DeepSeek Retakes OpenCode Top Spot as GLM Goes Paid
DeepSeek retook OpenCode's daily usage lead the moment GLM-5.3-Flash started charging, ending its 41-trillion-token free run.
DeepSeek News and Analysis
41 verified stories covering DeepSeek, product updates and industry developments.
DeepSeek's Losses Widen to ¥715M Despite ¥475M Revenue
DeepSeek made ¥475M in revenue but lost ¥715M in early 2026, as an 82.9% API margin gets erased by free-tier subsidies and a new peak-pricing scheme.
DeepSeek launches experimental vision model, caps images at 384 tokens
DeepSeek's new deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp caps every image at 384 tokens with no extra vision fee, effectively putting a ceiling on GUI agent screenshot costs.
Liquid AI Cuts Decoding Latency 3.18x With a 300M Draft Model
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-DSpark draft models bring speculative decoding to three on-device models, cutting decoding latency up to 3.18x with identical outputs.
H20 Runs DeepSeek V4-Pro at 70% of B300 Speed
LMSYS's DeepSeek-V4-Pro benchmarks show Nvidia's China-market H20 chip closing the decode-speed gap with the flagship B300 to just 1.42x.
DeepSeek Pro adds 384K output
DeepSeek's V4 Pro API now points to the 0813 version, pairing a 1M-token context and 384K output ceiling with a clear price warning.
DeepSeek Opens the Final V4-Flash API
DeepSeek put V4-Flash 0731 into API beta, added Responses API support for Codex, and reported large agent-benchmark gains from post-training alone.
DeepSeek reportedly develops its own inference chip
DeepSeek reportedly develops its own inference chip is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
Check Point Shows DeepSeek-Assisted Browser Ransomware
Check Point says a DeepSeek-generated sample can be turned into browser-only ransomware by abusing Chrome’s File System Access API.
DeepSeek Adds Peak-Hour Pricing for V4 API
DeepSeek plans a mid-July V4 release and will double API prices during two China workday peak windows to smooth demand.
DeepSeek opens DSpark for faster inference
DeepSeek and Peking University open sourced DSpark, an inference framework that raises generation speed by 60% to 85% and can lift single-GPU throughput as much as 6.6 times.
Lindy swaps Claude for DeepSeek and says costs fell by 90%
Lindy swaps Claude for DeepSeek and says costs fell by 90%
DeepSeek brings peak-and-off-peak pricing to model APIs
DeepSeek brings peak-and-off-peak pricing to model APIs
US reportedly delayed DeepSeek blacklist for eight months
The case shows how export controls can become trade bargaining chips even when security agencies have already made their case.
DeepSeek's $7.4B round locks control with Liang and the state
The financing structure accepts outside capital while keeping voting power away from commercial investors.
DeepSeek raises $7.4B without giving investors control
DeepSeek closed its first outside round at a valuation above $50 billion, but commercial backers get no voting power.
Chinese models reset the floor for AI pricing
Enterprise workload estimates show Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM separated by nearly 9x in cost, forcing OpenAI and Anthropic toward price pressure.
DeepSeek rides the agent token boom
Ramp and OpenRouter data show DeepSeek usage accelerating as long-running coding and data agents make token price a first-order enterprise cost.
DeepSeek grows fastest among US SaaS buyers
Ramp data shows DeepSeek leading SaaS vendors by relative growth among US firms, even though its terms say personal data may be stored in China.
DeepSeek Nears a 50 Billion Yuan Round, With Liang Wenfeng Putting In 20 Billion
Reuters says DeepSeek’s first major financing could value the company at 350 billion to 400 billion yuan while its founder remains the largest investor.
China Restricts Overseas Travel for Top AI Talent at Alibaba, DeepSeek
China is tightening controls on overseas travel for key AI personnel at private firms like Alibaba and DeepSeek, requiring government approval before leaving the country.
DeepSeek Makes V4-Pro Discount Permanent, Slashing Prices 75%
DeepSeek has permanently set V4-Pro API prices at 75% off, locking in $0.87 per million output tokens and challenging rivals.
China’s Big Fund Puts DeepSeek on the Strategic-AI Map
DeepSeek is reportedly discussing a first funding round led by China’s national chip fund, pushing its valuation toward $45 billion and tying its next phase to domestic compute.
US State Department puts DeepSeek and other Chinese AI models on the diplomatic table
The US State Department sent a diplomatic cable on April 24 instructing embassies worldwide to warn host governments that Chinese AI companies are systematically "extracting and distilling" models from US labs, naming DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax.
DeepSeek V4 Launches, Market Reaction Muted
DeepSeek released its V4 series on April 24, featuring a 1.6-trillion-parameter Pro model, but markets showed little reaction compared to last year's shock. Analysts say the surprise factor has faded as China's open-source AI output becomes routine.
DeepSeek Cuts V4-Pro Price by 75% Within 72 Hours of Launch
DeepSeek slashed the price of its V4-Pro model by 75% and cut cache-hit pricing across its entire API to one-tenth, just 72 hours after the preview release, intensifying the AI price war.
DeepSeek V4 Only Released as Preview, Waiting for Huawei 950PR Mass Production
DeepSeek released V4 Flash and V4 Pro as preview versions on April 24, with the full release delayed until the second half of 2026 due to Huawei's Ascend 950PR chips not yet being ready for mass production.
DeepSeek V4 Launches: 1.6 Trillion Parameters, 8x Cheaper Than GPT-5.5
DeepSeek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT license, achieving top competitive programming scores while pricing output at $3.48/M — a fraction of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7.
DeepSeek Seeks First External Funding Round, Targeting at Least $300 Million at Over $10 Billion Valuation
DeepSeek is seeking its first-ever external funding round, targeting at least $300 million at a valuation exceeding $10 billion, according to four anonymous informed sources. The move marks a major shift for the AI lab, which had long rejected outside investment.
DeepSeek V3.2 Switches to Sparse Attention, Halving Inference Costs
DeepSeek quietly released V3.2 with a sparse attention mechanism called DSA, cutting computational complexity from O(L²) to O(Lk) and slashing API prices to $0.28/M input and $0.42/M output, while maintaining comparable benchmark performance.
Three AI Giants Form Alliance, Accuse DeepSeek and Others of Stealing 16 Million Conversations
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have joined forces to combat distillation attacks, accusing Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to extract over 16 million interactions from Claude.
DeepSeek Launches Fast and Expert Chat Modes
DeepSeek has quietly introduced two new chat modes, Instant and Expert, with the Expert mode offering higher quality for complex tasks but removing file upload support, hinting at a tiered service structure ahead of the anticipated V4 release.
DeepSeek V4 Runs on Huawei Chips
DeepSeek is set to release V4, a trillion-parameter MoE model running on Huawei's Ascend 950PR chips, marking the first frontier AI model built entirely for a domestic Chinese chip architecture and a potential shift away from NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem.
DeepSeek Launches Math Proof Model Prover-V2
DeepSeek has released Prover-V2, a specialized model for automated theorem proving in the Lean 4 formal verification system, achieving near state-of-the-art results on the miniF2F benchmark.
Reasoning Model Showdown: o-Series, R1, Gemini — Which Thinks Better?
A comprehensive comparison of major AI reasoning models from OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, and Anthropic, examining their approaches, trade-offs between depth and speed, and the open-source vs. closed-source landscape.
DeepSeek V4 and Qwen 3.5 Open-Source Models Drive Down Prices
DeepSeek V4 and Qwen 3.5/3.6 are reshaping the AI market with massive context windows, native multimodality, and aggressive pricing, pushing open-source models from a 1% to a 15% global share in one year.
DeepSeek V4 vs Qwen 3.5: Two Chinese Open-Source Models Battle for the Same Market
DeepSeek V4 and Qwen 3.5 (also labeled Qwen 3.6-Plus) are two Chinese open-source AI models competing on cost and capability, challenging expensive closed-source giants with trillion-parameter scale, massive context windows, and rock-bottom API pricing.
DeepSeek's Low-Cost Large Model Training Explained
DeepSeek has achieved legendary cost efficiency in training large AI models, with V3 costing about $5.5 million and R1 GPU usage at roughly $294,000, compared to U.S. competitors spending $100 million to $1 billion for similar-scale models.
DeepSeek V3.1 Merges General and Reasoning Models
DeepSeek V3.1 is the company's first hybrid model, combining the capabilities of the general-purpose V3 and the reasoning-focused R1 into a single architecture.
DeepSeek open-sources its R1 reasoning model
DeepSeek released the R1 reasoning model as open source in January 2026, achieving scores comparable to OpenAI's o1 on math, code, and logic benchmarks while its distilled 32B variant outperformed o1-mini on several tests.
DeepSeek V3: 671B Parameters, Only 37B Activated
DeepSeek V3 uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 671B total parameters but only 37B activated per token, achieving top-tier open-source benchmark scores while costing just $5.5 million to train.