Marina Zhang, an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, said DeepSeek’s V4 rollout is as a “pivotal milestone for China’s AI industry,” especially as global competition intensifies in the pursuit of self-reliance in critical technologies.

The U.S. is reportedly targeting alleged efforts by Chinese companies to steal intellectual property from American AI labs.

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A year after rattling Silicon Valley with its technology, China’s DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model, calling it the most powerful open-source platform in a challenge to rivals from OpenAI to Anthropic PBC.

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.

The US State Department has reportedly mandated a global expansion of an extensive initiative in response to moves by Chinese companies, including AI startup DeepSeek. The primary

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has released a preview of its latest model, called DeepSeek-V4, more than a year after it gained attention by climbing to the

On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently.