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English briefs on Chinese AI models, API prices, policy and companies, with original Chinese sources and context for readers outside China.
DeepSeek DeepInfer, open-sourced: the engine behind 155 trillion tokens a day — and the unit economics DeepSeek just published with it
Three days after open-sourcing the model, DeepSeek open-sourced the machine that serves it: a production inference engine under Apache 2.0, serving economics no other lab publishes — 155 trillion tokens a day from one cluster, US$38 revenue per card-hour — and a hardware list that names NVIDIA and Huawei in the same breath.
Latest public sample · Oct 20, 2026
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017: On par with Opus 5 is half true — the half that's 90% cheaper
One release, three moves — a 763B MIT-licensed coding model shipped same-day as open weights, a self-built search layer priced like a utility
AIGC Weekly — China AI #1: DeepSeek’s Reported $12B Round
Vidu’s video preview, Manus’s $500M+ raise, and Ecosia’s open-model plans.
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AIGC Newsletter is for developers building with Chinese models, investors following Chinese labs, and teams tracking competitors. Each brief connects a change to its original evidence, its limits, and the decision it affects outside China.
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