Engadget

DeepSeek permanently reduces the price of its flagship V4 model by 75 percent

DeepSeek is leaning hard into being the "cost-effective" choice for AI agents. According to its website, the Chinese startup is dropping the price for its latest flagship model, DeepSeek V4 Pro, to a ...
Bloomberg L.P.

DeepSeek To Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

DeepSeek said it will make permanent a steep discount on its flagship V4‑Pro model, maintaining prices for developers at a quarter of their original level. In a statement on its website, DeepSeek ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round

DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and in just a few weeks, its potential valuation has soared from $20 billion to $45 billion, the Financial Times and Bloomberg ...
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 ...
The Next Web

DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth

The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the ...
Forbes

DeepSeek V4 Shows That The Next AI Race Is About Efficiency

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CNET

AI Arms Race Accelerates With New Models from OpenAI, DeepSeek and Anthropic

It's a busy week in the world of AI models, as some of the top artificial intelligence companies roll out their latest updates. Just a week after Anthropic introduced version 4.7 of its Claude Opus AI ...
Hartford Courant

China’s DeepSeek rolls out a long-anticipated update of its AI model

HONG KONG (AP) — DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update Friday as the AI rivalry between China ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

On standard, cache-miss pricing, DeepSeek-V4-Pro comes in at roughly one-seventh the cost of GPT-5.5 and about one-sixth (1/6th) the cost of Claude Opus 4.7. With cached input, the gap widens: ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that ...
CNBC

China's DeepSeek releases preview of long-awaited V4 model as AI race intensifies

DeepSeek launched a preview of its V4 model, expanding its open-source AI lineup. Its earlier R1 model disrupted markets with strong performance at a lower cost. Rising Chinese competition intensified ...