot do, it turns out, is find enough paying customers. A growing number of analysts are asking an uncomfortable question about the humanoid robot boom: who is actually buying these machines? The answer, according to a detailed analysis published on Chinese tech media Sohu IT, … Read more