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Chinese AI lab behind the V3, R1 and V4 open-source large language models.
DeepSeek closes in on $6.88B round at $68.8B valuation — Sep 24, 2026 — DeepSeek chief executive Liang Wenfeng told investors on Sunday that the Chinese AI lab has crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue and is finalizing...AI Agents Hack 395 Organizations via PaperCut Flaws in 48 Countries — Sep 11, 2026 — GreyNoise says a likely Russian-speaking operator wired hundreds of AI agents into OpenAI's Codex harness and a DeepSeek model to build, test and fire...DeepSeek Ships V4.1-Flash With 1M Context And 8x Smaller KV Cache — Sep 10, 2026 — DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash under MIT with a 552B MoE backbone, 8B active parameters, FP4 KV cache and $0.15/M pricing that edges Opus 5 and GPT-5.6...Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Flash With 6B Active Params, Undercuts Rivals By 12x — Sep 1, 2026 — The 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates just 6B per token, previews Qwen4 architecture and lists at $0.16 / $0.47 per million tokens.DeepSeek Ships V4-Pro GA And Hikes API Prices By Up To 1,100% — Aug 16, 2026 — DeepSeek released V4-Pro as its production flagship on Aug. 13, folding in native OpenAI Responses API and Codex support, then paired it with an API p...Unitree Prices Shanghai IPO at $9B With DeepSeek Backing — Aug 7, 2026 — China's Unitree Robotics set its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.8 yuan per share, valuing the humanoid maker at 61 billion yuan ($9.04B) with DeepSee...CISA Adds Langflow, Tomcat and N-central Flaws to KEV — Aug 5, 2026 — CISA on August 5 added three actively exploited vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog, including a critical Langflow RCE and an Apache Tomcat encryption...DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Ships With Codex Support At $0.14 Per Million Tokens — Aug 2, 2026 — DeepSeek's V4-Flash 0731 API entered public beta on 31 July 2026 with a major agent-capability upgrade, native OpenAI Responses API support and full C...Etched Doubles To $10.3B Valuation With $300M Series C For AI Inference Chips — Jul 24, 2026 — Etched, the Harvard-dropout inference-chip startup, closed a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, with SK Hynix, Andreessen Horowitz,...What Are Open-Weight AI Models? A 2026 Guide — Jun 6, 2026 — Open-weight AI models — foundation models with published weights you can run and fine-tune — defined the 2026 market. Here's what they are and why the...DeepSeek Lines Up $7.4B First Funding Round With Tencent And CATL — Jun 4, 2026 — Chinese AI champion DeepSeek is closing on $7.4 billion from Tencent, CATL, NetEase and Beijing-backed funds at a valuation as high as $59 billion in...