AI Briefing#deepseek
The latest AI and developer news about #deepseek, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #deepseek, with the original source and a short summary.
DeepSeek is permanently cutting the price of its flagship AI model by 75%.
DeepSeek has confirmed the 75% discounted price for the V4-Pro API as the permanent official price.
DeepSeek has permanently cut DeepSeek-V4-Pro API prices to 1/4 of the previous level and significantly lowered cache hit prices as well.
DeepSeek announced that it is permanently applying a 75% discount to v4 Pro model pricing.
DeepSeek is permanently applying a 75% discount to its V4 Pro model.
DeepSeek plans to secure investment of approximately $10.29 billion and focus on open-source AI development and achieving AGI.
DeepSeek is pursuing a grand strategy that goes beyond simply selling models, aiming to build a $10 trillion Chinese AI hardware ecosystem.
DeepSeek has formed a Harness team in Beijing and started hiring to develop a new coding agent, DeepSeek Code.
Chinese AI companies offer similar performance at 1/9th the price of US models, threatening the IPO valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Analyzing the release cadence of major AI models showed that deployment speed accelerating past the 'half-life' framing was the more accurate finding.
A vulnerability has been reported in which entering specific characters in DeepSeek can expose other users' conversations.
DeepSeek R2 has been released as open source, recording performance on par with GPT-4o.
DeepSeek V4 Pro scored a middling 77, while Flash's API flaw surfaced even at just 2 cents.
A terminal coding agent based on DeepSeek V4 has been released.
DeepSeek broke off investment negotiations with Alibaba, prioritizing independence.
The official DeepSeek V4 paper has been released, adding FP4 QAT and stabilization techniques.
DeepSeek is pursuing a RMB 50 billion investment round and preparing to unveil V4.1.
ds4.c introduces a Metal-only inference engine and server built specifically for DeepSeek V4 Flash.
DeepSeek is discussing a $45 billion valuation in its first external funding round led by China's Big Fund.
DeepSeek is pursuing fundraising at a valuation of roughly $50 billion from Chinese government-backed investors.
DeepSeek V4 Pro delivered GPT-5.2-level performance on agentic benchmarks while costing 17 times less.
A tool that replaces Claude Code CLI's backend with DeepSeek and others to cut agent costs by up to 17x.
It's a tool that preserves Claude Code's agentic capabilities while cutting costs by 17x using DeepSeek and other models.
CAISI evaluated DeepSeek V4 and found it to be China's top model, but about 8 months behind the US frontier.