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DeepSeek
Open-weight model family from China.
- Vendor
- DeepSeek
- Licence
- Open weights
- Country
- CN
- Status
- Active
Score
Weighted from 65% of this profile’s axes.
- Independent coverage31
- Weighted independent stories, 30 days: 1.36
- Distinct independent publishers: 2
- Shipping43
- Releases, 90 days: 2 source
- Transparency100
- Checks passed: 5
- Checks we could assess: 5
- Adoption100
- GitHub stars: 104487 source
- Risk record100
- Weighted negative events, 90 days: 0
- Negative events counted: 0
- Measured 5 of 6 axes, carrying 65% of the weight in this profile.
- Not measurable yet: reliability. Their weight was redistributed, not counted as zero.
- Based on 60 day(s) of observation.
How this is calculated · formula score-v1, rules events-v2 ·
What happened
Typed events extracted from headlines with explicit rule patterns. Each one shows the rule that produced it and every source that backs it up. We record what happened, never whether it was good or bad — that weighting belongs to scoring, and it is written down in advance.
The pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comDeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
event:price-changenews.ycombinator.comDeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway
event:releasevercel.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway
event:releasevercel.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comDeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update
event:price-changeapi-docs.deepseek.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comDeepSeek API Pricing Update
event:price-changetwitter.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comThe pricing page changed
watch:pricingapi-docs.deepseek.comDeepSeek models now available via Azure on AI Gateway
event:releasevercel.comDeepSeek V3.2 models now available in Vercel AI Gateway
event:releasevercel.com
Coverage
40 articles mention this tool, from 8 independent publishers. Vendor posts are labelled so you can tell announcement from reporting.
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
Article URL: https://zartbot.github.io/blog/model_arch/dsv41flash_arch/en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735410 Points: 55 # Comments: 6
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- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
Article URL: https://enclave.ai/blog/deepseek-v41-flash-is-now-our-best-hacking-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725800 Points: 85 # Comments: 22
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- PressTechCrunch — AI
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
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- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Article URL: https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639090 Points: 59 # Comments: 9
twitter.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
DSeek plans to officially release the V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time). After extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across all key metrics, including performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. In keeping with our…
news.ycombinator.com · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-rivals-deepseek Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446422 Points: 114 # Comments: 35
bloomberg.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386163 Points: 59 # Comments: 3
api-docs.deepseek.com · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- CommunitySimon Willison
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that DeepSeek is 1.6B parameters, and Luna is size unknown but presumably a whole lot…
simonwillison.net · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296627 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
api-docs.deepseek.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek Harness
Article URL: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285244 Points: 131 # Comments: 54
github.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek API Pricing Update
Article URL: https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285160 Points: 35 # Comments: 7
twitter.com · See who else covered this
- CommunitySimon Willison
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model. I haven't been able to confirm if they plan to release the open weights, but given the…
simonwillison.net · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274600 Points: 316 # Comments: 100
openrouter.ai · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself
Article URL: https://manish.sh/writings/models/inside-deepseek-reverse-engineering-an-ai-assistant-by-interviewing-itself Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253738 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
manish.sh · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space
Article URL: https://blog.n.ichol.ai/packaging-latent-reasoning-as-a-real-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230550 Points: 22 # Comments: 9
blog.n.ichol.ai · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Article URL: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008 Points: 174 # Comments: 110
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- PressThe Guardian — AI
China’s AI ecosystem is not as open as it claims. Nor is any other country’s | Letters
Responding to an article by China’s ambassador to the UK, Prof Paul H Cleverley advocates shared openness standards, while Dr Claire Jenkins says British AI can offer a distinctive path Ambassador Zheng Zeguang rightly celebrates openly released AI models, and the Chinese labs behind Qwen, DeepSeek…
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- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Article URL: https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386 Points: 51 # Comments: 5
github.com · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek V4 Flash is 90% off through Novita on AI Gateway
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- CommunitySimon Willison
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model.…
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- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash-ga Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
artificialanalysis.ai · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek V4 Flash now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119559 Points: 311 # Comments: 142
api-docs.deepseek.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityHacker News — front page
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights.…
ctgt.ai · See who else covered this
- PressTransformer
DeepSeek’s boss made the case for export controls
Transformer Weekly: Trahan and Obernolte bill, OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, and CAISI chief resigns
transformernews.ai · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek models now available via Azure on AI Gateway
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- CommunityInterconnects
Latest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment.
An eventful month with one flagship release after another
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- CommunityLast Week in AI
Last Week in AI #340 - OpenAI vs Musk + Microsoft, DeepSeek v4, Vision Banana
First week of Musk v. Altman, OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal, DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models, and more!
lastweekin.ai · See who else covered this
- CommunityLast Week in AI
LWiAI Podcast #243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage
Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
lastweekin.ai · See who else covered this
- PressMIT Technology Review — AI
Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters
On April 24, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. The model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open…
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- VendorHugging Face Blog
DeepSeek-V4: a million-token context that agents can actually use
huggingface.co · See who else covered this
- VendorVercel Changelog
Deepseek V4 on AI Gateway
vercel.com · See who else covered this
- PressMIT Technology Review — AI
What’s next for Chinese open-source AI
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The past year has marked a turning point for Chinese AI. Since DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model in January 2025, Chinese…
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- VendorHugging Face Blog
The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+
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- VendorHugging Face Blog
Architectural Choices in China's Open-Source AI Ecosystem: Building Beyond DeepSeek
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