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Chinese AI lab, formally Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd., known for low-cost models and open-source infrastructure code.
DeepSeek open-sourced its DeepInfer inference framework on October 20, 2026. See our report and the coverage of the federal ban on DeepSeek products.
DeepSeek's first code models (1.3B to 33B), trained from scratch on 2 trillion tokens of mostly code, with project-level completion and infilling.
DeepSeek's open code model family; the Lite version uses a 16B mixture-of-experts with 2.4B active parameters and supports 338 programming languages.
Smaller reasoning models distilled from DeepSeek-R1 into Qwen and Llama bases, from 1.5B to 70B, bringing chain-of-thought reasoning to local hardware.
DeepSeek's 671B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 37B active per token, notable for frontier-level performance at a reported low training cost.
An update to DeepSeek-V3 that combines thinking and non-thinking modes in one model, with stronger tool use and agent performance.
DeepSeek's December 2025 model that introduced DeepSeek Sparse Attention and "thinking with tools", with a high-compute Speciale variant for reasoning.
DeepSeek's V4 preview series: V4-Pro (1.6T parameters, 49B active) and V4-Flash (284B, 13B active), both with a one-million-token context window.
DeepSeek's multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a new causal encoder-decoder design, native image input and a one-million-token context window.
The AI stories that mattered on October 21, 2026: OpenAI's biotech deal, TorchTPU, Meta's Muse pause, Anthropic's draft bill, DeepInfer and a rescue drone.
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DeepSeek released DeepInfer under Apache 2.0, the serving stack for V4.1-Flash on Nvidia Blackwell and Huawei Ascend chips, with offline inference only for now.
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The AI stories that mattered on October 20, 2026: a federal DeepSeek ban, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, Tenstorrent's raise, Meta's Prometheus and the OpenCode breach.
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The Department of Homeland Security has ordered DeepSeek products removed from federal civilian IT systems, citing data-transfer risks. The ban took effect in late July.
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Three cheap, fast models launched within days. We compare published prices, context windows and vendor benchmark claims, and what the numbers do not show.
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