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DeepSeek
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Est. 2023·Hangzhou, China
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Alibaba
stablePositive
Est. 1999·Hangzhou, China
Coverage (30d)
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This Week
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Team Size
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Timeline

DeepSeek2026-06-09

DeepSeek-V4 achieves 500K context with 90% less KV cache using FlashMemory

DeepSeek2026-06-05

DeepSeek raises ~$6.9B at $48-55B valuation in first external funding round

DeepSeek2026-06-01

DeepSeek raised $6.9B at $48-55B valuation in its first external funding round.

DeepSeek2026-06-01

DeepSeek tops Ramp's US business spending index for trending software vendors

Alibaba2026-05-25

Alibaba and Nanjing University published paper claiming 9.36X speedup for million-token prefill

DeepSeek2026-05-18

Launched DeepSeek-R1 large language model, causing $1 trillion market valuation shift

DeepSeek2026-05-07

DeepSeek valuation jumps from $20B to $45B in first VC round led by China state fund.

Alibaba2026-04-23

Launched first external partnership for Qwen AI app with China Eastern Airlines for flight booking integration

Alibaba2026-04-22

Released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27B parameter model that surpasses its previous 397B MoE model on coding benchmarks.

Alibaba2026-04-20

Researchers developed DCW (Diffusion Correction in Wavelet domain), a method to fix SNR-t misalignment bias in diffusion models, improving performance for models like FLUX and EDM.

Ecosystem

DeepSeek

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competes withAnthropic6 src
usesClaude Code3 src

Alibaba

developedQwen 3.5 Medium7 src
developedQwen 3.6 Plus6 src
developedQwen 2.55 src
developedQwen3.5-Omni4 src
developedQwen 3.5 397B3 src
investedMoonshot AI3 src

Evidence (3 articles)

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