Timeline
Opus 5 achieves 0% prompt injection success rate in 129 browser agent tests with Auto Mode enabled
Anthropic's Claude Code became a leading agentic coding tool
Launched Claude Lite, a cost-efficient AI model for everyday tasks
Launched Claude Opus 5 with a shift toward fewer rules and trusting model judgment
Released Claude Opus 5 with 1M token context, 128k output, claiming Fable-5-approaching intelligence at half the price
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, their newest Opus model, available in Claude Code
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
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Evidence (15 articles)
Anthropic Unveils Claude Lite, Targets Cost-Conscious Enterprise
Jul 24, 2026ClawRouter: Open-Source Tool Routes AI Requests to Cheapest Model in Under 1ms
Mar 21, 2026DeepSeek Raises $7B, Ends No-Funding Pledge, Doubles Staff
Jun 27, 2026DeepSeek Raises $6.9B at $48-55B Valuation, Opens to Outside Capital
Jun 4, 2026The AI Espionage Frontier: Anthropic Exposes Systematic Claude Data Extraction by Chinese AI Labs
Feb 23, 2026Claude Code Steganography Flagged Chinese Users; Anthropic Rolls Back
Jul 1, 2026AI Power Shift: How DeepSeek's Alleged Blackwell Chip Access Could Reshape Global AI Race
Feb 24, 2026AI Weekly: GPT-6 Rumors, DeepSeek V4 on Huawei, Anthropic Models, Qwen 3.6-Plus
Apr 5, 2026+ 7 more articles