China AI Native Industry Insights – 20261020 – DeepSeek | Alibaba | OpenBMB | more
DeepSeek, Alibaba’s Ant Group, and OpenBMB are at the forefront of today’s technological advancements. The overarching theme revolves around enhanced AI performance and accessibility. DeepSeek introduces version 4.1-Flash-1017, which promises faster and more cost-effective operations, while also opening up Search and Fetch APIs to developers, expanding utility and integration options. Meanwhile, Alibaba’s Ant Group has open-sourced five Ming-3.0 speech AI models, showcasing a commitment to community collaboration and innovation. OpenBMB’s MiniCPM-V 4.7 notably secures the third position on the Hugging Face trending list. Discover more in Today’s China AI Native Industry Insights.
1. DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash-1017 with Faster, Cheaper Performance
DeepSeek announced the release of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an updated model now available on its website, app, and API. The company says the new version delivers stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs compared to its predecessor, representing a Pareto improvement in both performance and cost. The model is optimized for use with DeepSeek Harness, Tencent CodeBuddy, and WorkBuddy. DeepSeek recommends upgrading to DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc.1 or later for the best experience with the new model.
Read more: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/X-5kbBkedQ5Oct9byUunag
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2. DeepSeek Opens Search and Fetch APIs to All Developers
DeepSeek has opened its Search and Fetch APIs to all developers. The APIs are powered by DeepSeek’s in-house search engine, which handles hundreds of millions of requests daily worldwide. Each endpoint is priced at 0.75 US dollars per 1,000 calls. Calls made through server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, and Codex remain free for DeepSeek API users until billing begins on October 31, 2026 at 16:00 UTC.
Read more: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
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3. Alibaba’s Ant Group Open-Sources Five Ming-3.0 Speech AI Models
Ant Group released five open-source Ming-3.0 models spanning three speech-related families: text-to-speech, audio understanding, and automatic speech recognition. The TTS family includes a 0.5B model for voice design and paralinguistic control and a 7.9B (1.3B active) model for long-form speech. The audio family includes a 126B (6.5B active) model for understanding and tool use and a 9.3B (2.7B active) model for efficient dialogue. The ASR family adds an 8.6B (2B active) model supporting dialects and contextual recognition.
Read more: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UZ30ww14wXhgOJ4jqnCnKA
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4. OpenBMB’s MiniCPM-V 4.7 ranks third on Hugging Face trending list
OpenBMB announced that its MiniCPM-V 4.7 multimodal model reached third place on Hugging Face’s trending list. The release includes a 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts model that runs smoothly on iOS and Android devices using about 3GB of memory. A smaller 1B parameter variant delivers strong performance on OCR, math, and video understanding tasks. The model and code are available on GitHub and Hugging Face.
Read more: https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-V
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