DeepSeek in the Media
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July 2026
China And AI Lead Asia’s Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2
Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. Led by China's $7.4 billion DeepSeek raise, that’s by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years.
DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise
DeepSeek is getting ready to go public. The Chinese AI lab has started laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. It could file as soon as this year, with a debut targ
DeepSeek’s Annualized Revenue Nears $500 Million, Boosting Fundraise and IPO Plans
DeepSeek’s annualized revenue reached between $400 million and $500 million recently, in a potential boost for the Chinese AI developer’s effort to raise its second funding round, The information <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseeks-annualized-revenue-nears-500-million-boost
DeepSeek’s Annualized Revenue Nears $500 Million, Boosting Fundraise and IPO Plans
Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese open-source AI star to raise its second-funding round of 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) and plot a potential public offering in Shanghai next year, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The three-year-old startu
DeepSeek Plots Another Funding Round, Weeks After Raising $7.4 Billion
DeepSeek is planning to raise funding again, weeks after its first fundraising closed, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The Chinese AI lab raised 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) a month ago at a post-money valuation of more than $50 billion, The Information repor
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder
Liang Wenfeng is now the wealthiest founder in artificial intelligence, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which revalued his stake in DeepSeek on 13 July and added roughly $19bn to his
DeepSeek AI review
DeepSeek delivers frontier-class AI performance at a fraction of competitor prices, but serious privacy concerns make it a complicated choice for businesses.
DeepSeek accidentally built a working ransomware strain, experts note, 'What we are witnessing is a fundamental shift in how novel cyber attacks are born'
DeepSeek accidentally created a working browser ransomware technique targeting Android photos, Check Point Research found, without human guidance involved.
Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.
Reuters: DeepSeek is developing its own AI chips
DeepSeek, the Chinese company making AI models on the cheap, might look to do the same for AI chips.
June 2026
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%
Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit
DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge
China’s AI sector is not short of cash. If anything, American pressure is pumping more in. DeepSeek shows the pattern best. The Hangzhou lab closed a $7.4bn roun
Anthropic’s Mythos Spooked DeepSeek, Prompting Its $7.4 Billion Fundraising
Anthropic’s release in early April of a preview of its powerful Mythos model prompted the CEO of Chinese AI developer DeepSeek to raise external capital for the first time, The Information reported. DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng realized that his company needed a much bigger war chest to secu
Anthropic’s Mythos Spooked DeepSeek, Prompting Its $7.4 Billion Fundraising
Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI battle. It had relied entirely on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth and never raised outside money. That changed in the middle of this month, when DeepSeek completed
'Humanity now stands on the eve of AGI': DeepSeek wants to "at least double the size of every department" as company pursues hiring spree in pursuit of AGI
DeepSeek is hiring engineers, product managers and more as it targets the next era of AI – artificial general intelligence.
20VC x SaaStr: Google Loses Two Generational Scientists in 48 Hours, the $725B Question Wall Street Is Finally Asking, and Why #3 in AI Is a Death Sentence
With Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll Every week, Harry, Rory, and I sit down to argue about what’s actually happening in AI and B2B. This week I was back from two weeks in China, where it’s a parallel universe of DeepSeek and Gemini, and where I finally understoo
The US almost blacklisted DeepSeek for contributing to China’s military and intelligence — but the White House held back to avoid escalating tensions
Chinese firms were not added to the Entity List ahead of Trump's meeting with Chinese premier Xi Jinping.
DeepSeek was set to be added to US Entity List for supporting China’s military and intelligence operations, report claims — White House holds off to avoid escalating tensions with China
DeepSeek and CXMT, which have both been tagged as supporting Chinese military and intelligence operations, are set to be added to the U.S.'s Entity List. However, the White House hasn't included them yet in order to avoid escalating trade tensions with Beijing.
DeepSeek reportedly wont be banned in U.S. (for now)
DeepSeek is available in the U.S. for now, the U.S. government reportedly holding off on banning the Chinese AI company.
Microsoft Mulls Using DeepSeek for Copilot Cowork
Microsoft is considering adding Chinese AI developer DeepSeek’s V4 as a cheaper model option for powering the Copilot Cowork AI assistant, Axios reported. The U.S. tech giant is exploring a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek V4, or another open-source model, as a cheaper alternative to .
US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms
The decision had, in effect, already been made. According to people familiar with the matter, reports Reuters, a US interagency committee approved adding the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, the memory-chip
Microsoft Mulls China’s DeepSeek for Copilot, Probably to Trump’s Chagrin
Don't see this going over well.
DeepSeek Closes Record $7 Billion-Plus Funding with Unusual Deal Structure
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) under an unusual deal structure, The Information reported. The funding round, which values the large-language model developer at more than $50 billion, requires investors to put
DeepSeek Closes Record $7 Billion-Plus Funding with Unusual Deal Structure
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) under an unusual deal structure, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The funding round, which values the large-language model developer at more tha
Stop copy-pasting prompts across GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini — this tool combines them for a one-time $55
Compare outputs from GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and more with ChatPlayground AI’s lifetime plan for side-by-side AI testing and prompt optimization.
The great AI Irony: China cracks down on Western models while US companies flock to DeepSeek
China is taking a hard-hitting approach to foreign AI and chipmakers, even as Western nations continue to embrace DeepSeek as a cheaper alternative
Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training
A research group that includes Huawei Technologies says it completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model.
Many US tech firms are turning to China's DeepSeek as the bill for homegrown AI bites – American AI companies could learn a thing or two
American models are simply too expensive – US firms are now turning to DeepSeek for cheaper costs and portability.
US Firms Try DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI Costs Rise
US firms are testing China’s DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI costs rise, raising questions about savings, data residency, and risk. The post US Firms Try DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI Costs Rise app
DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn
DeepSeek has spent eighteen months as the most talked-about AI lab that almost nobody could invest in. That is about to change. The Chinese startup is slated to raise roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn
Akeso’s lung cancer drug reduces death risk by 34%, marking the first Chinese drug at ASCO’s top stage in 61 years
Akeso, the Chinese biotechnology company whose drug ivonescimab was dubbed “biotech’s DeepSeek moment” last year, has reported phase three clinical trial results
May 2026
How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat
DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business mo
China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms
Top researchers at private Chinese AI companies are being asked to surrender passports, in a quiet expansion of the controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year. China is widening its informal tra
DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.
DeepSeek has made permanent the 75% price discount on its flagship V4 Pro model. The promotion was originally scheduled to expire on 31 May. The Chinese AI startup’
DeepSeek permanently reduces the price of its flagship V4 model by 75 percent
The lower prices could be aimed at undercutting the competition.
Chinese EV Battery Giant CATL Plans to Invest in DeepSeek
Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology, better known as CATL, is planning to invest in Chinese AI developer DeepSeek’s fundraising, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. CATL’s planned investment comes as it is aggressively stepping up its efforts to sell pow
DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advances
Liang Wenfeng tells prospective investors the Hangzhou lab will prioritise frontier research over revenue, in its first-ever external raise. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told prospective investors
DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts
Liang Wenfeng, billionaire founder and CEO of DeepSeek, is planning to write the biggest check for the startup’s first-ever funding round, which the company now hopes will raise up to 50 billion yuan ($7.35 billion), according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. That would make it t
China’s National AI Fund in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek
China’s national artificial intelligence fund is in talks to invest in DeepSeek in a funding round that is now expected to value the company at more than 300 billion yuan ($44 billion), according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Fl
April 2026
AI did what? ChatGPT's big upgrade, Google’s plans to make AI invisible, DeepSeek’s return and more of the week’s most surprising developments
This week, AI is all about "super" apps, invisible apps and a geopolitical AI race.
‘Extraction and distillation’: US State Department upgrades AI theft accusations to target China’s Deepseek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax
The State Department says Chinese AI companies are 'distilling' US AI models.
DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth
The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the pricin
DeepSeek launches 1.6 trillion parameter V4 on Huawei chips as U.S. escalates AI theft accusations — U.S. gov't alleges IP theft by DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms
DeepSeek on Friday released a preview of its V4 large language model, the Hangzhou-based startup's most powerful to date.
DeepSeek V4 is here: How it compares to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
DeepSeek V4 Preview costs about 85 percent less than GPT-5.5. See how the new open-source model compares to its U.S. rivals.
DeepSeek Drops Cheaper V4 AI as Huawei Jumps In
DeepSeek launches V4 AI model with Huawei chip support, offering lower costs and intensifying global AI competition. The post DeepSeek Drops Cheaper V4 AI as Huawei Jumps In appea
AI Arms Race Accelerates With New Models from OpenAI, DeepSeek and Anthropic
What you should know about the latest AI models, including DeepSeek's V4, OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7.
DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the re
DeepSeek’s Newest Models Take on Silicon Valley at a Fraction of the Cost
The Chinese startup unveiled preview versions of its latest model.
DeepSeek promises its new AI model has 'world-class' reasoning
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DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’
The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowled
DeepSeek Launches New-Generation V4 Models
DeepSeek on Friday launched V4, its highly anticipated new series of open-source AI models with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities. This is the first new-generation model that DeepSeek releas
Tencent, Alibaba in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek at $20 billion-Plus Valuation
Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising for the first time, The Information reported
Tencent, Alibaba in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek at $20 Billion-Plus Valuation
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising for the first time, according to four people with knowledge of the conversations. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management
China’s Moonshot AI Launches New Coding Model Ahead of DeepSeek’s V4 Release
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released a new model that it says demonstrates significant advancements in coding, ahead of DeepSeek’s highly anticipated launch of its new V4 model, which also focuses on coding. Beijing-based Moonshot said its new Kimi K2.6 model is particularly strong in “ ..
Nvidia’s Huang warns DeepSeek running on Huawei chips would be ‘horrible’ for the US
In short: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek optimising its AI models for Huawei’s Ascend chips instead of American hardware would be “a horr
China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking to beef up its financial war chest so it can better compete in the costly battle to develop leading AI models, according to four people familiar with the matter. DeepSeek is owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Fly
DeepSeek’s New AI Model Will Be a Victory for Huawei
When DeepSeek introduces its next-generation model, likely in the next few weeks, it will mark a milestone in China’s yearslong quest for semiconductor self-sufficiency. That’s because the new model, called V4, will be able to run on the latest chips designed by Huawei Technologies. And i
March 2026
DeepSeek’s Chatbot Goes Dark for Over 10 Hours
DeepSeek’s AI chatbot suffered its longest outage since the Chinese company’s flagship model went viral early last year, with users reporting that both its website and app were down for over 10 hours from Sunday night. The service was restored Monday morning. DeepSeek offered no public ...
DeepSeek Outage Shakes AI Service Used by 355M Worldwide
DeepSeek’s longest outage since 2025 disrupted millions, raising concerns about AI reliability and enterprise risk. The post DeepSeek Outage Shakes AI Service Used by 355M Worldwide appe
Xiaomi Unmasks Mystery AI Model Behind DeepSeek Buzz
Learn more about how AI agents are reshaping enterprise workflows in TechRepublic’s latest generative AI coverage. The post Xiaomi Unmasks Mystery AI Model Behind DeepSeek Buzz appear
Mystery AI model Hunter Alpha may be DeepSeek V4 in disguise
Mystery AI model Hunter Alpha may be DeepSeek V4 in disguise
February 2026
DeepSeek Excludes Nvidia, AMD From Early Access to New Model
DeepSeek didn’t give Nvidia or Advanced Micro Devices early access to its upcoming flagship AI model for performance optimization, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. DeepSeek, meanwhile, granted domestic chip companies, including Huawei Technologies, a head start
Anthropic Says Chinese AI Companies Improved Models By ‘Illicitly’ Copying Its Capabilities
Keep in mind that DeepSeek is expected to release a new flagship model any day now.
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models
Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million exchanges using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to advance their models using Claude.
OpenAI Says China’s DeepSeek Continues to Distill U.S. Models
OpenAI wrote a letter to U.S. lawmakers warning that DeepSeek inappropriately uses responses from the U.S. company’s AI models to improve the Chinese firm’s models in a technique known as distillation. “We ha
How Mistral bounced back
One year ago, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sent investors into a frenzy with the release of its high-performing chatbot R1.
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