DeepSeek set to raise $7 billion in first funding round: sources

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Mixture-of-experts models quietly changed what hardware you need for local AI

MoE models make local AI more accessible on hardware that most people actually have ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent

It ain't no match for a dedicated GPU, but you can run some light LLMs on the N100 ...

How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat

DeepSeek's permanent 75% price cut runs 87x cheaper on cache reads, pushing enterprise teams off Western APIs and threatening frontier lab revenue models.
InfoWorld

DeepSeek’s steep V4-Pro price cut escalates AI pricing war

A 75% reduction highlights falling inference costs and challenges premium pricing from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
China Daily Global Edition

Alibaba teams up with Apple to roll out AI features for iPhones in China

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's co-founder and chairman Joe Tsai revealed on Thursday that Alibaba will partner with US tech giant Apple Inc to roll out artificial intelligence features for iPhone users ...
GitHub

DeepSeek Code Worker MCP

Pure-execution MCP server for Codex Desktop. It lets Codex delegate real coding work to DeepSeek V4 through Claude Code, so the main Codex conversation can stay focused on task boundaries, status ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Developers Are Choosing DeepSeek V4 Flash Over the 1.6T Pro Edition

DeepSeek V4 introduces two distinct editions designed to address varying computational requirements: the Pro edition, featuring an expansive 1.6 trillion parameters ...
The New York Times

DeepSeek’s Sequel

China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Remember the “DeepSeek moment?” The ...
Cfr.org

DeepSeek V4 Signals a New Phase in the U.S.-China AI Rivalry

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek released a version of its long-awaited V4 large language model on Friday. It’s the most significant update since the release of the version that ...
Forbes

DeepSeek V4 Shows That The Next AI Race Is About Efficiency

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GizChina

DeepSeek V4 Is Here: Open-Source, Huawei-Compatible, and Priced to Disrupt

DeepSeek's V4 preview arrives more than a year after the company's R1 reasoning model rattled global tech markets — that model matched top benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of models built by the ...