DeepSeek
Open weights are a weapon now — one country funds them, another wants to gate them
DeepSeek closed a ~$7.4B round with China's state AI fund holding the only voting rights, funding open weights like national infrastructure. The same week, Demis Hassabis called for a FINRA-style body to screen frontier models before release, open or closed. Plus: the twist where the country bankrolling the giveaway floats locking down its own frontier models.
China May Restrict Its AI Exports — Your Local Models Don't Care
China's commerce ministry met Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai about walling off top AI models. The US did the same in June. The weights on your disk don't care.
DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Pro: Verdict, Cost, Setup (2026)
Flash or Pro? Which DeepSeek V4 to run, what each costs (Haiku-tier pricing), and how to deploy locally. The verdict, the tradeoffs, no launch recap.
DeepSeek V4: Everything We Know Before It Drops
DeepSeek V4 launches next week with native image and video generation, 1M context, and rumored 1T MoE params with only 32B active. Here's what local AI builders need to know and how to prepare.
MoE Models Explained: Why Mixtral Uses 46B Parameters But Runs Like 13B
Mixture of Experts explained for local AI — why MoE models run fast but still need full VRAM. Mixtral, DeepSeek V3, DBRX compared with dense model alternatives.
Llama 4 vs Qwen3 vs DeepSeek V3.2: Which to Run Locally in 2026
Llama 4 needs 55GB. DeepSeek V3.2 needs 350GB. Qwen3 runs on 8GB. Here's who wins at each VRAM tier and use case for local AI in 2026.
DeepSeek V3.2 Guide: What Changed and How to Run It Locally
DeepSeek V3.2 was the Feb 2026 flagship — V4 now leads. But the R1-Distill models run on a $200 used GPU and remain the local reasoning pick.
Slash Your AI Costs With a Token Audit
Your AI API bill is higher than it needs to be. A 15-minute token audit finds the waste — system prompts, ballooning history, hidden tool tokens. Here's the exact process.
DeepSeek Models Guide: R1, V3, and Coder
Complete DeepSeek models guide covering R1, V3, and Coder locally. Which distilled R1 to pick for your GPU, VRAM requirements, and benchmarks vs Qwen 3.
Best Local LLMs for Math & Reasoning: What Actually Works
The best local LLMs for math and reasoning in 2026, ranked by VRAM tier. AIME 2026 and GPQA benchmarks for Qwen 3.6, Qwen 3.5 thinking, and where the old R1-distills now stand.