The Number
- DeepSeek now routes deepseek-flash to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, listed at $0.02/MTok prompt on OpenRouter as of 2026-10-26, the cheapest China-lab prompt tier there.
- Qwen3.8-Max holds at ¥12/MTok input, ¥36/MTok output on Alibaba's DashScope as of 2026-10-26, with Batch calls at half rate.
- 趋境科技 (Approaching.AI) closed a B round over ¥1.3B, lifting its 2026 total to ¥2.4B, per 智东西.
Top of the Fold
- Kimi ships K3.1 Pro overnight on 程序员节, adding a 2-3x Highspeed variant and pricing it to challenge Opus 5.5, with full weights promised by Nov 4, per 极客公园.
- 网易智企 releases CodeWave SDD, an all-Agent delivery product it says lifts enterprise output 3-5x, pushing coding tools from assistants toward autonomous teams, per 智东西.
- 即梦 opens a 短剧工作室 built on its DreamScript script model, folding scripting, storyboarding and video into one platform as the short-drama tooling race heats up, per 雷峰网.
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- DeepSeek open-sources its full DeepInfer inference framework, after FlashMLA hand-tuned to 90%+ of hardware limits, and the same week AI-written ForgeKernel topped both NVIDIA SOL-ExecBench and Ascend CANN operator boards as of Oct 22, per 雷峰网 (company-stated benchmarks, verify).
- Tencent's 绿泡泡 短剧 mini-program crossed 143M MAU by August and hit 89.68M weekly actives in October's first week, up 44.1% month-on-month, per QuestMobile data cited by 雷峰网.
- 启元机器人 rolls its 5,000th personal robot off the line a month after launch, at a claimed 2.5 minutes per unit, a physical-AI scale signal per 智东西 (company-stated, verify).
- 夕小瑶科技说 flags a quant startup running 10,000 concurrent Agents burning up to 1T tokens a day, as Chinese practitioners trade tricks for managing multi-Agent overload, circulating per 夕小瑶科技说 (unverified).
The Backstory
- On 程序员节, Beijing coders cleared out old manuals on 小红书 under a "古法编程时代" tag, 《图解HTTP》 going for ¥3 and 《人月神话》 the priciest book left, as one firm joked it now counts anyone who can direct AI as a programmer, per 极客公园.
The Kicker
- 影石 handed its best engineers gold keycaps for a fifth year, adding an F5 key for endless iteration, after a young staffer quipped this year's should go to the AI, per 极客公园.
