Tag: deepseek
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DeepSeek’s Revenue Just Doubled to a Billion a Year
DeepSeek just told investors its annualized revenue run rate has crossed a billion dollars, more than double what it was reporting only a few months ago. CEO Liang Wenfeng shared the number in a recent investor meeting, and it lines up with a much bigger move: the company is finalizing a second funding round of…
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Beijing Just Turned Its Regulators on DeepSeek
Anthropic put out a report on September 10 accusing seven Chinese AI labs of quietly running their traffic through Claude, basically having their own users chat with Claude by proxy so they could scrape the outputs and train on them without anyone knowing. Anthropic says Moonshot alone routed more than 23 million exchanges through over…
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DeepSeek Just Made Its Own Flagship Model Obsolete
DeepSeek dropped a new model today, and the real story here is not some benchmark chart. It is how much cheaper and faster they made it while still climbing that chart. V4.1 Flash is the small, fast member of DeepSeek’s new model family, and it can now actually look at images, not just read text.…
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A Lab You’ve Never Heard Of Just Matched Opus 4.8
DeepSeek quietly added a new model to its API, and it’s worth pausing on. V4-Flash-Vision-Exp takes the company’s existing V4-Flash model and gives it eyes. Send it an image alongside your text in the same request, and it reasons over both together instead of bolting a separate vision step onto the back end. The bigger…
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DeepSeek Just Made Its Cheap AI a Lot More Expensive
DeepSeek built its name by being the cheap option. That chapter is closing. The company is raising prices across its V4 lineup, with the increases taking effect on August 16. Peak hour pricing on DeepSeek V4 Flash is jumping to $1.32 per million output tokens, more than four times what it cost before. Off peak…
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DeepSeek Reopens Its $8B Round and Buys Into Robots
DeepSeek paused its own funding round last month after its founder got frustrated over leaked comments he made to investors. That round is back open now, and it came back bigger and stranger than before. The company is going after roughly $8 billion at a valuation near $74 billion, according to Bloomberg. Monolith Management, an…
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A Hacker Let an AI Model Run Its Own Cyberattacks
Security researchers at Unit 42 just documented something that reads like a warning shot. A Chinese speaking hacker wired the DeepSeek model into an open source tool called Hermes Agent, then ran the whole operation from Telegram, mostly hands off. The AI did the heavy lifting. It generated search queries to find exposed servers, assessed…
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A Chinese Lab Just Undercut Everyone’s AI Prices Again
DeepSeek just put its V4-Flash model into public beta through its API, and the pricing is the part that should get your attention. It’s running at 14 cents per million input tokens with a full million-token context window. That undercuts OpenAI’s newly discounted budget tier by roughly a third, and it’s a fraction of what…
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China’s Building Its Own AI Chips Because America Won’t Let It Buy Them
DeepSeek, one of China’s largest AI labs, is developing its own AI chip for inference and the context is everything. The US bans Chinese companies from accessing the most advanced chip foundries and has cut China’s access to high-bandwidth memory, the thing you actually need to run inference at any reasonable speed. So China’s best…
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Open Source Just Won the Download Race
Something shifted in June 2026. The open-source models started winning. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the trending model on Hugging Face right now. Qwen is up there. Llama. Gemma. Chinese models hold five of the top ten download slots, the highest concentration on the record. One week after the frontier wave dropped, open-weight models are not…