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DeepSeek nears US$7b haul in first-ever funding round, with backing from Tencent, CATL

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is finalising its first external fundraising round, securing over 50 billion yuan (US$7.4 billion) at a valuation of just under US$60 billion, ...
Yahoo Finance

DeepSeek slated to raise $7 billion in maiden funding round, sources say

June 3 (Reuters) - DeepSeek, China's best-known AI startup, is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors including Tencent Holdings and CATL, people ...
Memeburn

DeepSeek vs OpenAI: The $10B AGI Race Begins

DeepSeek just raised the stakes in the global AGI race with a $10 billion funding round and a clear message: research over revenue. Here is how the Chinese AI lab's open-source gamble stacks up ...
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 ...
Android

DeepSeek Makes Aggressive 75% Price Cut to Weaponize Western AI Rate Limit Anger

Initially, DeepSeek framed the discount as a short-term promotional campaign in April. However, given the user backlash against increasingly restrictive Western AI chatbots, the company has made the ...
Reuters

DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50 billion in first fundraising, sources say

China's newly founded national AI fund to lead DeepSeek fundraising, source says DeepSeek maiden fundraising reverses years-long strategy of rejecting outside funding Fundraising will fuel computing ...
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 ...
Euronews

China’s DeepSeek releases new AI model V4. Here’s everything to know as the AI race speeds up

China’s AI startup is back a year after it stirred up the AI industry with ‘world-leading’ processing power at a fraction of the cost of other models. The Chinese artificial intelligence company ...
Reuters

DeepSeek-V4, the Chinese AI model adapted for Huawei chips

BEIJING, April 24 (Reuters) - Chinese startup DeepSeek on Friday released a preview version of V4, its new artificial intelligence model adapted to run on Huawei chips, marking another step in China's ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that ...