The Number
- DeepSeek lists deepseek-flash at $0.15/M cache-miss input off-peak, with peak hours doubling the rate, per its pricing docs as of 2026-10-14.
- Qwen3.8-max runs 12 yuan/M input and 36 yuan/M output in Beijing, half that on batch, per DashScope pricing as of 2026-10-14.
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash's cheapest OpenRouter listing sits at $0.0144/M prompt, the lowest of any China-lab model on the platform, on OpenRouter as of 2026-10-14.
Top of the Fold
- STEPX ships STEPX Neo, its first large-model-native agent phone, betting the handset itself becomes the agent rather than hosting one, per 量子位.
- Qwen Office opens invite testing on an e-commerce edition that wires a general agent into 生意参谋, 有赞 and 千牛 dashboards, aiming to be the first vertical enterprise-agent case that quantifies the lift, per 智东西.
- Tencent deep-merges 企业微信 and WorkBuddy so the agent enters the corporate contact list across 14M organizations, putting AI inside tools firms already use rather than a new platform, per 雷峰网.
- APUS open-sources Reflex Agent under MIT, built on a self-made decision model that claims infinite-context memory for long personal-agent tasks, company-stated, per 智东西.
Untranslated
- Shanghai AI Lab drops two papers, SHE and SafeEvolve, framing agent safety as a co-evolving process rather than a fixed guardrail, per PaperWeekly (preprint).
- MemSilicon tapes out what it calls the first high-density 1T4R 1Gb RRAM chip on a CMOS-compatible process, company-stated, per 量子位.
- 虎嗅 runs a dissent on the AI-coding panic sparked by an AI-decompiled Adobe clone, arguing the tragedy is not that software died but what it does to the craft, as one named view, per 虎嗅.
- Doubao Work adds one-click config import from ChatGPT, Claude Code and TraeWork, letting switchers carry over skills and session history, per 雷峰网.
The Backstory
- 虎嗅 traces CXMT president 曹堪宇's 10 October preview of a 4F² DRAM architecture and year-end DDR5 server memory, a single talk that it ties to SK Hynix falling 10% the next day, as one named view, per 虎嗅.
The Kicker
- 领克 went viral not for its software but for surviving a cliff-plunge crash, a reminder that car competition keeps circling back to the car, per 量子位.
