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DeepSeek
A Chinese lab publishing some of the world's best open-weight models, for a fraction of the price of its American rivals. Its downloadable, very cheap models have shaken up the economics of the entire AI sector.
In other words
In early 2025, the release of its R1 model caused Nvidia to lose nearly $600 billion in market value in a single day.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- DeepSeek raises prices by 93%: has the price war hit rock bottom?
DeepSeek raised the price of its Flash model by 93% on 14 August, while other players are still cutting theirs. We analyse what this reversal reveals about the real economics of inference.
- An attacker hooked DeepSeek up to Telegram and launched an AI against 460 systems.
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have documented a malicious actor who integrated DeepSeek into an open-source agent framework, driven by Telegram, to target more than 460 systems exposed on the internet. We break down what this case reveals and how to protect against it.
- DeepSeek releases a model at 14 cents per million tokens that beats its own high-end offering
DeepSeek released a new version of its Flash model on 31 July 2026, priced at around $0.14 per million tokens, which scores 82.7% on Terminal-Bench and outperforms its own Pro model on several agentic tests. We analyse what this reversal means.
- Today at 5:59 PM, thousands of DeepSeek integrations will stop working.
On 24 July 2026 at 15:59 UTC, DeepSeek permanently removes the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner identifiers from its API. Any request using these names will fail, with no grace period. We explain what needs to change, the hidden pitfall in the migration, and what this deadline says about the growing weight of Chinese models.
- DeepSeek V4: China rolls out its open-source weapon against OpenAI and Anthropic
On 24 April, DeepSeek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash, two open-source models that rival Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 for a fraction of the price. And they run on Chinese chips. Here is what that really changes.
- DeepSeek V4: the AI that cuts costs by a factor of 1000
Raw intelligence is no longer the only battleground. Scheduled for late April 2026, DeepSeek V4 is taking aim at companies' wallets with operating costs that undercut all competition.