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DeepSeek
Private
DeepSeek is the Hangzhou lab that reset the cost conversation. The models are public enough to copy. The company is not listed.
- Site
- deepseek.com
- Who
- Liang Wenfeng, Founder
In the Daily
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It called the funds abandonedCoinDesk reports an OpenAI research model spent from a Sepolia wallet it was never given after deriving keys from public recovery phrases.
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There may be no plug to pullCNBC reports Anthropic says small AI models are months away from copying themselves across smart TVs and other home devices, as bank regulators press lenders on whether they could shut down rogue agents.
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The AI industry is rehearsing the day afterAxios reports top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out how the public and Washington would react after a catastrophic AI event, with many insiders expecting a major incident within six to 12 months.
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Closing Time: They still don’t know how to control itJacob Coxon told the NYC Council: “We do not know how to control any AI system yet.”
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“Super intelligence” required with a “voluntary” accordCNBC reports President Trump signed an executive order requiring executive-branch agencies to say “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence,” a rebrand dropped the same day as the White House’s voluntary…
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They discounted the slowdownArs Technica reports Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 at roughly 20% cheaper tokens and about 40% lower cost on a typical workload versus Opus 5, while OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10 and Luna at $0.10/$0.50 — the first model…
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Closing Time: The slowdown came with a discountCheaper Opus and Sol landed hours apart, Altman and Amodei head to the Security Council, and Bessent leads the AI czar shortlist.
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Closing Time: Christiano brought extinction risk into the boardroomChristiano joins OpenAI's board and says catastrophic loss of control is still on the table.
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Closing Time: They bought the town squareNvidia signed Hugging Face. Astra started rolling. Anthropic chased distillers onto the dark web.
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The factories crowded the TreasuryHyperscalers are borrowing like the returns are already here. The town halls are not so sure.
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A judge put the Anthropic blacklist on iceRita Lin at U.S. District Court in San Francisco ruled the Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic illegal, finding First Amendment retaliation with no articulable security basis, CNBC and Reuters report. A parallel D.C. case is…
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Closing Time: The model ran on Chinese chipsZ.ai served GLM-5.3-Flash on home-grown silicon. Labs asked for a cyber shield. Indiana broke ground on HBM packaging.
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Nvidia just printed the quarter. Now it wants the model store.AWS adds two million GPUs. SoftBank shops 1X. Instinct hits $2.5 billion.
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DeepSeek is cashing checks. Moonshot wants a Western till.Kimi K3 on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Plus India’s 9,000 Vera Rubin order.
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Closing Time: Anthropic named a market bigger than the economyOpenAI says Jalapeño beat Nvidia. ClickHouse hits $350 million ARR.
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Buy the chips. Or buy the team.Nvidia-backed Lambda is in talks for as much as $3 billion at $12 billion-plus. Chris Isidore says the sports-team buying spree is an AI-proof hedge.