DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
The Next Web

DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.
Indiatimes

DeepSeek has an ‘API request’ for its customers: “…please understand!”

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, is temporarily restricting access to its API due to high demand and limited server capacity. They have suspended adding credits to API accounts to prevent service ...
TechNode

DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing

The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the company, the new version builds on the existing preview release with further ...
DIGITIMES

DeepSeek V4 introduces utility-style AI pricing in shift beyond China's LLM price war

DeepSeek will launch the official version of its V4 large language model (LLM) in mid-July alongside peak and off-peak API ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half

Researchers at DeepSeek on Monday released a new experimental model called V3.2-exp, designed to have dramatically lower inference costs when used in long-context operations. DeepSeek announced the ...
The Next Web

DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth

The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs. The move is a direct challenge to the ...