After triggering price war, DeepSeek reverses course with surcharge on peak-hour API use

DeepSeek triggered a price war in May when it announced a permanent 75 per cent discount on V4 API access Chinese artificial ...
The Next Web

DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
DIGITIMES

DeepSeek V4 introduces utility-style AI pricing in shift beyond China's LLM price war

DeepSeek will launch the official version of its V4 large language model (LLM) in mid-July alongside peak and off-peak API ...
ExchangeWire

Digest: Apple & EU Hold Siri AI Talks; DeepSeek Introduces Peak-Hour API Pricing

In today’s Digest, we cover Apple and the EU holding talks over Siri’s AI rollout, DeepSeek introducing peak-hour API pricing ...
Tech Times

DeepSeek Releases DSpark: Speculative Decoding Makes V4 Up to 85 Percent Faster

DeepSeek speculative decoding framework DSpark went live June 27 on V4-Flash and V4-Pro, reporting up to 85 percent faster ...

Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied

The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg ...

DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec Signals a New Era for Open-Source AI, Boosting AI Efficiency By 85%

Explore how DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec and Zepu AI's GLM 5.5 are closing the gap with frontier models like Claude Mythos in 2026.

Multiple plugins for JetBrains IDEs steal API keys for OpenAI, DeepSeek & Co.

At least 15 plug-ins for JetBrains IDEs transmit API keys to an external server, while otherwise offering their promised functions.
The Financial Express

Claude Fable FOMO? DeepSeek to Qwen – 5 open models worth trying instead

Claude Fable 5 remains inaccessible in India due to US export restrictions. Explore five powerful open-weight AI models ...

A new, cheaper Chinese AI model is rivaling Anthropic, OpenAI. It's not DeepSeek

A model called GLM-5.2, launched last month by Beijing-based startup Z.ai, may finally be closing that gap in terms of ...
techtimes

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

In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is displayed on an iPhone screen on January 27, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Newly launched Chinese AI app DeepSeek has surged to number one in Apple's ...