According to Bijie.com, DeepSeek officially announced that the DeepSeek V4 official version is scheduled to launch in mid-July, simultaneously introducing a peak-valley pricing mechanism. During peak hours (9:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 Beijing time) daily, API fees will be double the weekday rate. For the high-performance model deepseek-v4-pro, the weekday price per million tokens for a cache hit is ¥0.025, a cache miss is ¥3.00, and an output is ¥6.00. During peak hours, these three prices will be increased to ¥0.05, ¥6.00, and ¥12.00 respectively. For the lightweight model deepseek-v4-flash, the weekday price per million tokens for a cache hit is ¥0.02, a cache miss is ¥1.00, and an output is ¥2.00. During peak hours, these three prices will be adjusted to ¥0.04, ¥2.00, and ¥4.00 respectively. Users will be notified via email 24 hours before the actual billing adjustment takes place.

According to CoinWorld, Google (Alphabet) will offer specialized AI models from software company Sandbox AQ through its cloud service platform, aiming to expand the application of technologies designed to accelerate drug discovery, materials science, and semiconductor manufacturing by businesses and research institutions. Google will include Sandbox AQ's so-called "large quantization models" in its cloud marketplace, enabling researchers to combine Google's Gemini language model with AI systems trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. Unlike large language models, which excel at generating text, large quantization models are trained on numerical data and are designed to assist in solving problems in chemistry, biology, and physics.

According to MSX data, Solidion Technology, a battery technology company, saw its shares rise 26.5% in pre-market trading after announcing it would purchase SpaceX (SPCX.O) shares as a strategic reserve asset.

According to CoinWorld, the Austrian government has proposed that the EU explore establishing Anthropic within the EU to counter US restrictions on foreign access to its most advanced models. In a letter, Austrian State Secretary for Digital Affairs Alexander Proell urged EU Technology Commissioner Henna Virkkunen to consider strategic involvement with Anthropic, arguing that Europe should not lose access to significant AI advancements due to external decisions. Proell stated that the EU could provide the company with legal guarantees, market access, investment, and a value-based environment. While acknowledging the skepticism and practical challenges this would face, he believes Europe should decide whether it wants to shape its own technological future or continue to rely on external decisions. This proposal comes weeks after Anthropic suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models due to a US government export control directive.