DeepSeek Open-Sources Inference Framework as OpenAI Advances Biotech and Fundraising

Today’s developments span inference infrastructure, life sciences, and capital strategy, alongside updates to TPU tools, voice models, and local agents.

The essentials

DeepSeek Open-Sources Production Inference Framework

DeepSeek announced that it is open-sourcing DeepInfer under Apache-2.0, saying it currently provides large-scale production service for V4.1-Flash. AIHot also reported the simultaneous open-sourcing of the Token encoding and decoding component deepseek-recipe.

OpenAI Acquires Orchestra Bio

OpenAI announced the acquisition of drug development coordination platform Orchestra Bio. Its team and technology will join Rosalind, OpenAI’s life sciences system, to help biopharma teams manage research and project workflows.

OpenAI Reportedly Accelerates Fundraising

According to Reuters, OpenAI is in talks to raise about $30 billion at a valuation of more than $1.4 trillion, aiming to advance fundraising ahead of Anthropic’s IPO. AGI Hunt also mentioned the reported fundraising talks.

In brief

Mercury 3 Launches

Inception Labs released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based large model, and said it reaches 1,068 tokens per second.

Google and Meta Introduce TorchTPU

The open-source project provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPU and supports deploying models on TPU.

ChatGPT Introduces Locked Chats

Sensitive conversations can be locked with a PIN or supported-device biometrics. The feature is rolling out to multiple plan types.

Claude Designs Scorpion Venom-Binding Proteins

Anthropic said its model generated more than 300,000 designs targeting five scorpion venoms, of which 17 were effective.

Perplexity Computer Runs Locally on Mac

Computer can run locally on Macs with at least 36GB of memory, without cloud inference.