<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>DeepSeek on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/deepseek/</link><description>Recent content in DeepSeek on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:00:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/deepseek/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Google's Gemini 4 Argon hits cybersecurity, Anthropic opens government AI</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-ai/</guid><description>Google rolled out Gemini 4 Argon, a $2‑per‑million‑token model aimed at cyber defenders, promising 40% faster quantum subroutines and 300 TiB of freed memory. SpaceXAI is re‑pricing Grok and X with a $100 Ultra tier, while Anthropic’s Claude for Government goes GA with FedRAMP High compliance and prepaid usage caps. DeepSeek ports its training stack to Huawei Ascend, OpenAI details its 700 W Jalapeño accelerator, and NVIDIA releases OpenShell for sandboxed AI agents. A flurry of research papers - mode‑hopping dynamics, the LIFT transformer, and SynthID Bio watermarking - round out the day.</description></item><item><title>OpenAI's $500 Pro Max, DeepSeek's $1B Run Rate, and TPU Megakernels Hit 700 TPS</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-25-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-25-ai/</guid><description>OpenAI is reportedly preparing a $500/month ChatGPT Pro Max tier, targeting heavy agentic and coding workloads with faster inference and longer sessions, timed ahead of DevDay on September 29. DeepSeek&amp;rsquo;s annualized revenue run rate has allegedly doubled to $1 billion after raising API prices 2.3 to 4.5 times, with developers staying put. In hardware, Inferact&amp;rsquo;s TPU v7 megakernels hit over 700 tokens/s on Kimi K3 with speculative decoding, beating NVIDIA&amp;rsquo;s GB200. Meta and Google both shipped real-time avatar systems, while Hugging Face&amp;rsquo;s CEO shared lessons from the first disclosed agent cyberattack. New benchmarks and research probe agent decision-making, hidden LLM self-models, and unreadable internal reasoning.</description></item><item><title>US startups swap OpenAI for Chinese models; Salesforce and Anthropic go all-in</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-founders/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:31:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-founders/</guid><description>US founders are routing real workloads to Chinese open-weight models after DeepSeek V4 Flash and Xiaomi&amp;rsquo;s MiMo V2.5 priced tokens at roughly a tenth of GPT-5.5. Salesforce and Anthropic formalised a Claudeforce deal that pushes Claude into every agent surface and ships 37 Salesforce skills into Claude itself, with Salesforce expecting about $300M in Anthropic token spend this year. SaaStr&amp;rsquo;s Jason Lemkin argues most B2B CEOs are only ~40% of the way through genuinely rebuilding for AI, citing a public-comp base where 34 of 58 SaaS names now grow between 10 and 30%. Cohere launched Parse, a vision-language document model at $1.50 per 1,000 pages. A YC investor study of 642 companies found priced-above-median startups reached Series A 25% of the time versus 8% for priced-below.</description></item><item><title>Hugging Face Explores $13B Sale as AI Pricing Wars Intensify</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:03:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-ai/</guid><description>Hugging Face is exploring a sale at a $13 billion valuation—nearly 3x its 2023 valuation—reflecting the strategic value of its model hub and developer ecosystem. DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental vision model that nearly matches Anthropic&amp;rsquo;s Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks while maintaining text-model pricing. Anthropic is making its strongest model, Claude Mythos 5, available for defensive security work without exposing direct model access, backed by a $35 million open-source security fund. OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing by over 20% for three months, deepening a price war that is reshaping corporate model spending as cheaper options like Anthropic&amp;rsquo;s Opus 5 now outpace flagship tiers in enterprise deployments.</description></item></channel></rss>