#070 AI News for business - week 34

Last week the open-weight model was the escape hatch from vendor lock-in. This week it got smaller three ways at once — Chinese open models arrived with strings attached, DeepSeek raised prices behind a discount headline, and the financing behind AI infrastructure revealed itself as circular.

Top stories for week 34:

ZAI's GLM 5.3 tops cyber, holds weights backAlibaba opens stripped Qwen, revenue shareDeepSeek hides price hike as off-peak dealVantage eyes $100B IPO; AI money circular Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.