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6.24 On June 24, at the FORCE Power Conference, ByteDance officially released the Doubao 2.1 Pro large model, with core metrics that shook the industry: programming capabilities on par with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, and overall usage costs reduced by nearly 80% compared to the Claude Opus 4.6–4.8 series. At the same time, the company previewed that its video generation model Seedance 2.5 will officially launch in early July,

2.21 The State of AI: China – Q1 2025 report from Artificial Analysis highlights remarkable progress from Chinese AI labs in the language model space. Since late 2024, leading players and startups—including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Tencent—have rapidly narrowed the technological gap with U.S. frontier models through a dense cadence of high-performance model releases

9.10 On September 10, DeepSeek officially released the V4.1 Flash model, the smallest in its new architecture series, yet one that comprehensively surpasses its previous flagship V4 Pro. Alongside the launch, DeepSeek announced an orderly retirement of V4 Pro: after 12:00 on September 14, all V4 Pro requests will be routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at the new rates.