"AI performance increases in proportion to the money you pay." That common wisdom is wavering once again.On October 17, 2026 (local time), Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its new model, "DeepSeek-V4.

That pressure has grown thanks to the proliferation of powerful open-source models from China which are drastically cheaper to both train and run. And now DeepSeek—the Hangzhou-based startup that badly rattled Silicon Valley early last year with the release of its R1 model—is tightening the thumbscrews on OpenAI and Anthropic even more by making its in-house inference tool freely available on GitHub.

DeepSeek is opening up the software it uses to run its artificial intelligence models at scale, potentially making its technology cheaper and easier for businesses to run.

This time, we have three stories: an acquisition to help with drug development logistics, DeepSeek's released software, and Anthropic's public interest fund.OpenAI helps not just with drug research, b

The decision comes a couple of days after the release of the company’s latest AI model.

The release of DeepInfer comes as enterprises seek to cut AI inference costs, with many AI models now powering AI agents that require large numbers of tokens, a cost that can be prohibitive.. However, the vendor’s move to open up the inference framework could help its enterprise customers limit those expenses.