Tag: DeepSeek

Western startups are editing Chinese models until they sound American

Hirundo and Lazarus AI use weight edits and machine unlearning to strip censorship from Qwen and DeepSeek before…

Washington orders DeepSeek scrubbed from civilian agency systems

A Homeland Security directive tells federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek-based products and pull existing installs off…

DeepSeek ships a Flash checkpoint and opens its own search API

The 1017 build posts 77.0 on DeepSWE, edging Claude Opus 5 in DeepSeek's own table, while search and…

DeepSeek’s Flash update undercuts rivals on agentic cost

The Chinese lab shipped open weights for V4.1-Flash-1017 and opened its in-house search engine as a paid API.

DeepSeek shrinks its KV cache to fit million-token contexts

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash targets the memory bill behind long-running agents, cutting cache footprint to 890 bytes per token.

DeepSeek hikes V4 prices as Flash flubs complex agent jobs

DeepSeek's V4 Flash tops leaderboards but passes barely half its agent tasks as API prices jump.

DeepSeek opens Harness so builders can assemble their own agents

The Chinese lab's open-source agent framework takes on Claude Code with an everything-is-a-plugin design.

DeepSeek graduates V4 Pro to production after a four-month preview

DeepSeek's flagship V4 Pro reached general availability as build 0813, ending a four-month preview with unchanged pricing.

Unitree’s Shanghai listing brings DeepSeek aboard with $21M

The AI lab bought 2.31 percent of the robot maker's placement and will co-develop humanoid models.

DeepSeek mulls new funding round and prepares for IPO

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is weighing additional fundraising weeks after closing a $7 billion round, while also preparing…

OpenAI’s 2025 Identity Crisis: Desperate Moves, Code Red, and the Race to Stay Relevant

OpenAI spent 2025 in a state of barely concealed panic, chasing every trend from shopping to suicide prevention…