Coverage (30d)
3vs1
This Week
2vs1
Evidence
2 articlesTeam Size
200vs—
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 tops Ramp's US business spending index for trending software vendors
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.
DeepSeek2026-04-24
Released V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters
Ecosystem
DeepSeek
developedDeepSeek V412 src
developedDeepSeek-R17 src
competes withOpenAI7 src
developedDeepSeek-V36 src
competes withAnthropic6 src
usesClaude Code3 src
High-Flyer
spun offDeepSeek1 src