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DeepSeek

Company www.deepseek.com ● Covered in 92 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph LinkedIn

DeepSeek is a company that has been releasing open-weight AI models and expanding them with additional capabilities, including DeepSeek v4.1-Flash with a causal encoder–decoder design and added vision inputs. In recent coverage, it also discussed shifting API routing and pricing so that DeepSeek v4.1-Flash serves requests previously handled by v4-Pro. Separately, DeepSeek announced plans to hire engineers to focus on server-side infrastructure for agent sandboxes and evaluation rather than model research, and it reported vision-focused performance and cost comparisons for its V4 Flash Vision model.

Updated 13 September 2026

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16 stories (-50%)

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As of 17 Sep 2026 · Visible stories in the last 30 days, compared with the 30 days before.

30 sources

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As of 17 Sep 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.

12 events

Release activity

As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

1 event

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As of 17 Sep 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.

Mar 2024 → Sep 2026

Coverage span

As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.

Management

updated 2 Sep 2026

Latest developments

The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue 934: Understanding DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas and Muse TheSequence · 1 day ago · 42 Faced with less compute and fewer tokens, Chinese AI labs are tightening the gap with the US by just being more efficient Fortune · 24
The Sequence Radar - Issue 932: Last Week in AI: DeepSeek V4.1-Flash, AlphaGenome Atlas, Meta Muse, and OpenAI’s Proposed Math Breakthrough TheSequence · 4 days ago · 25
[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale Latent Space · 5 days ago · 4
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, says it outperforms flagship V4-Pro SiliconANGLE · 6 days ago · 15
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek TechCrunch · 6 days ago · 32
U.S. Agencies Accuse Six Chinese AI Firms of Siphoning Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok Trending Topics · 1 week ago · 50
DeepSeek is hiring 150 engineers, and none of them will touch a model The New Stack · 1 week ago · 4

Timeline

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September 2026

DeepSeek released the multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, featuring a 1M-token context window and KV-cache efficiency improvements Model release

US NSA, CISA, and FBI issued an advisory accusing six Chinese AI firms of bulk distillation of capabilities from US frontier models Security issue

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and related agentic video understanding capabilities for its Gemini Flash models Model release

August 2026

Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an LLM model-routing gateway, while Ramp launched an AI model router service called Router Acquisition

DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4-Pro for general availability (GA) Model release

Anthropic reported a sharp increase in quarterly revenue and reached an annualized revenue run rate of about $65 billion ahead of its planned IPO Other

DeepSeek V4 Pro benchmarked against Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE software engineering tasks Benchmark result

OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek released new AI models, alongside price cuts for newly released models by OpenAI and Anthropic Model release

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash (0731) and updated API pricing with peak/off-peak rates for its V4 models Pricing change

DeepSeek open sourced DeepSeek Harness, a Node.js agent runtime built around a plugin-based architecture Open source release

July 2026

DeepSeek releases V4-Flash-0731 model with improved agentic and coding performance at reduced pricing Model release

Moonshot released Kimi K3, a large open-weight AI model Open source release

Poolside AI releases Laguna 118B, an open-weight model demonstrating exceptional efficiency with significant performance gains over much larger competitors Open source release

China regulates anthropomorphic AI services and emergence of facial data licensing marketplace Policy change

Multiple AI model releases and regulatory developments across OpenAI, Anthropic, and competitors Other

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with API pricing and delayed weights availability Model release

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight large language model Model release

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