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DeepSeek is the Chinese AI lab whose V3 and R1 models reset expectations about how much compute a frontier model actually needs. We follow every DeepSeek release, the US-China AI competition implications, and the open-weights strategy.
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Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as Kimi climbs OpenRouter charts
The Beijing lab's valuation has doubled to $20B in months as its Kimi K2.6 model becomes the second-most-used LLM on OpenRouter.
DeepSeek's first funding round could value the Chinese AI lab at $45B
Liang Wenfeng's previously self-funded lab is raising to give employees equity, with the China Integrated Circuit fund leading.
SenseTime open-sources SenseNova U1, an image model tuned for Chinese chips
Ten Chinese chip designers including Cambricon and Biren backed the model on day one as the sanctioned firm bets on open source to catch up.
DeepSeek's V4 lands with 1M-token context and a pivot to Huawei chips
The open-source flagship matches GPT-5.4 and Claude-Opus-4.6 on benchmarks while pricing V4-Pro at $1.74 per million input tokens.
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