DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese startup founded in July 2023 in Hangzhou by Liang Wenfeng and backed by hedge fund High‑Flyer.
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No company-published 2026 funding, valuation, or financing-term disclosures were located in DeepSeek official public materials reviewed as of 2026-07-28.
· api-docs.deepseek.com financing
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DeepSeek lists API pricing for DeepSeek-V4-Flash at $0.14 per 1M input tokens cache miss and $0.87 per 1M output tokens, and for DeepSeek-V4-Pro at $0.435 and $2.19 respectively.
· api-docs.deepseek.com revenue
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No company-published 2026 GPU-order, cluster-capacity, or datacentre-buildout figures were located in DeepSeek official docs and announcements reviewed as of 2026-07-28.
· api-docs.deepseek.com compute
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No company-published 2026 major partnerships, named customers, or M&A transactions were located in DeepSeek official public materials reviewed as of 2026-07-28.
· api-docs.deepseek.com partnership
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[concentration-outage] DeepSeek's status page recorded a web-search outage that was resolved on 2026-07-21 after service restoration.
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DeepSeek announced DeepSeek-V4 Preview with 1M context, with V4-Pro at 1.6T total parameters and 49B active parameters, and V4-Flash at 284B total parameters and 13B active parameters.
· api-docs.deepseek.com release
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[single-source-risk] DeepSeek announced that legacy models deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner would be fully retired and inaccessible after 2026-07-24 15:59 UTC, forcing migration.
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[contract-lever] DeepSeek V4 says buyers can keep the same base URL and switch only the model name, while supporting both OpenAI ChatCompletions and Anthropic APIs.
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[geopolitical-dependency] DeepSeek's terms say its products and services are owned and operated by Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.