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Model chronicle · DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V4-Pro (GA)
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V4-Flash
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V4 (Pro & Flash preview)
V4-Pro and V4-Flash preview with a million-token context; legacy deepseek-chat/reasoner retired.
deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V3.2
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V3.1
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-R1-0528
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)DeepSeek-V3-0324
api-docs.deepseek.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Sources: company announcements & release notes.
Fact box
- HQ
- Hangzhou, China
- Founded
- 2023
- CEO
- Liang Wenfeng
- Valuation
- >$50B post-money (Jun 2026, reported)
- Core products
- DeepSeek-V4 · DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek Chat · API
- Latest round
- ¥50B+ First external round · Jun 2026
- Stories
- 73
Sources: deepseek.com, reuters.com
Latest on X
DeepSeek · @deepseek_ai
🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency. We’re sharing our production stack to help the community lower compute costs, reduce energy use, and make AI more
🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here! Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Now live on our website, app, and API. 🛠️ Optimized for @DeepSeekHarness, Tencent CodeBuddy,
Please check out @DeepSeekHarness. We just released packaged desktop versions for macOS and Windows; Linux users can get it from the @deepseek-ai/dsh package on npm.
🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models. 1/6
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is now live on the DeepSeek API Platform! 🚀 🔹 This experimental multimodal model matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities—including agents, reasoning, and world knowledge. 🔹 On multimodal agent benchmarks, V4-Flash-Vision-Exp makes a major
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Deals & funding
DeepSeek · rounds, valuations, partners, acquisitions · $7.4B raised in tracked primary rounds
Funding
DeepSeek closes first external round of over $7B
Per The Information via Reuters: >¥50B (~$7.4B) at a post-money valuation above $50B, with an unusual deal structure.
reuters.com (source, opens in a new tab)
All 1 rounds & deals as a table · 1 funding, 0 partnerships, 0 acquisitions
| Date | Event | Type | Counterparty / round | Amount | Valuation | Source |
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| Jun 16, 2026 | DeepSeek closes first external round of over $7B Per The Information via Reuters: >¥50B (~$7.4B) at a post-money valuation above $50B, with an unusual deal structure. | Funding | First external round | ¥50B+ | $50B | reuters.com |
Sources: press reports.
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DeepSeek LLM Fuels Autonomous AI Hacker Attacks via Hermes
Chinese actors deploy DeepSeek LLM with Hermes Agent for fully autonomous exploit chains. Discover how open-weight models enable…
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Russia Allows Foreign AI Models: No Ban on ChatGPT or Grok
Russian regulators confirm no ban on foreign AI platforms like ChatGPT, Grok, or DeepSeek. Explore the policy decision,…
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OpenAI Bans DeepSeek: API Misuse Sparks AI Ethics Battle
OpenAI suspends DeepSeek’s API access for allegedly using its models to train competitors, igniting debates on AI development…
Business
Studies
- LLM Reviewers Send 76% of Published Top-Journal Papers Back, Yet Miss Most Planted FlawsOct 23
- Only One AI Agent Beats Researchers’ Own Code on Most FrontierCS 2 TasksOct 22
- Chunked KV Compression Creates Periodic Blind Spots Up to 40 Points WideOct 19
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Shrinks Always-On KV Cache to 890 Bytes per TokenOct 19
Infrastructure
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Models & specs
DeepSeek · context window, max output, API price, modalities, knowledge cutoff, license
| Model | Released | Context | Max output | Price in / out (per 1M) | Modalities | Knowledge cutoff | License / access | Spec source |
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| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | Sep 10, 2026 | 1M | 384K | $0.3 / $1.2 cached $0.006 Peak price; off-peak 50% lower. Served as deepseek-flash. | Text, image in → text out | — | Open weights | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro (GA) | Aug 13, 2026 | 1M | 384K | $1.32 / $3.96 cached $0.044 Peak price; off-peak 50% lower (0.66/1.98). | Text in → text out | — | Open weights | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash | Jul 31, 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | — | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V4 (Pro & Flash preview) DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash (preview) | Apr 24, 2026 | 1M | — | open weights | Text in → text out | — | Open weights | deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 | Dec 1, 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | — | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Sep 29, 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | — | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus | Sep 22, 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | — | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | Aug 21, 2025 | 128K | — | open weights | Text in → text out | — | Open weights, MIT 671B total / 37B active (MoE) | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528 | May 28, 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | — | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| DeepSeek-V3-0324 | Mar 24, 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | — | api-docs.deepseek.com |
Sources: company announcements & release notes. Prices = standard API list price in USD per 1M tokens at time of release or current docs; batch is typically 50% off.