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According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Doubao Work has officially integrated with multiple third-party models such as Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.In addition, Doubao Work has launched a limited-time discount for Doubao 2.1 Lite and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, reducing the consumption multiplier for these two models.

According to an interview with "Daily People," a data center operations engineer who has worked in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia for 5 years stated that local AI data centers are still under large-scale construction, but the hiring demand at his company has significantly decreased. The company hired thousands of people in 2025, but by the time of the interview in 2026, only 3 new hires had been made.The engineer, who goes by the pseudonym Zhang Liwei, originally worked on an assembly line at an automobile factory. When he first switched careers, his internship monthly salary was 2,000 yuan, which increased to 4,500 yuan after graduation. After 5 years of job hopping and promotions, he currently earns over 10,000 yuan per month. In April of this year, DeepSeek was hiring senior operations engineers and senior delivery managers for its data center in Ulanqab, offering a monthly salary of 15,000 to 30,000 yuan, with 14 months' salary. These positions require extensive experience in data center operations and project management. According to Zhang Liwei's observations, local ordinary duty staff still earn around 5,000 to 6,000 yuan per month, while assistant engineers can earn over 10,000 yuan.The entry barriers are also rising. In 2024, some data centers were still hiring newcomers without relevant professional backgrounds; however, this year, some companies have required candidates to have a relevant degree and work experience, and there is even a 35-year age limit for basic duty positions. Zhang Liwei mentioned that a former colleague has started a training class for operations, charging nearly 20,000 yuan per student, and classes only start when there are 60 students, with a single session fee approaching 1.2 million yuan. The so-called internal recommendations are mostly just to help students secure an interview opportunity.

In September, the American research institution Epoch AI estimated the annual revenue of various companies, finding that six Chinese artificial intelligence companies had a combined revenue of 11 billion dollars, approximately one-tenth of the combined 105 billion dollars of OpenAI and Anthropic. The statistical scope includes companies such as DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, as well as related business revenues from Alibaba and ByteDance's cloud computing, with ByteDance leading Chinese companies at 4 billion dollars.The Information reported in September that DeepSeek's annual recurring revenue doubled within a few months, reaching 1 billion dollars. OpenRouter data shows that open-source models account for over 70% of the platform's token usage. As of September 16, eight companies provided Zhipu AI's GLM-5 model services on the platform, with third-party services accounting for 75% of its token call volume in the past 24 hours; DeepSeek's V4 Pro offered services at 87% lower than the official pricing, with about 70% of token usage coming from external service providers during the same period.

On November 8, Tencent's AI product WorkBuddy released a statement and compensation announcement regarding the DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash discount event. On September 10, WorkBuddy launched DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash and simultaneously started a two-week 50% discount points experience event, which was originally scheduled to end on September 24. Subsequently, WorkBuddy extended the discount until November 5 and restored the original price starting from 14:00 on November 5. Due to the delay in announcing this adjustment to users, WorkBuddy expressed its apologies for the inconvenience caused.WorkBuddy has decided that for accounts that used DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash from 14:00 on November 5 to 23:59 on November 8, all points consumed during this period will be settled at the original price with a 50% discount. The difference, which is 50% of the total points actually consumed, will be fully refunded. No application is required for the refund, as it will be automatically calculated by the system and is expected to be credited within 7 working days.

According to IT Home, on the afternoon of November 7, multiple users reported that DeepSeek experienced service issues, with a dialogue prompt stating "Server temporarily unavailable." The official status page of DeepSeek shows that the issue has been resolved and services have been restored. The duration of the interruption for the webpage and API was from November 7, 15:11 to 15:56, totaling 45 minutes.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," the artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has once again experienced issues with its chat function, with the chat interface temporarily displaying "Server busy, please try again later." The official status page indicates that starting from 15:11 today, there have been partial interruptions to the website and API, and the official team is investigating the issue to identify the cause.The affected services include the chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API service, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service. The latest update on the DeepSeek official website states that the interruption issue has been addressed, and they are currently monitoring the effectiveness of the fix.

According to a report by Yicai, the "2026 Corporate AI Status Report" released by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures shows that 89% of the spending by American companies on open-source models went to Chinese models, with Kimi accounting for 61%, DeepSeek for 15%, and GLM for 11%.In addition, on the global AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter, from October 26 to November 1, the number of Token calls for Chinese large models has exceeded that of American models for 27 consecutive weeks, with Chinese models occupying four of the top five models in terms of platform call volume that week.

According to Gelonghui, the DeepSeek Harness team released data on the evening of November 5, showing that as of November 4, the daily active users of DeepSeek Harness, based on users utilizing the official API, have reached 1.54 million, with daily token consumption of approximately 92 trillion.The data indicates that on September 30, the daily active users of DeepSeek Harness (7-day average) were 271,000, reaching 429,000 on October 7, and climbing to 1.54 million on November 4, an increase of over one million in just one month.

According to "Du Jia," Baidu recently launched an open model service platform called "Word Element Institute" aimed at developers, enterprise clients, and model suppliers. It is positioned as a matchmaking trading platform connecting model suppliers and consumers, gathering 42 large models, covering text and video models such as DeepSeek, Kimi, and Zhipu GLM. Developers can connect to the Word Element Institute API once to switch between models from multiple vendors and be billed based on usage.The same model can be accessed by multiple suppliers. The platform displays pricing, initial token latency, throughput speed, 7-day success rate, and historical call volume, and supports both OpenAI and Anthropic protocols. Taking DeepSeek-v4.1-flash as an example, the platform connects to 6 suppliers, marking the price savings ratio on the page, while also displaying context window, launch time, deployment region, and supplier credit evaluation.The platform ranking is based on real call data and can be viewed for the last 24 hours, last 7 days, and last 30 days. Screenshots show a total of 398 million calls in the last 7 days, with a total token volume of 51.336 trillion, involving 68 ranked model resources, and an average initial token latency of 290 milliseconds. DeepSeek-v4.1-flash ranks first in both call volume and token usage. Participating suppliers include Bochuan Technology, Infinite Mind, Star Hub Word Element, and Zhipu Original Factory, with the platform showcasing resources and supplier information through credit evaluations and blockchain proof.

The Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily reporter learned from multiple sources that the venture capital firm Lisi Capital, which participated in the previous round of financing for DeepSeek, continues to secure an investment share in DeepSeek's new round of financing, with the participating entity being its subsidiary Tianjin Lisi Xing Shen Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (Xing Shen Fund). As multiple listed companies disclose their funding progress and business information updates, the fund size has increased from the previously disclosed 2.64 billion yuan to 6.02 billion yuan, and was ultimately confirmed at 7.52 billion yuan, with the funds already paid in.Public announcements show that Zhihu announced on September 6 that it plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan through its wholly-owned subsidiary to participate in the Xing Shen Fund, which completed registration with the Asset Management Association of China on September 15; Tongchen Beijian disclosed in late September that it participated with its own funds of 50 million yuan when the fund size was 2.64 billion yuan. On October 9, Zhongwang Fabric announced its intention to invest 50 million yuan, at which time the subscribed amount had increased to 6.02 billion yuan. On October 21, Tongchen Beijian disclosed that it received notice that the fundraising scale had increased from 2.64 billion yuan to 7.52 billion yuan, the fundraising has been completed and all funds have been paid in; Perfect World, Te Bao Biotechnology, and others subsequently confirmed this scale. According to Qichacha, the Xing Shen Fund has a total of 41 partners, including the executive partner Tianjin Lisi Ming Tang and 40 limited partners, with a total subscribed capital of 7.52 billion yuan.The reporter compiled that 13 listed companies and their related funding entities have a total subscribed amount of 3.495 billion yuan, accounting for approximately 46.48% of the total fund size. Zhejiang Innovation Deep Intelligent Venture Capital Partnership has subscribed 1.4 billion yuan, making it the second-largest contributor; along with the two funds of Zhejiang Province, Ke Chuang Zhan Xin and Ke Chuang Wei Lai, each subscribing 50 million yuan, the three Zhejiang state-owned entities have a total subscription of 1.5 billion yuan, while Wuxi Chanfang Guosheng Innovation Development Equity Investment Partnership has subscribed 80 million yuan. A person familiar with the situation stated that Lisi is one of the market-oriented institutions that obtained a larger share, while other market-oriented institutions typically have quotas ranging from 3 billion yuan to 4 billion yuan. Zhihu previously announced that the Xing Shen Fund adopts a blind pool structure, and this person indicated that the actual allocation may still be highly concentrated in DeepSeek. The reporter had previously sought confirmation from Lisi Capital on whether the Xing Shen Fund participated in this round of financing, but had not received a clear response by the time of publication.

On the afternoon of November 3, a reporter from Yicai tested and found that the dialogue function of DeepSeek, a subsidiary of the artificial intelligence company Deep Pursuit, was unavailable, with the chat interface displaying "Server busy, please try again later."The official status page of DeepSeek shows that starting from 16:58 on the same day, there were partial interruptions to the DeepSeek website and API, and the official team is investigating the issue to identify the cause. Affected services include the dialogue service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API service, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service.

According to Bloomberg, Wang Ruomeng, an official from China's National Development and Reform Commission, stated on Tuesday that China is accelerating the legislation of artificial intelligence, implementing full lifecycle supervision on the development and application of AI, covering aspects such as data and computing power.This set of standards aims to prevent the risks of increasingly powerful AI losing control and is considered one of the more comprehensive AI safety guidelines currently available. Regulation will involve major developers such as DeepSeek, Dark Side of the Moon, and Alibaba, which are pushing to create products that can compete with the top models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on November 3, reporters learned from multiple industry chain insiders that the artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's next-generation large model, DeepSeek V5, plans to be trained based on Huawei's Ascend chips. Previously, the Ascend chips were mainly used for inference tasks of the DeepSeek large model.The report stated that at the end of September this year, DeepSeek open-sourced infrastructure components for the Huawei Ascend computing power platform, covering the TileLang high-level language compilation tool, computing libraries, and distributed communication libraries, which correspond one-to-one with the previously open-sourced components for the NVIDIA platform. The report was written by Huang Xinyi, a reporter for the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily.

According to the latest rankings from QuestMobile, in September 2026, Alibaba's AI application Qianwen App reached 158 million monthly active users, a year-on-year increase of 5077%, ranking first in growth among apps with over 100 million monthly active users. In the domestic AI native app rankings, Qianwen ranks second, surpassing DeepSeek's 123 million, but still below the first place, Doubao, which has 419 million.This growth is related to Alibaba's large-scale promotion. In November last year, the Tongyi App was renamed to Qianwen. This Spring Festival, Alibaba announced an investment of 3 billion yuan to launch a free order campaign, allowing users to order milk tea and takeout through AI. The campaign link was widely shared in WeChat groups, and the system experienced delays due to increased traffic. QuestMobile data shows that on the first day of the campaign, Qianwen's daily active users rose from about 7.06 million to 58.48 million.The year-on-year growth of 5077% was also influenced by last year's low base. Based on year-on-year data, Qianwen's monthly active users were about 3.05 million in September last year. By March this year, Qianwen's monthly active users had reached 166 million, rising to 167 million in June, and then falling back to 158 million in September, a decrease of about 9 million compared to June, with a decline rate of approximately 5.4%.

DeepSeek showcased the creator mode of the AI workstation Harness. Harness currently offers four modes: Standard, PTC, Minimal, and Creator. Among them, the Creator mode allows users to directly let AI develop plugins, modify software interfaces, and then install them for use in Harness without needing to write code themselves.Users only need to describe their requirements, and the AI will check Harness's development interface, write the plugin code, complete the installation, and check the running effects. The installed plugins can be saved for continued use the next time they open the application. In addition to adding new interfaces, it can also provide tools for the Agent, enabling it to perform operations it originally could not. For example, users can have AI create a video editing tool with a timeline, a paper reader that supports underlining and annotations, as well as generate poster design tools, interactive 3D models, or even change the Harness interface to a pixel game style.In the official demonstration, the AI created a floating tomato timer, writing over 600 lines of front-end code, completing the installation and operation, taking a total of 5 minutes and 24 seconds. DeepSeek also released the prompts for 7 demonstration cases. Some works were modified through multiple rounds of dialogue, and it is not possible to achieve the same effect by simply inputting a single sentence.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has announced a design plan aimed at enhancing the autonomy of AI coding assistants, allowing them to reduce human intervention while performing multiple tasks. According to a report by the South China Morning Post on Sunday, the plan originates from a paper published by the DeepSeek Harness team, with the core goal of reducing the human effort required to coordinate and monitor multiple AI agents.The team pointed out that managing multiple agents consumes human attention and cited a statement from the paper that "the single-task limit depends on model capability, while the multi-task limit depends on human attention." The paper also stated that one person can only supervise 3 to 5 active AI agent conversations at the same time. The proposed system will allocate tasks and coordinate work among the agents, allowing humans to free up energy to review results and make decisions.This proposal comes at a time of intense competition among AI developers, involving American companies Anthropic and OpenAI. Previously, Cointelegraph reported in October last year that, according to data from blockchain analysis platform CoinGlass, Chinese AI models outperformed their American counterparts in cryptocurrency trading, with DeepSeek being the only AI model in an experiment to achieve a 9.1% positive unrealized return, while the development cost of this model was only a small fraction of that of its American competitors.

IT Home reported on October 30 that developers discovered application entry points and interface logic related to the Cyber cybersecurity model in the front-end code of the DeepSeek official website. The application page route points to /usage/model-application and has a feature gate switch set; accounts without permission will be redirected back to the usage page when accessed. The code also includes interfaces related to Cyber Key creation and quota management.The models in the code are identified as cyber-personal-v3 and cyber-enterprise-v4. The personal version is aimed at individual security practitioners, requiring the submission of ID information and completion of facial verification; the enterprise version is aimed at corporate entities, requiring not only real-name materials but also a business license and authorization letter. Common thresholds for both channels include that the account has completed real-name verification and is in normal status, registered in mainland China and bound to a mainland mobile number, and has no violation records in the past 90 days.The application process involves filling out an application form and submitting it for review. After passing the review, a Cyber Key is created. Currently, this entry point does not appear in the public menu of DeepSeek and is in a gray testing state. Some users have reported that only accounts covered by the gray test can see the relevant sections on the usage page, and when permissions are granted, the "DeepSeek Flash Cyber Cybersecurity Dedicated API" area will be displayed. As of the time of reporting, DeepSeek has not yet released an official announcement regarding this model; the information comes from observations of the official website's JavaScript code and feedback from gray test users.

According to The Information, details of DeepSeek's second round of financing have emerged. This round of financing amounts to 105.5 billion yuan (approximately 15.8 billion USD), attracting nearly 30 investors, corresponding to a company valuation of about 615.5 billion yuan. Tencent Holdings and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. remain the two main funding sources: Tencent contributed 10 billion yuan in both rounds; Contemporary Amperex Technology and its chairman Zeng Yuqun contributed 5 billion yuan and 10 billion yuan in the two rounds, respectively.Industrial capital from Changxin Memory Technologies, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, vivo, Meituan, Geely Automobile, Midea Group, Luxshare Precision, Trip.com, and Xiaohongshu also participated, with some single contributions ranging from 1 billion to 3 billion yuan. The participation of state-owned capital has significantly increased. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund of China contributed another 1 billion yuan in this round, the same as in the first round. Institutions such as China Mobile, China Telecom, CICC, CITIC Securities, and China Life also participated in the investment, with individual contributions ranging from 2 billion to 8 billion yuan.Informed sources stated that the continuous rise in prices of high-end chips from NVIDIA and concerns about the AI industry bubble are the reasons why DeepSeek decided to double its fundraising scale midway. Previously, Bloomberg reported that DeepSeek had completed approximately 100 billion yuan in financing, led by Contemporary Amperex Technology and Tencent.

Doubao Work announced the opening of third-party large model services to enterprise clients, with the first batch including models such as Kimi K3.1 Pro from Moon's Dark Side, Zhipu GLM-5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Enterprise users can directly switch models in the Doubao Work dialogue interface, no longer limited to Doubao's own models.Previously, Doubao Work supported users to access third-party models independently, and custom access required users to settle fees separately with the model vendors. The tool invocation and product costs of Doubao Work are still consumed separately. This time, third-party models are directly included in the product's model selection menu, lowering the switching and usage threshold.