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U.S. guards against Chinese robots, while Silicon Valley goes straight to Shenzhen to personally carry goods back
I just saw this report from The Information, and the scene is utterly surreal.
In April this year, a San Francisco investor flew to Shenzhen with a long procurement list, stuffed robots and parts into suitcases, and flew them back to the U.S. Some teams even bought Unitree robots outright, took them apart, shipped the parts back, and reassembled them themselves.
At the end of July, the U.S. restricted new-model foreign humanoid robots and robot dogs from entering the country on nat

Cloud providers can dumb down large models
Here’s another interesting one.
Model evaluation agency Artificial Analysis recently conducted a test: it set the scores of officially deployed models at 100%, then tested APIs for the same models provided by different cloud service providers.
The results were striking.
The worst-performing GLM-5.2 API endpoint retained only 52% of its capabilities. gpt-oss-120b fluctuated between 70% and 101%. DeepSeek V4 Pro was relatively stable, with all 9 providers ranging between 97% and 107%.
The main reason is that cloud providers need to control costs.
Runnin

China’s open source has won
At a closed-door meeting on August 4, the White House told companies including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic that open-weight models would not be included in the new AI safety review framework.
Chinese models such as Kimi K3 and DeepSeek therefore do not need to be submitted to the U.S. government for testing before release. At least for now, the U.S. will not use this framework to ban them.

DeepSeek restarts ¥50 billion financing round, pre-money valuation of ¥500 billion
Great news—the financing that was suddenly suspended after the quotation incident has resumed.
Caijing, citing multiple dealmakers, reported that DeepSeek has restarted its second financing round. The company plans to raise another ¥50 billion at a pre-money valuation of approximately ¥500 billion, with the goal of signing the agreements in late August. DeepSeek has not responded.
This financing round was launched no later than mid-July and was temporarily suspended at the end of July. After its restart, DeepSee

ChangXin is set to build another plant, and Micron shares fell 4.5% during trading
This morning I saw a pretty encouraging piece of news.
ChangXin Storage is considering building its second 12-inch DRAM wafer fab in Beijing Yizhuang. It is currently in talks with local government platforms and state-owned enterprises about financing. ChangXin currently has three DRAM fabs: two in Hefei and one in Beijing, with each plant’s monthly production capacity at roughly 100k wafers. Taking into account the new projects in Shanghai, Hefei, and Beijing, once they are fully operational, total monthly prod

Just came across this thing called Threehalves, a disaster-relief robot made by the US robotics company Satyress.
The official job assigned to it is to go into places humans can’t easily get close to, such as wildfires, rubble, and toxic factories—moving items, clearing obstacles, and operating equipment. It currently relies mainly on people controlling it remotely.
Who would believe this thing is here to save people??
A black body about two meters tall, with four long, thin mechanical legs. The upper body is human, but the head is a goat head with no expression, and the eyes are still just tw

Qwen3.8 Max is 20 times more expensive than DeepSeek V4 Flash
Alibaba has released the official version of Qwen3.8-Max. This is a multimodal flagship model with 2.4T parameters, aimed at programming Agents, professional office work, and long tasks, and its API is already live.
Qwen3.8-Max may be a good model, but judging by the price, it’s a full 20 times more expensive than DeepSeek V4 Flash.
Across four tests—TerminalBench 2.1, DeepSWE 1.1, NL2Repo, and Toolathlon Verified—Qwen3.8-Max scores 1.7 to 3.9 points higher than DeepSeek-V4-Flash. This performance gap absolutely cannot justify a

I felt psychologically uncomfortable for several days after watching *Devotion*.
When I saw my colleague complaining about it, I became more easygoing right away.

The day before yesterday I wrote about deepseek, and yesterday I wrote about kimi—both articles were completely deleted.
Now are domestic language models not allowed to be mentioned? And they didn’t even say anything bad—are we not allowed to praise them either?

Liang Wenfeng halted DeepSeek’s second round of fundraising after being unhappy about the contents of a closed-door meeting leaking out.
Now what will those bro-s who sell SPVs do?