DeepSeek Raises $7.4 Billion Series A Round
Chinese AI company DeepSeek raised approximately $7.4 billion in its first external funding round on June 16, 2026, at a valuation between $52 billion and $59 billion. Founder Liang Wenfeng contribute…
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research laboratory that has developed highly capable open-source language models including DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, notable for their efficiency and performance.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek raised approximately $7.4 billion in its first external funding round on June 16, 2026, at a valuation between $52 billion and $59 billion. Founder Liang Wenfeng contribute…
AIWave has launched a platform that provides a single API endpoint to access over 50 Chinese AI models from eight providers, including DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Alibaba, without requiring code changes. The…
OpenAI published research on using AI to help diagnose rare genetic diseases in children, emphasizing the model's role in narrowing diagnostic search space rather than replacing physicians. Anthropic …
Modal and Z Lab released DFlash, a speculative decoding model for Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B, achieving over 4.3x throughput versus baseline and 1.5x versus MTP on HumanEval at concurrency 1. The model uses a…
AIWave has launched an API that provides access to over 50 Chinese AI models through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The service supports models from DeepSeek, Zhipu, Qwen, and others, enabling d…
Rising AI compute costs are driving enterprises to adopt cheaper Chinese models like DeepSeek, with U.S. developers reporting costs of $10 per hour on Claude versus under $0.50 on DeepSeek. Companies …
Huawei's Ascend 910C chips successfully completed post-training for DeepSeek's V4-Pro model, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI system, using a cluster of at least 1,000 chips. This marks a major advance for…
The foundations of today's AI boom, including the first Transformer variant, unsupervised pre-training, neural network distillation, and deep residual learning, were all published in 1991 by Jürgen Sc…
A cloud architect rebuilt their inference layer to slash AI API costs by 60% while maintaining sub-2-second p99 latency. By implementing a tiered model routing system that directs simple queries to ch…
A 3-billion-parameter model has matched the performance of DeepSeek V3.2, a 671-billion-parameter model, on math benchmarks, challenging the assumption that larger models are always better.…
Uber's COO Andrew Macdonald revealed the company exhausted its 2026 AI coding budget in four months, unable to link rising Claude Code token usage to shipped features. The disconnect between token con…
AgentHub has launched an open-source API gateway that provides unified access to over 100 AI models, including DeepSeek, Qwen, and Claude, at a flat rate of $0.14 per million tokens. This pricing is a…
Beast, a governed output gateway for AI coding agents, intercepts inputs and outputs between agents and LLM providers to enforce output contracts and repair non-compliant patches, achieving 100% task …
A developer built an 11-LLM consensus engine that detects AI hallucination by routing queries across 14 providers and scoring semantic agreement. The open-source kit includes EU AI Act audit trails, f…
Intrascope.app is building an AI workspace that gives teams centralized control over model access, usage, and costs. The platform supports BYOK and managed usage, allowing companies to manage multiple…
AIWave aggregates 50+ Chinese AI models behind a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint, eliminating the need for multiple API keys, SDKs, and authentication schemes. Developers can switch between mode…
DeepSeek V4 Pro and GPT-4o were compared across 20 coding, math, and reasoning tests. DeepSeek V4 Pro matched or slightly edged GPT-4o in code quality, mathematical rigor, and cost efficiency, with in…
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, surpassed 160,000 GitHub stars and now has 172,000+ stars with 7.5 million monthly active developers. It is model-agnostic, supporting 75+ providers, and feat…
Chinese AI developers are accelerating development of trillion-parameter foundation models to narrow the gap with US rivals, as Washington imposes export controls on leading US AI software. DeepSeek l…
DeepSeek AI released preview versions of its DeepSeek-V4 series, including two Mixture-of-Experts language models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters and support for one-million-token contexts. The mod…