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DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
TechNode

DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing

The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the company, the new version builds on the existing preview release with further ...
Tech Times

Most AI Models Would Run Your Company Into the Ground, Princeton’s CEO-Bench Finds

Princeton’s CEO-Bench gave 14 AI models $1 million to run a simulated SaaS startup for 500 days. Most went bankrupt or lost ...

DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec Signals a New Era for Open-Source AI, Boosting AI Efficiency By 85%

Explore how DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec and Zepu AI's GLM 5.5 are closing the gap with frontier models like Claude Mythos in 2026.
Tech Times

DeepSeek V4 Architecture: How Sparse Attention Cuts Inference Costs, What NIST Found

DeepSeek V4 architecture uses sparse attention to cut inference costs 73% at one-million-token contexts, but a NIST ...
TechRepublic

US Firms Try DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI Costs Rise

US firms are testing China’s DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI costs rise, raising questions about savings, data residency, and risk. Some US companies are taking a closer look at China’s DeepSeek as the ...
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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 including Tencent Holdings and CATL, people with knowledge of the matter said ...
Time

Whitmer Rules Out a 2028 Presidential Run, Then Walks It Back. Here’s What Other Potential Contenders Have Said

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VentureBeat

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

DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s ...
Bloomberg L.P.

DeepSeek Is Now Running Three AI Races at Once

Catherine Thorbecke is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia tech. Previously she was a tech reporter at CNN and ABC News. When DeepSeek released its highly anticipated V4 model last month, it ...
Psychology Today

Are You Authoring Your Life or Running a Script?

Watch the ghosts in Pac-Man long enough, and they start to feel personal. They chase, they corner, they seem to want you. They don’t. Each ghost works on a few simple instructions: if the player moves ...