Center for Strategic and International Studies

What to Know About Chinese AI Models

Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the gap with U.S. frontier systems. This analysis examines what their growing ...

AI browsers like Perplexity Comet can be tricked into spilling your password through BioShocking exploit

A new exploit called BioShocking convinces AI browsers they're playing a game, then gets them to hand over your private data.
TechNode

DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing

The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the ...
Tech Times

DeepSeek V4 Architecture: How Sparse Attention Cuts Inference Costs, What NIST Found

DeepSeek V4 architecture uses sparse attention to cut inference costs 73% at one-million-token contexts, but a NIST ...
Forbes

DeepSeek Just Raised $7.4 Billion. Here’s The Catch.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has raised over $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, ...
Seeking Alpha

DeepSeek completes record $7B-plus fundraising, valuation tops $50B - report

Editor's note: The revised post has been updated with additional information. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) has completed a record-breaking funding round of over $7B, bringing the company's ...
Reuters

DeepSeek slated to raise $7 billion in maiden funding round, sources say

Funding may value DeepSeek at up to $59 billion, sources say Tencent, CATL set to become the largest external investors, sources say NetEase and JD.com also among investors, sources say The ...
Android

DeepSeek Makes Aggressive 75% Price Cut to Weaponize Western AI Rate Limit Anger

Initially, DeepSeek framed the discount as a short-term promotional campaign in April. However, given the user backlash against increasingly restrictive Western AI chatbots, the company has made the ...
Game Rant

New Mortal Kombat Game Confirmed

Rick Warren is a Senior Features Editor from the United States who has been a massive gamer and comic book fan ever since he played Spider-Man on the PlayStation 1. He loves writing about everything ...
Reuters

DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50 billion in first fundraising, sources say

China's newly founded national AI fund to lead DeepSeek fundraising, source says DeepSeek maiden fundraising reverses years-long strategy of rejecting outside funding Fundraising will fuel computing ...
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 ...
CNET

AI Arms Race Accelerates With New Models from OpenAI, DeepSeek and Anthropic

What you should know about the latest AI models, including DeepSeek's V4, OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7. Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital culture and other topics for outlets ...