DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s Upcoming V4 Pro Release Echoes Last Year’s AI Sell-Off
August 12, 2026 – The United States continues to treat its artificial intelligence sector as a matter of national destiny, maintaining a lead in foundational large language models. However, Chinese open-source AI pioneer DeepSeek is closing the gap at a breakneck pace. With the impending official release of the V4 Pro model and its accompanying…
DeepSeek V4 Flash’s 8 Trillion Token Milestone: A Strategic Execution Line for Global AI Competitors
August 4, 2026 – DeepSeek V4 Flash has officially been in the market for four days, and its adoption rate is skyrocketing thanks to a significant performance boost. On OpenCode alone, the model processed a staggering 8 trillion tokens in a single day. According to OpenCode’s official announcement, this massive 8 trillion token milestone was…
DeepSeek Reportedly Plans 1GW AI Data Center Expansion in Inner Mongolia
July 31, 2026 – DeepSeek is reportedly preparing a major expansion of its AI computing infrastructure by developing a large-scale data center in Inner Mongolia, signaling the Chinese startup’s growing investment in high-performance AI capacity. According to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter, the company intends to deploy approximately 1 gigawatt (GW)…
DeepSeek’s Valuation Soars Close to $45B, National Big Fund Set to Lead Its First – Round Funding
May 7, 2026 – According to sources familiar with the matter, as reported by the Financial Times, China’s National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, commonly known as the Big Fund, is in discussions to lead a new round of funding for DeepSeek. Once this financing round is completed, the company’s valuation is projected to soar…
DeepSeek Rolls Out Image Recognition Mode in Grayscale: Filling the Multimodal Void
April 30, 2026 – DeepSeek is currently conducting grayscale testing of an image recognition mode on both its web and app platforms. This new feature allows users to upload images, enabling DeepSeek to comprehend, describe, and analyze the content, thereby filling a gap in its multimodal capabilities. Positioned alongside the rapid mode and expert mode…
DeepSeek Back Online After Over 12-Hour Outage Cripples Services
March 30, 2026 – DeepSeek’s servers are now back online, allowing users to resume their conversations through both the web platform and the mobile app without any issues. The service disruption began around 10 p.m. on March 29 and lasted for over 12 hours, causing widespread access problems across the platform. During this period, users…
NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun Addresses DeepSeek Impact: Compute Demand Soars, AI Chip Shortage Worsens
March 20, 2025 – During the annual GTC 2025 developers’ conference, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, asserted that the unveiling of the DeepSeek-R1 model would only escalate the demand for computing infrastructure, dismissing the notion of a potential chip demand decline as unfounded. In a Q&A session with financial analysts, Huang emphasized, “The good news…
OpenAI CEO Altman Acknowledges DeepSeek’s Performance, Sees Them as Worthy Competitors
February 13, 2025 – In a recent interview with The Times Tech Podcast on Tuesday local time, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, expressed his acknowledgment of the technological prowess of Chinese AI company DeepSeek. He praised their “good performance” in developing a chatbot that can now compete with ChatGPT. Altman revealed that he has…
AGI on the Horizon? DeepMind CEO Calls DeepSeek China’s Finest, Predicts 5-Year Timeline”
February 10, 2025 – Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google-owned DeepMind, has expressed high praise for Chinese AI company Deepseek on Sunday. Hassabis remarked that Deepseek’s AI model is potentially “what I consider to be one of the finest works to emerge from China.” Nevertheless, he emphasized that despite the model’s impressive engineering prowess and…
Amazon CEO Predicts Lower AI Costs Thanks to DeepSeek and Similar Models
February 7, 2025 – In a recent conference call with analysts, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared his predictions for the future of artificial intelligence, specifically pointing to a significant drop in the cost of AI inference. This reduction, he believes, will pave the way for businesses to more easily integrate other applications with reasoning and…
