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DeepSeek unveils V4 Preview with stronger agent capabilities and 1M-token context, as reports emerge...
DeepSeek unveils V4 Preview with stronger agent capabilities and 1M-token context, as reports emerge of potential funding from Tencent and Alibaba at a $200 billion+ valuation. Why it matters: DeepSee...
DeepSeek V4 launches on Huawei Ascend, opens first funding round amid talent exodus
DeepSeek has released V4, a MoE language model with 1.6T total parameters and 1M context window, trained on Huawei Ascend rather than Nvidia GPUs after a major training failure in mid-2025. The model...
DeepSeek launches V4 AI model with 1 million token context window to rival OpenAI
DeepSeek has released V4, a new AI foundation model featuring a 1-million-token context window, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI's offerings. The model is the latest from the Chinese AI...
DeepSeek Valuation Surges to $20 Billion as Tech Giants Enter Investment Discussions
DeepSeek is reportedly in negotiations with major technology firms Tencent and Alibaba regarding potential investment. According to market sources, the company's valuation has doubled from an initial...
DeepSeek reportedly considering first external fundraising as AI competition intensifies.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly weighing its first round of external funding. To date, the company has relied on financial backing from its parent organization, the hedge fund High-Flyer Cap...
DeepSeek Eyes $300 Million Funding Round at $10 Billion Valuation
DeepSeek, a prominent model lab, is reportedly pursuing its first round of external financing. The company is seeking at least $300 million in capital, which would establish a minimum valuation of $10...
DeepSeek Seeks $300 Million in First External Funding Round at $10 Billion Valuation
DeepSeek is reportedly seeking at least $300 million in its first round of external financing, which would value the company at a minimum of $10 billion. Previously supported by High-Flyer Quant, the...
DeepSeek Seeks First External Funding at Over $10 Billion Valuation Amidst Core Talent Drain
DeepSeek, a major Chinese AI model company, is in talks with investors for its first external equity financing round. The company aims to raise no less than $300 million at a valuation of at least $10...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns optimized DeepSeek models on Huawei Ascend chips pose strategic threat to US AI leadership.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated on the Dwarkesh Podcast that if Chinese AI lab DeepSeek optimizes its upcoming V4 foundation model for Huawei Technologies' Ascend 950PR processors, it would represent '...
DeepSeek’s V4 model, slated for release in weeks, packs ~1 trillion parameters, multimodal capabilit...
DeepSeek’s V4 model, slated for release in weeks, packs ~1 trillion parameters, multimodal capabilities and a $0.30 /MTok pricing. Reports confirm it will run on Huawei’s Ascend 950PR chips, marking a...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is preparing to launch V4, its first multimodal model since R1 wiped nea...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is preparing to launch V4, its first multimodal model since R1 wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia's market value in January 2025. The new model processes text, images, an...
ByteDance just released Doubao 2.0, positioning China's most popular AI chatbot with 155 million wee...
ByteDance just released Doubao 2.0, positioning China's most popular AI chatbot with 155 million weekly active users for the 'agent era' of autonomous AI systems. The upgrade claims GPT-5.2-level reas...
One year after the DeepSeek moment, China has overtaken the U.S. in the global open-source AI market...
One year after the DeepSeek moment, China has overtaken the U.S. in the global open-source AI market, claiming a 17.1% share of model downloads vs. the U.S. at 15.8%. This shift is led by Alibaba's Qw...
Chinese regulators granted DeepSeek conditional access to Nvidia H200 chips, joining ByteDance and A...
Chinese regulators granted DeepSeek conditional access to Nvidia H200 chips, joining ByteDance and Alibaba in a pool cleared for over 400,000 units. This shift prioritizes firms capable of maximizing...
DeepSeek has emerged as a dark horse in the AI sector, securing a 4% global market share by offering...
DeepSeek has emerged as a dark horse in the AI sector, securing a 4% global market share by offering high-performance models at roughly 1/27th the cost of Western alternatives. This open-source strate...
DeepSeek has launched its V3.2 model series, reaching parity with GPT-5 and Gemini 3.0 Pro through a...
DeepSeek has launched its V3.2 model series, reaching parity with GPT-5 and Gemini 3.0 Pro through an open-weight framework. The 685B parameter Mixture-of-Experts system achieved gold-medal status in...
DeepSeek is set to launch its next-generation AI model, V4, in mid-February 2026 with a focus on eli...
DeepSeek is set to launch its next-generation AI model, V4, in mid-February 2026 with a focus on elite coding capabilities. Internal tests suggest V4 could surpass rivals like Anthropic Claude Opus 4....
DeepSeek released Math-V2, the first open-source AI model to achieve a gold medal score at the Inter...
DeepSeek released Math-V2, the first open-source AI model to achieve a gold medal score at the International Mathematical Olympiad. The model solved 5 of 6 IMO 2025 problems and scored 118/120 on the...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly developing a new AI model with banned Nvidia Blackwell chi...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly developing a new AI model with banned Nvidia Blackwell chips. These advanced semiconductors were allegedly smuggled into China through third countries, highli...
DeepSeek released V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, 685B-parameter open-source models matching GPT-5 on reason...
DeepSeek released V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, 685B-parameter open-source models matching GPT-5 on reasoning benchmarks and hitting IMO gold in math tasks. 🚀 Sparse attention cuts inference costs 50% with...