What Is DeepSeek? The Chinese AI Lab That Rattled Silicon Valley
DeepSeek is the Chinese AI lab whose cheaply trained, open-weight models triggered Nvidia's biggest one-day stock drop and reshaped how the industry talks about AI costs.
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Every AI News story tagged with both AI in China and Open-Source AI — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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What Is GLM? Zhipu AI's Open-Weight Model Family, Explained
GLM is the open-weight AI model family from Chinese lab Zhipu AI (Z.ai) — free to download and self-host, and competitive with top US models at a fraction of the API cost.
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.
Read more →Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a Frontier-Class Coding Model Built on Chinese Chips
Chinese technology company Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter coding model trained entirely on domestic Chinese chips, under the MIT License — the first frontier-class open-source model built without Western semiconductors.
Read more →Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 on Coding at a Sixth of the Price
Chinese lab Zhipu AI has open-sourced GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter model that outperforms GPT-5.5 on software engineering benchmarks while costing roughly one-sixth as much.
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