Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a top coding and business model that only trusted security teams can use for now

Priced at $2 per million input tokens, but wider access waits on safety checks and a US government review.

GOOGLE|30 SEP

6 Oct

Mistral AI

Mistral launches Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter model trained in Europe, with open weights due this month

5 Oct

The Decoder

Meta and Microsoft are cutting back on Claude and steering staff to their own AI tools

1 Oct

Cloudflare

Cloudflare releases Clef, open AI models that sort or approve things and return a probability

DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion, backed by Tencent and CATL, and eyes a 2027 listing

The Decoder· 6 Oct

Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion, and the total could approach $15 billion. The Chinese AI company first aimed for about $7.5 billion at a valuation near $75 billion. Battery maker CATL and Tencent are putting in the largest shares. After the round it plans to restructure for a stock-market listing in early 2027, and it is building a data centre with at least 160,000 Huawei AI chips.

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