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Today10/17Sat
  1. The Decoder75

    China proposes export controls on open-weight models and 23 key AI technologies

    China's commerce and science ministries released draft export restrictions targeting 23 key AI technologies, including large models, agents, compute clusters, and data processing. Controls on core model technologies would apply at 10^26 FLOPs of training compute, at least 2 trillion parameters, or global top-10 status, with separate restrictions covering models trained on China's important data. Open-source publication would qualify for automatic licensing, while installation on local servers abroad would require a standard export license; API access would remain exempt.

10/16Fri
  1. 雷锋网16

    DeepSeek will refund users after a service outage, with some receiving over 3,000 yuan

    DeepSeek apologized for an API outage on October 15 and said it would return users’ API spending from October 8–14 as account credits. Users shared refunds ranging from a few cents to more than 3,000 yuan, depending on their usage. The company did not explain the outage’s cause; the report says the platform had experienced at least 18 widespread service disruptions so far this year.

10/15Thu
  1. 雷锋网56

    Why Some AI Infrastructure Engineers Command Annual Compensation of 8 Million Yuan

    Leiphone reports that some AI infrastructure specialists can command annual compensation of 7–8 million yuan as model companies seek lower computing costs. Interviewees identify inference optimization, model quantization, and kernel development as premium skills, while routine framework deployment attracts smaller rewards. StartLux co-founder and CTO Guo Quanwei estimates that only 5%–10% of AI infrastructure workers receive substantial premiums, challenging the impression that salary doubling is widespread.

  2. 量子位30

    DeepSeek’s Web Service and APIs Suffer an Outage as DeepSeekHarness Appears on Bilibili

    DeepSeek reported partial outages affecting its chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API; it said the cause had been identified and repairs were underway. The incident began at 8:11 a.m. Beijing time and had lasted about an hour in the latest update. Around the same time, a new DeepSeekHarness account appeared on Bilibili, but there is no official evidence linking it to the outage or a model release.

10/14Wed
10/13Tue
  1. 量子位52

    DeepSeek reportedly plans to lead Winverse AI’s seed round

    DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round worth tens of millions of dollars for robotics AI startup Winverse AI, according to Bloomberg, at a post-money valuation of about $400 million. Founded in 2026 by Swin Transformer coauthor and former Tencent scientist Han Hu, Winverse AI remains in early research and development without publicly disclosed products or a specific technical roadmap. The proposed deal follows DeepSeek’s approximately RMB 141 million investment in Unitree in August.

10/8Thu
10/6Tue
  1. The Decoder78

    CATL and Tencent lead new DeepSeek funding round as company plans early 2027 IPO

    Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek is nearing completion of a new funding round of at least $12 billion. The initial target was about $7.5 billion at a valuation of about $75 billion, but people familiar with the matter say the total could approach $15 billion. CATL and Tencent are the largest contributors.

    Why it matters: The funding amount, investors, and IPO timeline together offer a view of DeepSeek's financing for its compute and open-source strategy.

10/3Sat
9/30Wed
  1. The Decoder70

    DeepSeek and Huawei release open-source programming tools for Ascend chips

    DeepSeek and Huawei partnered to build programming tools for Huawei Ascend chips and open-sourced them. The core is TileLang, a programming language originating with Peking University researchers. DeepSeek says its programming model is simpler than CUDA and that it has used TileLang for about a year as a main tool in its AGI work.

  3. 量子位74

    DeepSeek open-sources Ascend foundation components to build an AI chip software ecosystem with Huawei

    On September 30, DeepSeek open-sourced foundational components for Huawei's Ascend compute platform, including the TileLang high-level language compiler, high-performance computing libraries, and distributed communication libraries. They correspond to components previously open-sourced for GPU platforms.

  5. The Verge · AI44

    U.S. Representative Ro Khanna asks DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI about superintelligence and RSI safeguards

    Ro Khanna, the lead Democrat on the U.S. House Select Committee on China, wrote to DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI seeking records about their pursuit of “superintelligence” and recursive self-improvement (RSI), and asking whether they have safeguards and “kill switches” or accept audits by non-governmental organizations. He also wrote to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, seeking an assessment of the U.S. ability to respond to out-of-control AI labs and of China’s approach to catastrophic AI risk. The goal is to advance a U.S.-China treaty banning RSI.

9/17Thu
9/15Tue