DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says his AI startup, valued at $60 billion, operates without KPIs or overtime, telling staff in a recorded session that research requires a relaxed environment and that …
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on July 31st, an MIT-licensed model with API prices of $0.14 per million cache-miss input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, aiming to lower cost barr…
DeepSeek released V4-Flash-0731, an updated API for coding agents, into public beta on July 31, keeping the model's 284-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture unchanged while adding native …
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng said during an investor call that the company has no KPIs, no written vision, and no formal organization, operating instead on goodwill and an obsession with AGI. He sta…
Liang Wenfeng, founder of Chinese quant trading firm High-Flyer and AI lab DeepSeek, is viewed abroad as a symbol of China's technological rise after DeepSeek's R1 model trained at a fraction of Weste…
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek are forcing Silicon Valley to rethink assumptions about the AI race, with Moonshot pausing new Kimi K3 subscriptions less than 48 hours after launch due to overw…
DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it is suspending the deal for now, days after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about U.S.-Chinese AI com…
A leak at DeepSeek exposed proprietary engineering pipelines, including data curation, RL alignment recipes, and system configurations, rather than model weights. The incident highlights that the true…
DeepSeek told prospective investors on July 25 to halt a second funding round that would have valued the Chinese AI lab at $71 billion, triggered by a leaked transcript of founder Liang Wenfeng's priv…
Leaked comments from DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng reveal a strategy of corporate restraint, low-margin pricing, and open-source models, prioritizing long-term AI ambition over short-term gains. The …
DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after leaked comments from founder Liang Wenfeng about China's dependence on Nvidia chips and the country's AI gap with the United States went viral…
Anthropic announced it cut Claude Code's system prompt by more than 80% for the Claude 5 generation with no measurable regression on coding evals, urging developers to rely less on prompt engineering.…
DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-China AI competition went viral, people familiar with the matter said. The Chines…
DeepSeek has paused a major fundraise after a leaked investor transcript revealed the lab received only 16,000 of the 200,000 Huawei 950 chips it requested, exposing a critical hardware deficit under …
DeepSeek has paused its fundraising efforts after a leaked transcript of an investor meeting revealed founder Liang Wenfeng's comments on the company's compute gap compared to US rivals. The transcrip…
DeepSeek has reportedly paused a planned funding round after a leaked transcript of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng's off-the-cuff remarks went viral, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous so…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has paused discussions on a second funding round just weeks after closing a $7.4 billion raise at a $52 billion valuation, according to the company's direct communication w…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, is seeking to raise at least 10 billion yuan in a follow-on funding round at a pre-money valuation of roughly $71 billion, just weeks after closing its first external…
DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it is suspending the deal for now, days after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-Chinese AI compe…
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a lack of access to AI chips is the primary factor holding China back, arguing that he needs 200,000 Huawei 950 chips to train a frontier model but Huawe…