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DeepSeek is reported to have raised about $15 billion at a roughly $74 billion valuation, two days after DHS ordered its removal from federal civilian systems.
DeepSeek open-sourced TileLang and a set of Ascend kernel libraries, a CUDA-style software stack for Huawei's AI chips that lowers the cost of leaving Nvidia.
DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash packs a new 552B architecture and aggressive pricing, and it outruns the company's own Pro tier on many agent and coding benchmarks.
DeepSeek repriced the frontier, Samsung hit golden yield on HBM4, Google put Gemini on-device, Databricks raised $5B and Microsoft patched 400 flaws.
DeepSeek launched V4 Pro and raised API prices by up to 14x, its sharpest break yet from the low-cost strategy that made it a global AI phenomenon.
