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Bloomberg reports DeepSeek has paused its second fundraising round; Reuters previously reported a potential IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market. The pause may affect IPO plans.
- DeepSeek
- IPO
- fundraising
The author shares how they drastically reduced Claude and Codex API costs by optimizing call strategies, using caching, and batching.
- Claude
- codex
- cost saving
- Discussion
24 hours with Fable 5 vs Opus 5: both excellent, but very different personalities
Published Jul 25, 2026A developer shares hands-on experience after ~24 hours of coding with Fable 5 and Opus 5: code quality is top-notch, but Fable 5 excels at open-ended prompts and pushes back when needed, while Opus 5 tends to follow instructions even when a better path exists.
- Claude
- coding
- comparison
- Fable 5
- Opus 5
Google clarifies that Gemma 4 models have been downloaded over 300M times, and the entire Gemma open model series has surpassed 900M downloads, highlighting the popularity of the open ecosystem.
- Gemma
- Gemma 4
- downloads
- News
First in-depth interview with Sam Altman: From startups to singularity, behind OpenAI
Published Jul 25, 2026The interview covers startup methods, trusting exponentials, operating in chaotic environments, creating abundant intelligence, AI authoritarianism vs liberty, life after ChatGPT launch, Codex growth, shutting down Sora to focus on Codex, and more.
- AI
- OpenAI
- Startup
- interview
- Sam Altman
User found solar panel malfunction, company quoted minimum $500 visit. Following Grok's step-by-step guidance, they checked wiring and reconfigured the system, got it working again, saving over a year of Grok subscription cost.
- Grok
- troubleshooting
- cost saving
- DIY
- solar panel
One observer notes that Google is uniquely indifferent to which layer of the AI stack wins value. With market share in infrastructure (TPUs, Cloud), models (Gemini), and applications (G Suite, Waymo, YouTube), Google stands to win regardless.
- Gemini
- strategy
- AI stack
- TPU
- cloud
- Tutorial
Codex is fully open source! Audit your prompt and run any open weights model
Published Jul 25, 2026Periodic reminder: Codex is a fully open source harness. You can audit exactly what happens to your prompt, and if you want, run any open weights model with it.
- codex
- open-source
- prompt
- Harness
- open weights
After a transcript of founder Liang Wenfeng's comments to investors leaked online, DeepSeek has indefinitely paused its second fundraising round.
- DeepSeek
- fundraising
- leak
DeepSeek has reportedly told prospective investors it is pausing plans for a second fundraising round.
- DeepSeek
- fundraising