DeepSeek signals ‘significant’ price hike amid surge in demand for low-cost AI models
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- South China Morning Postseen 6 Aug, 08:20description edited
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DeepSeek announced on Thursday a “significant” price hike, amid surging global demand for a new ultra-cheap model, which sparked debate over how the Chinese AI start-up has delivered powerful performance at rock-bottom prices. DeepSeek would raise overall pricing for its application programming interface (API) services “in the near future”, with specific plans to be advised later, the Hangzhou-based company said in a statement on its developer platform on Thursday. A “significant increase”...DeepSeek announced on Thursday a “significant” price hike, amid surging global demand for a new ultra-cheap model, which sparked debate over how the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up has delivered powerful performance at rock-bottom prices. Overall pricing for its application programming interface (API) services would be raised “in the near future”, with specific plans to be advised later, the Hangzhou-based company said in a statement on its developer platform on Thursday. A...
- South China Morning Postseen 2 Sept, 14:24description edited
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Tencent Holdings’ strategy of using its vast product ecosystem to train its new Hy4 preview model gives it an edge in developing AI agents and brings its flagship model suite back into the top tier of open-source offerings, according to analysts. The Chinese tech giant’s “differentiated product-plus-model strategy”, where preview models were first deployed across Tencent’s suite of products, enabled it to collect user data before feeding the information back into subsequent rounds of...Tencent Holdings’ use of its vast product ecosystem to train its new Hy4 preview model gives it an edge in developing AI agents and brings its flagship model suite back into the top tier of open-source offerings, according to analysts. The Chinese tech giant’s “differentiated product-plus-model strategy”, where preview models were first deployed across Tencent’s suite of products, enabled it to collect user data before feeding the information back into subsequent rounds of training, Goldman...
- South China Morning Postseen 3 Sept, 11:41description edited
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Enflame Technology, one of China’s leading AI chipmakers, has sparked a retail frenzy for its 6.12 billion yuan (US$910.9 million) initial public offering (IPO) in Shanghai’s tech-heavy Star Market, underscoring growing investor appetite for home-grown alternatives to Nvidia. The Tencent Holdings-backed chipmaker saw the retail portion of its IPO oversubscribed by 4,073 times, with about 7 million online investors alone submitting orders for 42.1 billion shares, according to its filing to the...Enflame Technology, one of China’s leading AI chipmakers, has sparked a retail frenzy for its 6.12 billion yuan (US$910.9 million) initial public offering in Shanghai’s tech-heavy Star Market, underscoring growing investor appetite for home-grown alternatives to Nvidia. The Tencent Holdings-backed chipmaker saw the retail portion of its IPO oversubscribed by 4,073 times, with about 7 million online investors alone submitting orders for 42.1 billion shares, according to its filing to the...
- Times of Indiaseen 4 Sept, 21:43headline rewritten
From grasslands to GPUs: Why China is building its AI engine in Inner MongoliaChina is building its AI engine in the middle of nowhere; here's why
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Thu, 6 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post05:01first to reportedited after publishing
DeepSeek announced on Thursday a “significant” price hike, amid surging global demand for a new ultra-cheap model, which sparked debate over how the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up has delivered powerful performance at rock-bottom prices. Overall pricing for its application programming interface (API) services would be raised “in the near future”, with specific plans to be advised later, the Hangzhou-based company said in a statement on its developer platform on Thursday. A...
Fri, 7 August 2026
3 reports- South China Morning Post04:23
The long-awaited initial public offering of Unitree Robotics, which values the Hangzhou-based firm at 60.99 billion yuan (US$9 billion), is set to serve as a valuation benchmark for China’s booming embodied-AI sector, buoyed by retail investor excitement and high-profile AI backers like DeepSeek. Widely billed as “mainland China’s first humanoid stock”, Unitree has priced its IPO on Shanghai’s Star Market at 150.8 yuan per share, according to a filing released Thursday evening. The firm will...
- news.az14:15
The Envision Galaxy Campus in Ulanqab began operations on Thursday, according to state-run media. Developed by green technology company Envision Group...
- Anadolu Agency (AA)16:59
New facility is designed to support one million GPUs in parallel and operate largely on renewable energy
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- Index.hr (Croatia)7 Aug, 15:07their copy
Sat, 8 August 2026
1 report- thenextweb.com12:21
Firebird opened the CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia. The GPU count matters less than the export licence and the Kazakh minister in the room.
Sun, 9 August 2026
1 report- yahoo.com05:20
High-performing open-weight models could put downward pressure on pricing for the leading U.S. frontier labs.
Thu, 13 August 2026
3 reports- scmp.com08:00
Chinese AI start-up’s model impresses in niche areas like cybersecurity but leaves some developers disappointed in its overall capabilities.
- Channel News Asia11:57
- pymnts.com19:13
DeepSeek is adding peak-hour pricing for its flagship V4 models that will quadruple the current levels, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13). The pricing
Sun, 16 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post03:00
China’s southern manufacturing powerhouse of Guangdong province welcomed nearly 40 computer science students from Tsinghua University this week, part of a targeted push by local authorities to bridge a widening gap in China’s artificial intelligence race by attracting top-tier talent from Beijing. Despite raising two of China’s brightest minds in artificial intelligence – Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin and DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng – Guangdong failed to retain either. After graduating...
Sat, 22 August 2026
1 report- iRozhlas (Czechia)05:00
Google u rakouského Lince staví jedno z největších datových center zaměřených na AI v Evropě. Město Kronstorf firmu zaujalo díky okolním zdrojům elektřiny – i tak by ale region pocítil vysoký odběr, který se s projektem pojí. Může totiž dosáhnout maximálního okamžitého výkonu až 500 megawattů. Proč se toho místní obávají? „Potřebujete rovnou jeden reaktor z Dukovan, aby to dokázal napájet,“ vysvětluje pro iROZHLAS.cz analytik Tomáš Protivínský.
Sun, 23 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post11:00
While China’s new “AI tigers” have captured global attention for challenging Silicon Valley front-runners, a quieter wave of domestic technology companies is building in-house artificial intelligence systems serving everyday users. Beyond pure-play AI labs like DeepSeek, Z.ai (also known as Zhipu AI), Moonshot AI and MiniMax, consumer-facing platforms that span e-commerce, video gaming, social media and travel are developing foundation models tailored to their own business ecosystems, in...
Tue, 25 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post10:30
The usage of open-weight AI models from China hit a record high on a popular US web development platform, driven largely by DeepSeek’s latest lightweight model, as business demand for Anthropic’s cutting-edge Fable 5 stalls due to high costs. Open-weight models accounted for 54 per cent of token volume on Vercel’s AI Gateway on Tuesday, surpassing the 46 per cent consumed by proprietary models, according to data on its website. Open models reached a record share of 62 per cent on the platform...
Wed, 26 August 2026
2 reports- South China Morning Post05:01
DeepSeek is nearing the completion of a new funding round valuing the company at about 500 billion yuan (US$74 billion) before investment, as the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up moves closer to a potential listing on Shanghai’s Star Market, according to people familiar with the matter. The company was seeking to raise about 50 billion yuan in the round, which was expected to close before the end of August, according to one person. Investors included incumbents from the company’s last...
- Japan Times08:58
Beijing's strategy sees much of the digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence development across China's eastern seaboard established in the less-populated, rural west.
Thu, 27 August 2026
3 reports- South China Morning Post08:30
China’s Zhipu AI has launched its latest open-weight model, GLM-5.3-Flash – previously code-named Ox Alpha – saying that the system ran entirely on a cluster of 100,000 domestically produced chips during a high-profile stealth trial. The announcement followed a week of heavy traffic on artificial intelligence model marketplace OpenRouter and agent platform OpenCode, where the model processed 62 trillion tokens before its formal release on Wednesday, according to Zhipu. On OpenRouter, the...
- South China Morning Post10:36
Free courses coordinated by the Hong Kong government will leverage the expertise of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft to help boost the adoption of AI by businesses for content creation, data analysis and workflow efficiency. The Hong Kong Productivity Council on Thursday announced the launch of the programme targeting industries such as education, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and logistics as part of the government’s HK$50 million (US$6.38 million) “AI for All”...
- South China Morning Post13:00
Alibaba Group Holding has launched its first data centres in South America, as the Chinese technology giant ramps up its artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout in emerging markets amid an intensifying US-China AI rivalry. The Hangzhou-based company announced on Thursday that its new Brazilian venture would operate two data centres offering local enterprises secure cloud infrastructure and a suite of “agentic AI services”. “Brazil is one of the world’s most dynamic digital economies...
Sat, 29 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post06:00
Chinese artificial intelligence companies are carving out a distinct lead over their US rivals in video generation, leveraging vast short-video ecosystems, looser copyright rules and aggressive pricing to dominate an arena where compute alone does not dictate success, analysts say. While US tech giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lead in frontier closed-source large language models (LLMs), Chinese firms are emerging as some of the most formidable competitors in the AI video...
Sun, 30 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post08:00
Drinks, music, vibes … what else can a bar offer to attract customers? One in China’s capital, Beijing, is betting on unlimited access to artificial intelligence models. The AGI Bar in the Zhongguancun tech hub, known as China’s Silicon Valley, was packed with laptop-using customers on a recent night. One of the first things many did after ordering a drink was to connect to the in-house Wi-fi and configure an AI agent to access the free tokens the bar provides. Manager Yang Yuan said the bar,...
Mon, 31 August 2026
3 reports- bjreview.com06:00
- South China Morning Post06:30
China’s home-grown artificial intelligence chipmakers are starting to cash in on Beijing’s self-reliance drive, but a fresh wave of first-half earnings reveals a stark divide between the industry’s rising profit stars and loss-making players. Shares of Chinese AI chipmakers traded mixed on Monday as investors digested the financial updates. MetaX Integrated Circuits saw its Shanghai-listed stock rise 2.4 per cent to 691.2 yuan on Monday after reporting a swing to profitability late on Sunday....
- dealstreetasia.com20:44
Enflame is China's latest AI chipmaker to go public.
Tue, 1 September 2026
4 reports- South China Morning Post09:00
Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city home to US-sanctioned telecoms giant Huawei Technologies and drone maker DJI, has seen an influx of investors and business leaders amid rising global interest in Chinese artificial intelligence and robotics. On Tuesday, the tech hub hosted investor conferences led by three international financial institutions – HSBC, UBS and Nomura – with AI, robotics and other emerging technologies featuring prominently on their agendas. More investors could arrive to...
- yahoo.com13:33
Customers are already using the new system. What’s coming in 2027 is far bigger.
- telecompaper.com14:18
NTT Data has announced plans to launch the NTT Data AI Factory Lab in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Opening in September, the facility will combine NTT Data's full-stack AI services with technologies from ecosystem partners such as Cisco and Nvidia. The aim is to help organisations scale AI with confidence. The lab will offer executive briefings and strategy workshops.
- taipeitimes.com16:00
The Ministry of Digital Affairs has launched a build-own-operate project to encourage private investment in data centers, with the goal of adding more than 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) of computing capacity within a year, Minister of Digital Affairs Lin Yi-jing (林宜敬) said yesterday.Lin ma
Wed, 2 September 2026
8 reports- South China Morning Post00:30
As Enflame Technology gears up for a 6.12 billion yuan (US$910.3 million) initial public offering on Shanghai’s Star Market, the Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker must convince investors that its specialised chip strategy can withstand fierce competition from Huawei Technologies and other domestic rivals, while reducing its heavy revenue dependence on major backer Tencent Holdings. Online and offline subscriptions open on Wednesday, after the Shanghai-based start-up announced on...
- South China Morning Post00:30
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is partnering with tech giants to offer on-site artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories at its expanded Shanghai campus, which welcomed more than 300 students for the new term earlier this week. The campus in Zhangjiang Science City is also expected to expand its intake next year, when the university’s medicine and engineering programmes launch there. Its computing and data science school opened a base in Shanghai in mid-January. The university signed...
- South China Morning Post05:57edited after publishing
Tencent Holdings’ use of its vast product ecosystem to train its new Hy4 preview model gives it an edge in developing AI agents and brings its flagship model suite back into the top tier of open-source offerings, according to analysts. The Chinese tech giant’s “differentiated product-plus-model strategy”, where preview models were first deployed across Tencent’s suite of products, enabled it to collect user data before feeding the information back into subsequent rounds of training, Goldman...
- South China Morning Post09:30
Major Chinese foundry Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor is pouring US$2 billion into a massive capacity expansion in the Chinese chip production hub of Wuxi, racing to meet skyrocketing domestic demand for AI infrastructure and bypass US tech curbs. The fresh capital would fund the construction of a new 12-inch speciality line, its third facility in the eastern Chinese city, the country’s second-largest contract chipmaker said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday. Once fully...
- Novinky (Czechia)10:31
V kopcovité čínské provincii Kuej-čou stojí komplex budov v evropském stylu s hodinovou věží a mostem s několika oblouky. Z areálu se ozývá nepřetržité tlumené hučení, které prozrazuje jeho skutečný účel – je to největší datové centrum technologického giganta Huawei.
- nikkei.com11:24
Azure hardware chief Borkar calls for innovation to relieve limited components
- nikkei.com12:40
AI-driven data center demand props up sales while US tariffs take toll
- globaltimes.cn15:45
Chinese artificial intelligence company (AI) Zhipu AI opened an official flagship store on Tmall on Wednesday to sell its GLM Coding Plan subscriptions, marking a fresh effort to bring AI model services beyond developer platforms and into China’s mainstream consumer marketplace, as AI adoption continues to accelerate across the country.
Thu, 3 September 2026
5 reports- South China Morning Post06:17edited after publishing
Enflame Technology, one of China’s leading AI chipmakers, has sparked a retail frenzy for its 6.12 billion yuan (US$910.9 million) initial public offering in Shanghai’s tech-heavy Star Market, underscoring growing investor appetite for home-grown alternatives to Nvidia. The Tencent Holdings-backed chipmaker saw the retail portion of its IPO oversubscribed by 4,073 times, with about 7 million online investors alone submitting orders for 42.1 billion shares, according to its filing to the...
- South China Morning Post10:38
When two of China’s leading AI pioneers went public in Hong Kong in January, they pitched investors on a shared promise: capturing the explosive demand for artificial intelligence at home and abroad. Their first-half earnings, however, suggest that narrative could be splintering into two different trajectories. While Beijing-based Z.ai, also known as Zhipu AI, is winning over market analysts on the back of surging revenue and top-tier model performance, its Shanghai rival MiniMax is facing...
- manilatimes.net16:42
Uniting accelerated computing, simulation-validated deployment and AI governance into one continuous AI factory platform
- manilatimes.net16:42
ASUS Expands AI Infrastructure Ecosystem from Cloud to Edge
- Japan Times23:00
There are now nearly 1,000 large-language models on offer in China.
Fri, 4 September 2026
2 reports- Times of India08:31edited after publishing
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From grasslands to GPUs: Why China is building its AI engine in Inner MongoliaChina's surge in artificial intelligence innovations is driving a remarkable expansion of its computing infrastructure. Ulanqab, located in Inner Mongolia, is positioning itself as a pivotal hub for AI computing, capitalizing on its vast renewable energy resources and favorable climate for data centers. This enhanced computing capability is fulfilling the increasing AI requirements of the nation.
- tradearabia.com13:00
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack AI solutions, today announced that AMD Instinct MI355X GPU-based AI infrastructure built on Cisco Silicon One-based AI networking is now live in Saudi Arabia and serving HUMAIN customers in the Kingdom and beyond