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A report from The Information says DeepSeek's annualised revenue run rate has passed $1bn, more than double the level of a few months ago, helped by a sharp API price increase and steady demand for its models.

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DeepSeek published a paper titled DeepSeek Elastic Compute describing its platform for training AI agents at scale, which runs about 3 million isolated sandboxes a day and 380,000 at once.

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China's Cyberspace Administration is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over user data that may have reached Anthropic, according to The Information, with regulators questioning staff at both companies.

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Reuters

DeepSeek will be among the companies briefing the UN Security Council on the risks of artificial intelligence this week, according to two sources, as world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly in New York.

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South China Morning Post

A DeepSeek engineer behind the company's V4.1 models publicly criticized Anthropic and OpenAI over calls to 'pace' AI development, saying he does not trust them to keep cutting-edge AI open and affordable. The remarks intensified debate in China ahead of the Xi-Trump meeting.

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Forbes

Forbes coverage of DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash model and its aggressive API pricing, including cached input at $0.003 per million tokens. The piece discusses the cost pressure this places on rivals and on memory-chip demand.

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Reuters

DeepSeek plans to hire Yan Wentao as CFO as the startup prepares for a possible IPO and expands fundraising and investment in talent, data center capacity and semiconductors.

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Bloomberg

Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek's latest low-cost AI model raised doubts about the strength of memory demand, sending shares of Samsung and SK Hynix down more than 3%. The article centers on how DeepSeek's reduced memory requirements are reshaping investor expectations.

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CNBC

Anthropic said it detected and disrupted unauthorized large-scale efforts by China-based AI labs including Alibaba, Moonshot and DeepSeek to train their models using Claude outputs, in what it described as illicit distillation.

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TechCrunch

Anthropic published a report alleging large-scale 'distillation' campaigns by Chinese AI labs, naming DeepSeek among the companies accused of harvesting capabilities from Claude. Roughly 200 million exchanges were attributed to five campaigns across several labs.

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Bloomberg

Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek's new V4.1 Flash model charges as little as a fraction of a cent per million tokens, intensifying pressure on rivals such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Z.AI.

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Reuters

DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, described as the smallest model in its new architecture family and designed for greater capability, faster inference and higher throughput, as the company prepares for a possible STAR Market IPO.

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South China Morning Post

DeepSeek released its V4.1 Flash model, claiming it outperforms its previous flagship while cutting inference costs and boosting speeds using a new Causal-Encoder-Decoder Mixture-of-Experts architecture. The launch is framed as the latest move in China's AI price-and-performance competition.

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South China Morning Post

DeepSeek has hired underwriters including Citic Securities to prepare a domestic IPO on Shanghai's Star Market, aiming to begin the process this year. The listing would follow a pre-IPO financing round that could value the company at about US$74 billion.

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Bloomberg

US security agencies accused Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI of systematically extracting proprietary knowledge from American companies via distillation, warning Silicon Valley developers to protect their work.

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South China Morning Post

DeepSeek is recruiting about 150 senior backend engineers to overhaul infrastructure strained by surging user demand and compute-heavy AI agents, signaling its evolution into a high-volume platform.

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The Next Web covers DeepSeek's reported plan to order Huawei Ascend chips for a ~1GW data center, highlighting the strategic shift away from Nvidia as U.S. export restrictions persist.

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Bloomberg

Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek is planning a large order of Huawei AI chips for a new data center in Inner Mongolia, part of China's push to reduce dependence on Nvidia amid export restrictions.

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CNBC

A CNBC analysis of DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's quant fund High-Flyer and how DeepSeek is now seeking outside capital amid growing funding needs.

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South China Morning Post

DeepSeek is close to closing a new funding round that would value the company at about $74 billion, raising roughly 50 billion yuan from investors including existing backers and new funds.

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South China Morning Post

Chinese open-weight models, led by DeepSeek, reached a record 62% share of token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway; Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch highlighted the shift away from proprietary models.

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DeepSeek launched its Harness agentic coding tool and raised API prices for V4 Pro and V4 Flash, with peak rates quadrupling.

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SiliconANGLE

DeepSeek debuted V4 Flash Vision Exp, an experimental multimodal model in its V4 series, available via its paid developer platform. The model improved on V4 Flash in image analysis and matched or beat Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on several visual benchmarks.

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DeepSeek API Docs

DeepSeek launched the experimental multimodal model V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on its API platform, providing image understanding alongside V4-Flash text capabilities, and also introduced a Files API.

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Bloomberg

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, claiming performance near Anthropic's Opus 4.8.

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