Nvidia Builds a Trillion-Parameter Open Model as the Open-Source Race Goes Vertical
Nvidia is developing an open-source artificial-intelligence model with at least a trillion parameters, according to The Information, a scale that would put the chipmaker in direct competition with the largest…
Chinese AI Labs Match Anthropic on Safety, Reshaping the Race
Chinese and Japanese model developers are claiming parity with Anthropic’s flagship model, known internally as Mythos, on safety benchmarks, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and The Information,…
Microsoft Moves Copilot to Usage-Based Pricing, Adds DeepSeek for Enterprise
REDMOND — Microsoft is changing how it sells its AI assistant, shifting Copilot from a flat subscription to billing based on token usage and adding DeepSeek’s models as a lower-cost…
DeepSeek Closes Record $7 Billion Round With Unusual Terms
The announcement had been expected for months; the terms had not. DeepSeek said Tuesday it has completed its first external funding round of more than $7 billion, roughly 50 billion…
ChatGPT’s Share of the AI Assistant Market Dips Below 50%
For more than three years, the consumer AI story had a single main character. The numbers published Tuesday suggest the script is changing. ChatGPT’s share of the AI assistant market…
Tencent Sells $4.5 Billion of Bonds as It Buys Back Shares
HONG KONG—The announcement hit the exchange before the market opened: Tencent Holdings had priced $2.45 billion of dollar notes and 15 billion yuan of renminbi notes, roughly $4.5 billion in…
DeepSeek Plans Gigawatt-Scale Data Centers of Its Own
HANGZHOU, China—The job posting appeared on DeepSeek’s careers page on a Tuesday with a title the company had never used before: IDC design and planning engineer. The description said the…
U.S. Companies Begin Paying DeepSeek Directly
The quarterly report Ramp publishes to show which software tools are winning corporate budgets carried a first on Monday. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab, topped the “breakthrough growth” ranking, the…
Global AI Usage Rises for a Fifth Week, Led by Chinese Models
The counter on OpenRouter’s dashboard keeps climbing. The service, which routes traffic from developers to hundreds of AI models, recorded 28.9 trillion tokens of usage in the week ending May…
Moonshot AI Unwinds Its Offshore Structure to Chase a Hong Kong IPO
The holding company is coming down. Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial-intelligence startup behind the Kimi assistant, has notified shareholders that it plans to dismantle its variable-interest-entity and red-chip structure, according…
