12 stories on DeepSeek since May 4, 2026, newest first, with 1 funding round from the tracker.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 77.3 on agentic coding vs Anthropic's 66.1, cutting the US-China AI gap to a record-low 3% on LiveBench benchmarks.
Unitree Robotics prices its $9 billion Shanghai IPO with DeepSeek and Tencent as backers, as the only profitable humanoid maker enters public markets.
Unitree priced China's first humanoid robot IPO at $904M on August 6, while DeepSeek invested $20.8M to jointly develop AI models for robots.
DeepSeek raises $7.4 billion at up to a $59 billion valuation, its first ever outside round, as Tencent, CATL, and state funds back China's AI champion.
DeepSeek V4-Pro made its 75% price cut permanent at $0.87 per million tokens, a frontier-grade coding model that undercuts US labs with open weights.
DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in its first outside round at up to a $59 billion valuation, with Tencent and CATL backing China self-funded AI lab.
DeepSeek V4 makes its 75 percent price cut permanent at 0.435 per million input tokens, matching GPT-5.5 on agentic coding under an open MIT license.
DeepSeek's April 24 release: a 1.6T-parameter MIT-licensed model scoring 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $3.48 per million output tokens versus Claude's $25.
Anthropic's February 2026 disclosure revealed 16M unauthorized API exchanges by DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot, forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to share threat intelligence for the first time.
DeepSeek V4 Flash, a 284B MoE model activating just 13B parameters per token at $0.14 per million inputs, has permanently reset the economics of AI inference and exposed the fragility of mid-tier pricing models.
DeepSeek V4-Pro with 1.6T parameters trained on Huawei Ascend chips at $3.48/million tokens challenges the core logic of US AI chip export controls.
The US government CAISI unit found DeepSeek V4 Pro lags US frontier AI by 8 months while DeepSeek claims a 2-month gap, a discrepancy that reveals a deeper battle over who controls official AI capability measurement.