DeepSeek Raises API Prices Up to 12x With Peak-Hour Billing
DeepSeek will begin peak and off-peak API pricing on August 16, raising some DeepSeek-V4-Pro rates by up to 12 times as demand for its models surges.
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Huawei Cloud Launches Agentic AI Infrastructure in Thailand
Huawei Cloud unveiled a new agentic AI infrastructure stack and opened a beta of its CodeArts coding agent in Thailand, expanding its enterprise AI push in Southeast Asia.
Read more →LimX Dynamics Raises $200M Pre-IPO, Eyes Public Listing
Shenzhen humanoid-robot maker LimX Dynamics closed a nearly $200 million pre-IPO round on July 14, valuing it at about $2.1 billion as it pushes toward a stock listing.
Read more →DeepSeek in Talks for New Funding at $71 Billion Valuation
DeepSeek has opened talks for a new funding round valuing the Chinese AI lab at $71 billion, just weeks after its first outside round closed near $50 billion, the Financial Times reports.
Read more →MiniMax Raises $2B, CEO Forgoes Salary Until AGI Is Achieved
Chinese AI startup MiniMax closed a $2 billion share-and-bond sale after its stock plunged on an IPO lockup expiry, with founder Yan Junjie vowing to forgo salary until AGI is achieved.
Read more →Chinese AI Models Capture Up to 46% of US Firms' Tokens
OpenRouter data shows Chinese AI models now handle over 30% of tokens run by US firms every week since February, peaking at 46%, as companies chase costs up to 90% lower than Anthropic or OpenAI.
Read more →China's GLM-5.2 Rivals US Frontier AI at One-Sixth the Cost
Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight model that matches GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks and trails Claude Opus 4.8 narrowly — trained entirely on Huawei silicon with no Nvidia hardware.
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