The open model war between Europe, the US and China heats up
Mistral unveiled Large 4 on October 6. The same week, Ecosia dropped Mistral, Reflection AI launched Beam and DeepSeek was reported near a $12 billion round.
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DeepSeek published a paper on DSec, its infrastructure for making agent training elastic
A DeepSeek paper co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng describes DSec, which mass-produces the isolated environments in which AI agents are trained.
The founders of DeepSeek and Moonshot were left off Xi’s US delegation
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng and Moonshot AI’s Yang Zhilin are absent from the reported list of Xi’s US delegation, which Beijing has not announced officially.
DeepSeek’s annualized revenue passed $1 billion after it raised API prices
DeepSeek’s annualized revenue passed $1 billion after a price rise lifted model usage fees by 2.3 to 4.5 times; a few months ago it was under $500 million.
DeepSeek reversed the retirement of V4 Pro, keeping it running after user demand
DeepSeek dropped its plan to route V4 Pro requests to V4.1 Flash from September 14. The service continues and billing is unchanged.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is out: 552 billion parameters, but only 8 billion active per token
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is almost twice the size of its predecessor yet cheaper, at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 output in peak hours.