The Number
- DeepSeek-flash sits at $0.15/M input cache-miss off-peak, with cache-hit down to $0.003/M, per DeepSeek's pricing docs as of 2026-09-25.
- Qwen3-max runs 2.5 yuan/M input at the 0-32K tier, its cheapest max variant, per Alibaba DashScope pricing as of 2026-09-25.
- Z-ai's GLM-5.2 and Qwen3.8-27b both list at $0/M free tiers on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-25.
Top of the Fold
- Moonshot ships Kimi K3 as its new flagship with a dedicated pricing tier, moving past K2.7 Code and K2.6, per its platform pricing docs.
- Alibaba's 千问办公 unveils an office hardware line, a 1,199-yuan QwenNote A2 agent device and an 899-yuan desktop robot Eva, folding agents into physical endpoints, per 智东西.
- Two Huawei large-model leads leave to start a company chasing a physical-world scaling law, per 量子位.
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- Netease Youdao's open R2T2 streaming ASR and T3PO translation models top both Hugging Face trending boards five days after release, pushing Whisper-large-v3 to sixth, per 新智元 (company-framed, verify at the primary).
- Alibaba's 平头哥 pairs its top-end AI chip with an open-source release, shifting from shipping silicon to open co-build, per 量子位.
- Kimi steps away from the coding race to push a browser plug-in that turns web actions into one-tap skills, per 量子位.
- Otherwise quiet across the Chinese community overnight.
The Backstory
- 雷峰网 walks through the 11 papers 梁文锋 has co-signed over three years, tracing DeepSeek's founder through the technical record rather than the founding myth, per 雷峰网.
The Kicker
- A self-play football robot logged 140 years of simulated matches to become what 量子位 calls a Messi-finisher, per 量子位.
