Morning brief: DeepSeek prices web search at ¥5/1k requests; StartLux tops Hugging Face chart
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-10-19
AI highlights from this morning brief:
- DeepSeek: released V4.1Flash-1017 with token usage down over 50%; web search/fetch API priced at ¥5 per 1,000 successful requests starting Nov 1; reportedly investing in a humanoid robotics startup founded by a former Tencent AI Lab lead.
- StartLux tops Hugging Face: StartLux-Decision-v1.1-27B Instant scored 69.1 on Decision Index 0.3.2, nearly 3 points ahead of second place.
- Harvard/Google research: the TheoPhysEval benchmark claims GPT-6Astra solved 98% of unpublished theoretical physics problems, even catching a question-setter's math error.
- OpenAI humanoid robots: demo prototype targeted for 2027.
- Others: Microsoft exits Nscale data center deal; Meta deletes AI training clause; WeChat bans AI face-swap sales account; Gewu Tongzhi raises ¥100M angel round; Agility Robotics pairs Digit 5 with Nyobolt fast-charge batteries (9 min charge = 90 min work).
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