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AINick Brown of the Center for Technology and Statecraft says China imported roughly 90 immersion DUV lithography systems a year in 2024 and 2025, nearly two-thirds of ASML's immersion DUV exports.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, which it says powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency.

Why it matters: The post links to DeepSeek's open-source inference framework and its production use, which is useful for teams weighing serving cost and throughput.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, a high-performance, large-scale inference framework, under the Apache-2.0 license, according to Tianyi Cui's post.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the in-house inference framework it uses to run DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency.

AIDeepSeek has released DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as open source on GitHub.

AIvLLM thanks DeepSeek for open-sourcing DeepInfer under Apache 2.0, noting it was built primarily on vLLM. DeepSeek says DeepInfer powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale and shares its production stack to lower compute costs. vLLM says it will keep improving DeepSeek V4.1 Flash inference efficiency using ideas from DeepInfer.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, an offline inference framework under Apache 2.0 that it says is the same stack serving its production services.

AIKling AI's blog compares six AI image editing products, including Kling IMAGE 3.0 Omni, Leonardo AI, Adobe Firefly, Krea, Canva, and Picsart.

AIKling AI's blog lists 20 video ideas for content creators across lifestyle, tutorials, personal stories, hobbies and creative formats.

AIDongxi NLP reports that DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, a high-performance, large-scale inference framework, under the Apache-2.0 license.

AIDeepSeek releases DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as open source on GitHub.

AIDeepSeek has released DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as open source on GitHub.

AIOpenBMB thanks @aiwithsally for demonstrating MiniCPM-V 4.7 in an automated report-generation workflow.

AIOrange AI (@oran_ge) tested the latest DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on a video animation task, using a harness built by cola in 12 minutes at a total cost of about $0.20.

AIThe openbmb/tiny-processor-minicpm-ocr repository on Hugging Face is publicly listed, but users must accept its conditions and share their Hugging Face information before viewing its files.

AIThe Oct 20 brief from Testing Catalog lists ChatGPT Slides real-time collaboration for Pro, Business and Enterprise plans, and Meta's technical report on its 30B Apache 2.0 open-weight agentic model Muse Glimmer, which runs on a single consumer GPU. It also reports MiniMax M3.1 Flash launching at $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens with open weights due Oct 23, and Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion LLM running over 1,000 tokens per second with a 1M-token context window.

AIHuawei is promoting its MatePad Pro, MatePad Air, MatePad Air Z, MatePad 11.5 and MateBook series for Double 11, with discounts of up to 1,000 yuan on the MatePad Pro and 700 yuan on the MatePad Air.

AINeolix, an autonomous delivery vehicle company, says it has closed a Series E round of nearly $400 million led by Boyu Capital and a national-level fund.

AIGTC2026 Global Traffic Conference will be held November 4-5, 2026, at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center's H3 hall, with a new AI hardware zone covering robotics, wearables, AI terminals and embodied AI. The zone is recruiting exhibitors, and general admission tickets are free for a limited time.

AISaidou Technology's first car, the AIVA ME7, appeared in a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology filing, with a 4,999mm length, 3,050mm wheelbase and CATL ternary lithium battery.

AIAlibaba's DAMO Academy introduced the XuanTie E908A, a RISC-V CPU IP core for automotive chips, at the RISC-V China Summit on October 19.

AISpacemiT and the XiangShan team introduced the V100 RISC-V server CPU alongside three complete servers at the RISC-V China Summit on October 19.

AIChina Telecom's XingChen AGI lab open-sourced Xing4.0-29B-Intent, a 29B model that classifies user intents and extracts their parameters in one pass, returning unified JSON. The team reports end-to-end inference latency under 150 milliseconds and a zero-shot cold-start Micro-F1 of 70.27, which it says beats GPT-4.1.

AIWuXi Stars Micro System Technologies introduced three interconnect chips for AI servers and clusters at its first product launch on October 15.

AIThe Department of Homeland Security ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek's Chinese AI model and associated third-party services from their systems, citing national security concerns.

AIThe Department of Homeland Security made public an order barring federal civilian agencies from using DeepSeek products and services and requiring removal of DeepSeek-related technology from their IT systems.

AIPeking University and Qiyuan Robotics propose HIL-UMI, a method that collects error-correction data for embodied models without a robot arm.

AIAlibaba's Wan account says Wan3.0 Prime is first and Wan3.0 is third on OpenRouter's video leaderboard, New & Trending view. The account credits the placement to creators choosing Wan and asks users to share what they make with it.

AIThe weekly AINews roundup covers DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3, and notes that the first two are not yet in wide use.

AIChina Telecom's Xing general AI lab releases and open-sources Xing4.0-29B-Intent, an intent-understanding model, along with 2.75 million training corpus entries and model weights.

AIPhysis and vLLM introduce PhysisServe, a serving system that uses stage-wise pipelining, time-sharing, and joint multi-stream scheduling to improve both single-stream latency and multi-stream efficiency.

AIKling AI releases its Kling 4.0 video model, which generates single videos up to 30 seconds long.

AIAnt Ling thanks @AdinaYakup for sharing Ming-3.0 and highlighting its five open speech models. The post says the models are now available for developers to explore on Hugging Face, where Ant Group released its new speech and audio models.

AIPerch AI now offers MiniMax M3.1 Flash free of charge, alongside GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and Beam 1.0.

AIWorkBuddy says it built a feature for users juggling Hong Kong and US positions across multiple screens.

AIAnt Ling thanks Atomic Chat for helping bring its Ming-3.0 speech models to local AI workflows.

AIAnt Ling thanks vLLM for day-0 vLLM-Omni support that makes Ming-3.0 easier to deploy. vLLM says Ant Ling open-sourced five speech models for TTS, audio understanding, and ASR, ranging from 0.5B to 126B total parameters with 6.5B active.

AIAnt Ling thanks the SGLang project for day-0 SGLang-Omni support and cookbooks for its Ming-3.0 models.

AIAnt Group's Ming-3.0-tts ranks first among open-weights models on Artificial Analysis's Controlled Voice leaderboard, with an Elo of 1,069, and ties Fish Audio's Drama 3 Preview for first on Pronunciation Robustness at 93.2%.

AIZhongke Tongliang showed its SmarCo AI workstation, SmarCo intelligent video encoding appliance and SmarCo AI acceleration card at the 6th RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen on October 18.