Timeline
Released MobilePA-Bench, a stateful benchmark for mobile planner agents with 1,705 tasks and 212 tools
Alibaba's Qwen team introduced AVA-Encoder, mapping films to editable knowledge graphs with +20.7 reconstruction fidelity.
Announced Qwen 3.8
Deployed RecGPT-V3 on Taobao, achieving +3.97% GMV improvement and 52.4% cost reduction
Alibaba released RynnBrain 1.1 on Hugging Face with 2B, 9B, and 122B-A10B MoE models for robot manipulation.
Released Accio Work, autonomous AI agents for supply chain management
DeepSeek is in early talks for a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation.
Released DSpark speculative decoding framework
Began developing custom inference ASICs to cut GPU dependency
China's domestic AI chip budget share rises to 46%, driven by DeepSeek and Zhipu exploring custom silicon
Ecosystem
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DeepSeek
Evidence (8 articles)
DeepSeek Raises $7B, Ends No-Funding Pledge, Doubles Staff
Jun 27, 2026Claude Code Steganography Flagged Chinese Users; Anthropic Rolls Back
Jul 1, 2026AI Weekly: GPT-6 Rumors, DeepSeek V4 on Huawei, Anthropic Models, Qwen 3.6-Plus
Apr 5, 2026Trump Weighs Restrictions on US Firms Using Chinese AI Models
Jul 21, 2026DeepSeek Hits $45B Valuation in First VC Round, Led by China State Fund
May 6, 2026DeepSeek, Zhipu AI Build Custom Inference Chips to Cut GPU Dependency
Jul 8, 2026The AI benchmark gap has collapsed: top 10 labs now separated by just 44 Elo points
Jun 19, 2026DeepSeek V4 to Run on Huawei Ascend 950PR Chips, Sparking 20% Price Surge
Apr 3, 2026