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DeepSeek

DeepSeek reset the industry’s assumptions about what a frontier-class model has to cost. Its influence is less about any one release than about the permission it gave everyone else to optimise instead of scale.

Recent coverage

• Anthropic says Chinese AI developers secretly used Claude to serve users — State-backed competitors appear to be harvesting Claude's capabilities through illicit access rather than building their own systems. (2026-09-11)
• Anthropic details distillation attacks from Alibaba, Moonshot AI and DeepSeek — The escalation underscores the intensifying technical arms race between Western frontier labs and China's AI development. (2026-09-10)