Timeline
DeepSeek-V4 achieves 500K context with 90% less KV cache using FlashMemory
DeepSeek raises ~$6.9B at $48-55B valuation in first external funding round
DeepSeek raised $6.9B at $48-55B valuation in its first external funding round.
DeepSeek tops Ramp's US business spending index for trending software vendors
Building custom data-center CPUs for AI inference, targeting TikTok-scale agent workloads
ByteDance open-sources BAGEL 7B multimodal model under Apache 2.0 license
Launched DeepSeek-R1 large language model, causing $1 trillion market valuation shift
DeepSeek valuation jumps from $20B to $45B in first VC round led by China state fund.
Released GenLIP, a generative pretraining framework for Vision Transformers.
ByteDance introduced OmniShow, a unified multimodal framework for video generation.
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