Timeline
Forecasts $121 billion in AI research hardware costs for 2028
Targets deployment of first 'AI intern' by September 2028
Targets $2.4B revenue this year and $11B by 2027 from its new performance advertising platform.
Unverified claims of GPT-5.5 + Codex integration with 7 capabilities
Internal AI agents now generate research-quality questions and correct published errors, with 1-2 year timeline for full researcher-level capabilities
Released updated privacy filter retrained on Nvidia's Nemotron-PII dataset with 50+ PII labels
Released V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters
Released DeepSeek-V4 with 1M-token context at 10% KV cache cost
Initiates first external fundraising round, targeting at least $300M at a $10B+ valuation to set a benchmark for employee stock options.
Delays to DeepSeek-V4 model due to Huawei Ascend chip compatibility work
Ecosystem
DeepSeek
OpenAI
Evidence (15 articles)
OpenAI Unleashes Real-Time Coding Revolution with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
Feb 12, 2026ClawRouter: Open-Source Tool Routes AI Requests to Cheapest Model in Under 1ms
Mar 21, 2026OpenAI's $100 Billion Horizon: How ChatGPT's Explosive Growth Is Reshaping the AI Industry
Feb 9, 2026Alibaba's Qwen Hits 1B Downloads, Captures 50% of Open-Source Market
Apr 10, 2026Anthropic Opus 4.7, ChatGPT Image 2 Rumored for Imminent Release
Apr 15, 2026AI Power Shift: How DeepSeek's Alleged Blackwell Chip Access Could Reshape Global AI Race
Feb 24, 2026AI Weekly: GPT-6 Rumors, DeepSeek V4 on Huawei, Anthropic Models, Qwen 3.6-Plus
Apr 5, 2026DeepSeek Teases 'Much Larger' Base Model Release Amid Industry Silence and Hardware Challenges
Mar 25, 2026+ 7 more articles