China’s DeepSeek reportedly raises $7.4B in funding at $50B+ valuation

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek has reportedly raised more than 50 billion yuan, or $7.4 billion, in new funding ...
Bloomberg L.P.

DeepSeek To Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

DeepSeek said it will make permanent a steep discount on its flagship V4‑Pro model, maintaining prices for developers at a quarter of their original level. In a statement on its website, DeepSeek ...
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DeepSeek Is Building Its Own Claude Code. Beijing Wants the Whole Stack

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DeepSeek is recruiting a "Code Harness" team in Beijing to build a native agentic coding tool—a direct rival to Anthropic's ...
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The Next Web

DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth

The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the ...
CNET

AI Arms Race Accelerates With New Models from OpenAI, DeepSeek and Anthropic

What you should know about the latest AI models, including DeepSeek's V4, OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7. Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital culture and other topics for outlets ...
Boston Herald

China’s DeepSeek rolls out a long-anticipated update of its AI model

HONG KONG (AP) — DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update Friday as the AI rivalry between China ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s DeepSeek Launches Long-Awaited AI Model

SINGAPORE—China’s DeepSeek released a new artificial-intelligence model, breaking months of silence from one of the country’s most closely watched AI labs. The long-awaited update to its V4 flagship ...
The Next Web

DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world ...
CNBC

China's DeepSeek releases preview of long-awaited V4 model as AI race intensifies

DeepSeek launched a preview of its V4 model, expanding its open-source AI lineup. Its earlier R1 model disrupted markets with strong performance at a lower cost. Rising Chinese competition intensified ...
MIT Technology Review

Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters

The long-awaited V4 is more efficient and a win for Chinese chipmakers. On April 24, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. The model can process much ...
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China’s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?

China’s DeepSeek unveiled a preview version of its much-anticipated new model on Friday, promising to rival models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google a year after the then little-known start up took ...