The New York Times

DeepSeek’s Sequel

China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Remember the “DeepSeek moment?” The ...
Cfr.org

DeepSeek V4 Signals a New Phase in the U.S.-China AI Rivalry

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek released a version of its long-awaited V4 large language model on Friday. It’s the most significant update since the release of the version that ...
The Next Web

DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth

The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: DeepSeek’s latest AI breakthrough, and the race to build world models

Plus: China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...
Forbes

DeepSeek V4 Shows That The Next AI Race Is About Efficiency

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GizChina

DeepSeek V4 Is Here: Open-Source, Huawei-Compatible, and Priced to Disrupt

DeepSeek's V4 preview arrives more than a year after the company's R1 reasoning model rattled global tech markets — that model matched top benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of models built by the ...
Boston Herald

China’s DeepSeek rolls out a long-anticipated update of its AI model

HONG KONG (AP) — DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update Friday as the AI rivalry between China ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s DeepSeek Launches Long-Awaited AI Model

SINGAPORE—China’s DeepSeek released a new artificial-intelligence model, breaking months of silence from one of the country’s most closely watched AI labs. The long-awaited update to its V4 flagship ...
Mashable

DeepSeek V4 is here: How it compares to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

Anything you can do I can do better... That may as well be the motto for the AI arms race, which is unfolding across multiple dimensions in 2026. There's the competition between Silicon Valley AI labs ...
MIT Technology Review

Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters

The long-awaited V4 is more efficient and a win for Chinese chipmakers. On April 24, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. The model can process much ...