DeepSeek Rival’s Chinese Backer Monolith Raises $289 Million

Mistral AI has launched the Mistral 3 family, a suite of 10 open-source models designed for diverse applications, including smartphones, drones, and enterprise systems. This release represents a significant advancement in Mistral's efforts to compete with major tech players like OpenAI and Google, as well as emerging competitors from China.

DeepSeek is set to launch its new AI model, R2, after delays attributed to limited access to computing resources. This development is expected to heighten the ongoing competition between the U.S. and China in the artificial intelligence sector.

DeepSeek has made headlines again with its recent advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly with the introduction of its new model, DeepSeekMath-V2, which has achieved gold medal status at both the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024. This achievement highlights the company's growing influence in the AI sector.

Recent advancements in Diffusion Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have highlighted the importance of architectural configurations over routing mechanisms. A systematic study has identified key factors such as expert modules and attention encodings that significantly enhance the performance of these models, suggesting that tuning these configurations can yield better results than routing innovations alone.