DeepSeek in the Media
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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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