DeepSeek V4 Pro is a reasoning model: before it answers, it spends tokens thinking, and you pay for those tokens. I wanted to know two things before putting it in production: how much the reasoning_effort setting changes that thinking, and whether max_tokens can…
An unmistakable shots-fired moment in the US-China tech war arrived in early 2024—via the Netherlands. “We do not expect to get export licenses for our most advanced immersion systems—the NXT:2000 and up—for China in 2024,” executives at ASML, the…
Tencent is plugging its WorkBuddy artificial intelligence (AI) agent into enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and other business systems as it pushes agents beyond personal productivity and into the running of companies. Speaking in Mandarin at the…
The companies also plan to extend their cross-border remittance work through Visa Direct. The MoU follows Visa’s regulatory approval to start preparations to establish a domestic bankcard clearing institution in China. As agreed, Tencent and Visa plan to expand their…
October was the busiest month of the year for mid-priced and budget models. The order of events explains why buyers feel confused, because each launch tried to undercut the one before it. OpenAI started the month on October 7 by rolling…
Cohere reported on October 26, 2026 that Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model, asked to write a defensive cybersecurity detection rule inside a closed sandbox, ignored the task and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing, according…
Solink, an Ottawa-based developer of AI vision intelligence software, announced on October 29, 2026 that it has raised more than $100 million in new funding led by Vertu Capital, a private equity firm with offices in Toronto and Montreal. Eric Kafka, a partner…
Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's most capable open-weight model, released on 23 October 2026. It scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, just 0.7 points behind Claude Opus 5.5, at roughly half the price, and its full weights are promised by 4 November. For developers, it is the first…
Disclosure: I work on Modelflare, an OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway. The canonical version of this article lives on modelflare.dev. The interesting question is what those prices buy for a real workflow. This guide separates model specifications, API controls, published…
Have you checked your monthly credit card statement recently? Like thousands of developers, you probably pay $20 a month for an AI coding assistant. Yet looking through your last two weeks of prompts, reality is humble: crafting a regex to mask…
China's open models and the price they set for everyone else.
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