DeepSeek
10 published articles
AI Agents · Open Source
DeepSeek ships an agent harness where even the model is a plugin
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent runtime where models, tools, sandboxes, and the UI are all Cordis plugins. Append-only session logs and a two-tool minimal mode point to a quieter ambition: auditable, reproducible agent runs.
2026-08-16
AI Economics
Alibaba's $18 plan runs Qwen and DeepSeek inside Claude Code
Alibaba Cloud's Token Plan Individual bundles Qwen and third-party models such as DeepSeek into a single credit pool, from $6 a month, usable inside Claude Code and Cursor. The company claims roughly 40% savings over pay-as-you-go, but the plan only works from Singapore and only inside approved tools.
2026-08-14
China's AI pricing war, receipts pending
Zhipu's viral $0.07 GLM-5.2 price already 10x'd, one reply claims
Zhipu's GLM-5.2 went viral at $0.07 per million tokens, a 95% cut posters called "almost free." One reply says the price rebounded 10x as a stunt for eyeballs. Practitioners add that GLM-5.2 never tested as frontier-grade.
2026-08-10
AI Research
The monitor that goes silent when AI reasoning fails
Novelis Research shows token log-probability fails as a decoder monitor for quantized reasoning models, being blind to confident loops. They introduce a calibrated e-CUSUM controller that combines uncertainty and repetition signals, achieving selectivity on GSM8K with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B.
2026-08-03
Analysis
Benchmarks, not bargains: China's AI labs reach parity
Chinese AI labs Qwen, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Kimi have matched or beaten US frontier models in reasoning, coding, and document parsing benchmarks. With aggressive pricing and open-weight strategies, they are no longer just cheap alternatives, they are real competitors.
2026-07-27
AI Leadership
America's AI moat is draining and the East is turning the valve
Open-source models from the East are eroding the US advantage in AI, forcing a strategic reckoning. From DeepSeek to Sakana, the ecosystem is rewriting the rules.
2026-07-27
Systems optimization
DeepSeek just proved most AI inference speed tricks are working against each other
DeepSeek's DSpark paper reveals that naive speculative decoding degrades throughput under high concurrency. Its solution, confidence-scheduled verification, adapts block length per request and shifts the Pareto frontier of serving performance.
2026-07-12
Artificial Intelligence
DeepSeek-OCR 2 Brings Visual Causal Flow to Open-Source Document Understanding
DeepSeek-OCR 2 introduces Visual Causal Flow for human-like visual encoding. Now open-source on GitHub, the model supports vLLM and Transformers, dynamic resolution (up to 1,216 visual tokens), and document-to-markdown conversion.
2026-07-09
API economics
DeepSeek V4 drops in July with a pricing shift that will hurt if you code when the sun is up
DeepSeek V4 arrives mid-July with peak-load pricing. The API costs double during business hours, up to $1.74 per million output tokens, but off-peak rates can be a steal for cache-hit workloads.
2026-07-09
Artificial Intelligence
DeepSeek's new model makes efficiency the AI arms race front line
DeepSeek has released a new LLM that sharpens its competition with major AI labs by betting on efficiency over brute force. The model aims to offer strong performance with optimized resource usage, reflecting a broader industry pivot toward cost-effective AI.
2026-06-30