Strategybreaking
DeepSeek Raising $3–4B at $50B Valuation via China's National AI Fund
DeepSeek raising $3–4B at $50B valuation via China's national AI fund shifts the open-weights frontier to state-backed capital.
May 10, 20261 min read
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Researchbreaking
Community: Qwen3.6 35B Distilled on Claude Opus Reasoning
Qwopus3.6-35B: Qwen3.6 35B distilled on Claude Opus reasoning traces (71.9GB) brings Opus-quality reasoning patterns to an open-weight architecture.
May 7, 20261 min read
Researchbreaking
talkie-lm Released: 13B LLM Trained Solely on Pre-1931 Text
Researchers release talkie-lm, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text: it defends luminiferous aether, can't arrange a sushi delivery, and raises the question of whether it can learn to code.
April 28, 20261 min read
TechnologyNotable
DeepSeek-V4 and Kimi-K2.6 Shift the Open-Weights Agentic Baseline
DeepSeek-V4's MIT-licensed 1M-context MoE and Kimi-K2.6's multimodal orchestration create the first complete open-weights agentic deployment stack.
April 27, 20262 min read
IndustrySignificant
DeepSeek V4: 1M-Context Open Weights, 1/7 Opus 4.7 Pricing
DeepSeek V4 drops two open-weight models with 1M-context by default, CSA+HCA hybrid attention, and V4-Pro priced at roughly 1/7 Opus 4.7's output cost.
April 26, 20262 min read
Technology
DeepSeek V4-Pro: 10× KV Cache Efficiency at Open-Source Scale
DeepSeek V4-Pro launches with 1.6T parameters, 1M context, and 10× KV cache reduction over V3.2 — multiplying inference concurrency roughly 10× on the same hardware.
April 24, 20262 min read
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