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18 developments involving DeepSeek in 9 countries and bodies. The most recent is DeepSeek reported to have raised about 100 billion yuan from CATL, Tencent and others, 22 Oct 2026.
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- DeepSeek reported to have raised about 100 billion yuan from CATL, Tencent and others
A round of that size would put DeepSeek’s funding in the range of the leading US labs, with Chinese industrial and internet companies as its backers.
- DeepSeek and MiniMax register under China’s new AI export rules, state media says
The first registrations under the interim regime went through within a week, and Beijing’s message to its labs is that open-weight releases and overseas services continue.
- DeepSeek and Huawei narrow AI chip gap with Nvidia, SemiAnalysis says
Kernels and compilers DeepSeek wrote for Nvidia chips now run on Huawei’s, the step a Chinese lab needs to train and serve frontier models without Nvidia hardware.
- DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services
Providers serving the open-weight V4.1-Flash can run DeepSeek’s own serving code on NVIDIA Blackwell or Huawei Ascend hardware, with the cache and routing layers left for them to build.
- Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to break into sites of 100+ companies for about US$5000
Fagerland said the campaign is evidence that commercially available AI agents can carry out complex intrusions from start to finish without human intervention, which lets a single attacker hit more than 100 companies.
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- DHS orders DeepSeek products out of federal civilian IT systems and procurement
It is the first FASCSA order issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security for civilian systems, and it bars DeepSeek’s own products and any third-party service built on DeepSeek models from civilian agencies.
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- DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 update with open weights
An open-weights model that DeepSeek’s own tests put ahead of OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s models on some coding and agent benchmarks can be downloaded and run under the MIT licence.
- DeepSeek memory-saving technology may reduce model accuracy, researchers find
The paper is a rare challenge to the memory-saving technology that has helped DeepSeek close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic at low cost, though the study has not been peer-reviewed.
- Only 3.6% of 857 Chinese model releases ever got a published safety result
Chinese labs publish open weights anyone can run, and this counts how rarely any safety result is published alongside them.
- DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash and routes its V4-Pro traffic to it
Developers on DeepSeek’s API moved to a cheaper open-weights model by default, and anyone can download it to run themselves.
- DeepSeek makes V4-Pro generally available with peak and off-peak pricing
DeepSeek made its flagship work as a drop-in for OpenAI-based coding tools at off-peak prices half the peak rate.
- DeepSeek releases V4, a 1.6-trillion-parameter open-weights model with 1M context
Developers anywhere can download and run V4 under the MIT licence, so Western limits on model access do not reach a model within months of the closed frontier.
- Korea’s privacy regulator finds DeepSeek sent prompts to ByteDance’s Volcano Engine
The finding gave Korean users and other regulators a documented case of a Chinese chatbot moving prompt data abroad without consent.
- Hong Kong launches HKGAI V1, a government-backed model fine-tuned from DeepSeek
Hong Kong’s government began building a locally tuned DeepSeek model into the drafting assistant its civil servants use.
- South Korea’s privacy regulator suspends new downloads of the DeepSeek app
Korean users lost access to new DeepSeek app installs, and foreign AI app makers learned that Korea’s privacy regulator will pull an app from stores over data handling.
- Italy orders DeepSeek to stop processing Italian users’ data
DeepSeek’s chatbot had to stop handling the personal data of people in Italy ten days after its R1 model was released, pending the Garante’s investigation.
- DeepSeek releases R1 reasoning model with open weights under MIT licence
Developers can download R1’s weights under the MIT licence and run a model DeepSeek says matches OpenAI o1, or pay $2.19 per million output tokens through its API.
- DeepSeek releases V3, a 671B open-weights model trained on 2.788M H800 GPU hours
Developers anywhere could download a Chinese model its makers said rivalled leading closed systems, with a disclosed training budget of 2.788 million H800 GPU hours.