The Number
- DeepSeek lists deepseek-flash at $0.0115/MTok prompt, the cheapest China-lab prompt price on OpenRouter as of 2026-10-28.
- Qwen3.8-Max holds a 12元/M input list price on DashScope as of 2026-10-28, with Batch calls at half that.
- Moonshot sets its 2026-10-31 cutoff to stop new signups for the K2 series, with full retirement planned by end-December, per its pricing docs 2026-10-28.
Top of the Fold
- Ant's Bailing lab open-sources Ling-3.1-flash-1019 as it pushes its Lingguang agent from chat toward real task execution, per 量子位.
- Ant ships Lingguang 2.0, wiring the agent into Alipay, DingTalk, Feishu and Mijia rather than cloning Microsoft's Muse wholesale, per 智东西.
- Shenzhen's DiffuSpace open-sources Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, a diffusion-language MoE it says tops same-class autoregressive peers on six agentic-coding benchmarks, company-stated, per 智东西.
Untranslated
- Tsinghua assistant professor Chen Yongchao's Chaoyan drops Apex-35B-V1.0, a self-improving RSI model, after raising nearly 400M yuan in under six months from IDG and three city state funds, per 虎嗅.
- Z Finance maps the hidden power layer of Chinese AI data chiefs, with one-year-old synthetic-data startup UniPat AI said to be closing ~$300M at a $2.5B valuation led by Alibaba, circulating/unconfirmed, per 虎嗅.
- ByteDance's Doubao PR lead Liu Xing calls the claim that Hengdian fed 150,000 extras' likenesses and voices into ByteDance's model 'seriously false,' saying Volcano Engine is only a tech vendor on a film-industry dataset project, per 雷峰网.
- Alibaba and SJTU release CutCraft, a six-dimension benchmark testing whether models can follow video-editing instructions, tested across 13 models, preprint, per PaperWeekly.
The Backstory
- SenseTime refugee Liu Ru, who finished his CUHK PhD in June 2022 just as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT landed, surfaces on Huawei's stage pushing assistants past the chat box toward proactive service, a career built on arriving at the exact wrong-then-right moment, per 雷峰网.
The Kicker
- 红果 short-drama, whose average user now watches 151 minutes a day per QuestMobile, is adding bedtime nudges where in-show characters tell late-night bingers to go to sleep, per 虎嗅.
