DeepSeek AI News
Latest news, updates, and announcements from DeepSeek AI.
DeepSeek forms Harness code agent engineering team, signaling pivot from research lab to product company
DeepSeek has confirmed it is building a new team called "Harness" focused on code agent engineering, according to a recruitment post by senior researcher Chen Deli on Chinese social platform Xiaohongs...
DeepSeek launches V4 AI model amidst rising competition. The Chinese AI lab has released its fourth-...
DeepSeek launches V4 AI model amidst rising competition. The Chinese AI lab has released its fourth-generation foundation model, V4, at a time when the global frontier-model race is accelerating. Deta...
DeepSeek seeking $7.4B round at $52B valuation as founder commits $2.9B personally
DeepSeek is pursuing a financing round of approximately RMB 50 billion (~$7.4 billion), which would establish a new single-round record for a Chinese AI company. Founder Liang Wenfeng plans to persona...
DeepSeek-V4 launches with million-token context, Ascend adaptation, and agentic capabilities
DeepSeek released its latest flagship model, DeepSeek-V4, on April 24, 2026, featuring a one-million-token context window, optimized inference on Huawei's Ascend chips, and advanced agentic coding per...
DeepSeek plans first external funding round up to 500 billion yuan (~$68B), valuation up to 3,500 billion yuan (~$483B)
DeepSeek, the Chinese foundation-model lab known for its earlier refusal of outside capital, is planning its first external fundraising round. The company is seeking up to 500 billion yuan (~$68 billi...
DeepSeek nears first external fundraising at $50B valuation, backed by China Big Fund III and Tencent
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based frontier AI lab that stunned the industry with its R1 reasoning model at training costs far below US peers, is close to closing its first external fundraising round at a v...
Redis founder builds dedicated inference engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash
Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), the creator of Redis, has released ds4.c, a dedicated local inference engine written in C and Apple's Metal API that is optimized exclusively for DeepSeek V4 Flash, the...
DeepSeek seeks funding at reported $45B valuation
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab known for its cost-efficient large language models and open-weight releases, is seeking external funding at a reported $45 billion valuation, according to Tech in Asia. Th...
DeepSeek reportedly seeks first external funding round at $45 billion valuation with Big Fund.
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab known for its open-weight foundation models, is in talks for its first external fundraising round, led by China's state-backed Big Fund (National Integrated Circuit Indust...
DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round.
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab behind the cost-efficient open-weight LLM that shocked the industry in early 2025, is in talks to raise its first venture capital round at a valuation that has reportedly...
DeepSeek-TUI coding agent hits 2.3k GitHub stars, positioning as open-source Claude Code alternative
An unofficial terminal-based coding agent built on DeepSeek V4, called DeepSeek-TUI, gained 2.3k GitHub stars in early May 2026 and trended on GitHub. Developed by independent US creator Hunter Bown,...
DeepSeek V4 Preview: 1.6 Trillion Parameters, Open-Weight Challenge to Frontier Labs
DeepSeek has released the preview of its V4 model, a 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture trained on 32-33 trillion tokens, supporting a 1 million-token context window by default acr...
DeepSeek-V4 Preview Model Launches with 1M Token Context Window, Open-Sourced
DeepSeek announced the launch of its DeepSeek-V4 preview model on April 24, 2025. The new series, available in Pro and Flash variants, supports a 1 million token context window and is released as open...
DeepSeek seeks first external funding to retain talent with stock options
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab behind the R1 reasoning model that shook global markets in early 2025, is pursuing its first external equity raise. According to the Financial Times, the company is in tal...
DeepSeek V4 adopted by AI agent OpenClaw amid Huawei chip collaboration scrutiny
OpenClaw has added DeepSeek's V4 Flash as its default model and also integrated V4 Pro, alongside features like Google Meet support, in an update that optimizes multi-step task consistency. The adopti...
DeepSeek unveils V4 model with low-cost high-performance AI strategy
DeepSeek has released a preview version of its V4 large language model, available in Pro and Flash variants, continuing its open-source approach. The company claims the model achieves strong agent-bas...
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DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE model on NVIDIA NIM
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, now available via NVIDIA NIM for inference deployment. The model joins DeepSeek-V4-Flash and others in the NVI...
DeepSeek releases new AI model V4 with drastically reduced costs
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4, available in two variants: V4-Pro (1.6 trillion parameters) and V4-Flash (284 billion parameters). The model supports a context length of one million...
DeepSeek releases V4-Pro and V4-Flash models with multi-chip support
DeepSeek today unveiled DeepSeek-V4-Pro, a 1.86-trillion-parameter flagship model, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, a 284-billion-parameter efficient MoE model. The V4-Flash uses hybrid attention mechanisms (CS...
DeepSeek unveils V4 model using Huawei chips, undercuts US labs on price.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released its V4 family of large language models, consisting of V4-Pro (1.6 trillion parameters) and V4-Flash, trained on Huawei's Ascend AI processors. The Pro version...