The Number
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro (0813) lists at $0.435/M input (cache miss) and $0.87/M output, ahead of the August 16 shift to peak/off-peak billing, per DeepSeek's pricing docs.
- Qwen3.8-max sits at #9 on Arena's overall preference board (Elo 1491), the top-ranked Chinese entry, as of Aug 13, per LMArena.
- kimi-k3-max holds #2 on Arena's coding preference board (Elo 1674), second only to claude-opus-5-max, as of Aug 13, per LMArena.
- Lenovo posted Q1 revenue of 183.4B yuan, up 43% year over year, its best quarter on record, with AI-related revenue up 60%, per its earnings release.
Top of the Fold
- DeepSeek pushes the V4-Pro-0813 formal release to its API with Responses API and Codex support, closing the 111-day gap from the April preview and folding in the agent work everyone waited for, per DeepSeek's docs and GeekPark.
- DeepSeek opens a public preview of DeepSeek Harness, its own agent framework, whose GitHub repo cleared 30,000 stars, landing two hours after the V4-Pro price-hike notice, per 智东西.
- Alibaba open-sources the 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B MoE, with Day-0 deployment already validated across nine domestic and foreign chip lines via 智源 FlagOS, per 雷峰网.
- Tencent reports Q2 revenue of 204.8B yuan and 52.8B yuan of capex, with Ma Huateng pledging an AI-rebuilt Tencent, per its earnings release and 虎嗅.
Untranslated
- DeepSeek Harness deliberately skipped the community's expected Pi Agent architecture, and some developers argue it reads as a development framework rather than a Coding Agent, per 智东西.
- Leaked candidate projects behind DeepSeek Harness suggest the team is chasing agent infrastructure over star-count showpieces, per 雷峰网, circulating and unconfirmed.
- 新智元 reports a Peking Union Medical intern claims to have cracked the 22-year-old Crouzeix conjecture using GPT 5.6 over a 16-hour autonomous run, circulating and unconfirmed; treat as reaction, not result.
- An on-device agent chip startup raised $480M with its first AI chip already in mass production, per 量子位.
The Backstory
- DeepSeek's Harness team lead Cui Tianyi framed the v0.1 preview publicly as rough and asking for feedback, a rare open-door posture from a lab that usually ships in silence, per 智东西.
The Kicker
- Hangzhou unveiled what it billed as the world's first standing-posture manned flying vehicle, per 量子位.
