The Number
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash cache-miss input runs $0.15/M off-peak, half the $0.30/M peak rate, per DeepSeek's pricing docs as of 2026-09-27.
- China's daily token calls hit 500 trillion, 16x the year-ago figure, per 未尽研究 via 虎嗅 (2026-09-27).
- qwen3.8-27b lists at $0/M prompt and completion on OpenRouter, the cheapest China-lab entry there as of 2026-09-27.
Top of the Fold
- Alibaba folds QoderWork, 钉钉悟空 and Mulerun into a single 千问办公 unit, betting the enterprise-office entry matters more than raw model scores, per 极客公园.
- Moonshot marks Kimi K3 as its new flagship on the pricing docs, with cache-write billed by TTL tier, per platform.moonshot.cn (2026-09-27).
Untranslated
- An anonymous model codenamed 玉兔 took the OpenRouter daily-call top spot over the Mid-Autumn holiday while leading two coding boards, per 量子位; the OpenRouter placement is public, treat the identity as circulating/unconfirmed.
- A Tsinghua-linked quantum team raised into a reported 1 billion yuan valuation to rework model-training substrates with quantum methods, per 量子位 (2026-09-27); an early commercial claim, unverified independently.
- 思想钢印 argues China's app-first, webpage-poor internet is the structural reason no domestic AI agent has matched Muse's 2 million weekly prompts in North America, a named contrarian read, per 虎嗅 (2026-09-27).
The Backstory
- Anker's Amazon share fell to 46.37% of first-half revenue from 54.30% in 2024, tracing a deliberate multi-year pull away from the marketplace that built it, per 10倍速营销 via 虎嗅 (2026-09-27).
The Kicker
- 中科通量 showed a desktop SmarCo AI workstation running a RISC-V dataflow chip with 128GB unified memory, pitched to run a 70B model locally on your desk, per 雷峰网 (2026-09-27).
