DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab, backed by the High-Flyer hedge fund, that shook the industry with open reasoning models trained at a fraction of Western costs. Its R1 release in early 2025 wiped hundreds of billions off US tech stocks and made training efficiency a global priority. All our DeepSeek coverage is collected here.

Claude Code Launches: Building a Free AI Stack for Coding on Your Hardware
The software development industry has long lived under the illusion that a quality AI assistant must cost twenty dollars a month and exist s

Tencent Hunyuan: Why the Chinese Giant Is Revealing DeepSeek Acceleration Secrets
While the whole world argues about whose language model produces fewer hallucinations, the real battle has moved to the "basements" — where

Yao Shunyue at Tencent: why the leading AI research star started with the basics

Baidu OpenClaw: Chinese Giant Makes Life Easier for Developers (For Now, Free)

Kimi K2.5: Chinese 'Smarty' Beat OpenAI and Went After Dollars

Kimi K2.5 and OpenClaw: the Chinese answer to Claude goes free

Nvidia and DeepSeek: How Engineer 'Complicity' Bypasses US Sanctions
Remember that shock when Chinese DeepSeek rolled out its V3 and R1 models, which in terms of intelligence were no worse than GPT-4o, but cos

Sunrise S3: China's Answer to Video Memory Hunger and Expensive Generation
While the industry is gasping from video memory shortage and H100 price tags, the Chinese company Sunrise decided to come in with the trump













