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2025-11-12

Weibo's new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.

Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open source VibeThinker-1.5B—a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is a fine-tuned variant of rival Chinese tech firm Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B.

It's available now for free download and usage by researchers and enterprise developers—even for commercial purposes—under a permissive MIT License on Hugging Face, GitHub and Discover Copy

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2025-12-01

DeepSeek just dropped two insanely powerful AI models that rival GPT-5 and they're totally free

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini- [...]

Match Score: 339.29

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2025-10-21

DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large l [...]

Match Score: 303.55

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2025-09-29

DeepSeek's new V3.2-Exp model cuts API pricing in half to less than 3 cents per 1M input tokens

DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI...in this case, in terms of affordability.The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that [...]

Match Score: 224.12

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2025-11-10

Baseten takes on hyperscalers with new AI training platform that lets you own your model weights

Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean [...]

Match Score: 205.94

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2025-11-28

What to be thankful for in AI in 2025

Hello, dear readers. Happy belated Thanksgiving and Black Friday!This year has felt like living inside a permanent DevDay. Every week, some lab drops a new model, a new agent framework, or a new “th [...]

Match Score: 198.33

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2025-12-02

Arcee aims to reboot U.S. open source AI with new Trinity models released under Apache 2.0

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou.Chinese research labs including Alibaba's Qwen, [...]

Match Score: 126.21

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2025-11-24

DeepSeek injects 50% more security bugs when prompted with Chinese political triggers

China's DeepSeek-R1 LLM generates up to 50% more insecure code when prompted with politically sensitive inputs such as "Falun Gong," "Uyghurs," or "Tibet," according [...]

Match Score: 119.62

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2025-11-12

Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini

Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several visio [...]

Match Score: 116.19

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2025-11-06

Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI, outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has e [...]

Match Score: 112.82