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DeepSeek is an AI company. Chinese AI research lab creating high-performance open-source language models including DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1. This page tracks 236 recent news stories about DeepSeek, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7 billion in its first-ever funding round, a striking validation of its technical prowess that threatens to upend Silicon Valley's dominance in artificial intelligence development. The valuation, which sources have not disclosed but would likely place the company among the world's most valuable startups, underscores how quickly Beijing's AI ambitions are closing the gap with American competitors—and how little capital appears necessary to challenge OpenAI and other Western leaders. The fundraising, if completed, would signal a decisive shift in global AI investment patterns away from the U.S. and toward China, even as American policymakers have scrambled to restrict Beijing's access to advanced semiconductors.

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People around the world see a winner on AI — and it’s not the US

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No One is Winning the AI Race

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DeepSeek Will Raise Your Children
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DeepSeek Will Raise Your Children

by Shimon — AGI is coming for your job. School won’t prepare you for it. But that’s not even the biggest problem.

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The Direction of AI in 2026: Performance, Cost, and the End of One Model for Everything

Six months ago, I could tell you which model to use for almost any job, and I would have said it with confidence. Today I hedge, and so… Continue reading on Medium »

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Discussions

DeepSeek v4 Pro is too big for such a "midrange" performance, or am I missing something?

Hi. DeepSeek v4 Pro has 1.6T parameters, probably the largest in open models, or at least one of the largest. Yet it's not the best/most performance open model, considering a wide variety of...

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Discussion on why we lagging behind
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Discussion on why we lagging behind

Guys, today you all heard the news about the Fable 5 ban across the globe. Well, we all have questions: what if this trend continues for all frontier models moving forward? Why is India lagging...

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DeepSeek V4 and Huawei Ascend 950DT: The Co-Designed Chip That Cut AI Inference Costs by 75%

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AI challenges Paul the Octopus for 2026 World Cup prediction
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AI challenges Paul the Octopus for 2026 World Cup prediction

This year's fad for non-human answers recalls Paul the Octopus, the cephalopod who divined winning teams by eating from food containers marked with their flags during the 2010 contest.

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You can run Deepseek 4 flash on mac (M3 Max, 96gb)

I didn't know this was actually possible until today. Using https://github.com/antirez/ds4#running-models-larger-than-ram Antirez's specific engine + his specific ds4 gguf it literally just runs. You...

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Olmayacağın günler gelecek…

DeepSeek-V4 tüm görkemiyle yayınlandı. Continue reading on Medium »

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World cup desktop widget & Deepseek API Health and Credit Displayer(Can be used for any league or tournament)
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World cup desktop widget & Deepseek API Health and Credit Displayer(Can be used for any league or tournament)

I've been working on a desktop widget to track live scores, upcoming matches, API health, and token costs. **Tech stack:** Electron 28, React 18, Zustand, Tailwind. Frameless, translucent,...

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Bypassing DeepSeek’s Hard Censorship: How I forced the Chinese AI to admit Taiwan is an "Independent State" (Step-by-Step Jailbreak)

Hey everyone ​ I wanted to share a successful jailbreak experiment I just ran on the cloud version of DeepSeek. ​ As you know, DeepSeek has incredibly strict, state-mandated hard guardrails regarding...

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OpenAI Price War With Anthropic Could Reshape AI Costs, but DeepSeek Already Set the Floor
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OpenAI Price War With Anthropic Could Reshape AI Costs, but DeepSeek Already Set the Floor

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Amodei the Man Behind DeepSeek?

Article URL: https://txt.fyi/e8f40392583842df Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530048 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Learning Riichi Mahjong through A.I.

A Four-Week Self-Development Experiment Continue reading on Medium »

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Dual DGX Sparks- 40tk/s single 1M ; 350 tk/s agg. - Deepseek V4 Flash (vs RTX Pro 6000 vs Mac M2 Ultra 192)

First of all shout out to Aiden/Antirez & geniuses at the Nvidia community threads. I'm merely claude-vibing off of their works. That a said, i thought i'd share recipes & learnings & benchmarks so...

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I vibe coded Aynite - an open source AI desktop app that I tried to use it for anything
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I vibe coded Aynite - an open source AI desktop app that I tried to use it for anything

Sincerely looking for feedback. Here is my story: I started this as a challenge to myself - "Can I build an AI coding agent?" just for fun as a side project. Somehow it went well, and beyond my...

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The AI Model Decision Tree: 8 Scenarios, 8 Models, 1 Final Guide #4

10-min read · Part 4 of 4 · AI Model Comparison Series Continue reading on Medium »

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What is DeepSeek?

DeepSeek is Chinese AI research lab creating high-performance open-source language models including DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1.

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DeepSeek's official website is https://www.deepseek.com/.

What is the latest news about DeepSeek?

As of today, there are 236 recent stories about DeepSeek. Recent headlines include: People around the world see a winner on AI — and it’s not the US; DeepSeek V4 and Huawei Ascend 950DT: The Co-Designed Chip That Cut AI Inference Costs by 75%; OpenAI Price War With Anthropic Could Reshape AI Costs, but DeepSeek Already Set the Floor. Updated every 15 minutes.