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Analysis: DeepSeek's hedge fund parent High-Flyer posted 56.6% average returns across its quant funds in 2025, boosting potential cash available for DeepSeek (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/dee…

Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti…

DeepSeek boosts AI model with 10-fold token addition as Zhipu AI unveils GLM-5
The upgrade will allow DeepSeek’s AI model to remember and process more information in a single conversation or task.

How Qwen 3 outcompetes OpenAI and DeepSeek https://apidog.com/blog/qwen-3-outcompetes-openai-and-deepseek/ "Qwen 3 shines with its variety of model sizes", "small models for edge devices or massive ones for heavy lifting";

How Qwen 3 Outcompetes OpenAI and DeepSeek
Explore how Qwen 3’s MoE architecture and open-weight models beat OpenAI and DeepSeek in performance and versatility.

In a memo to US lawmakers, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of using distillation techniques to train the next generation of R1 and "free-ride" on leading US AI models (Bloomberg)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/115718517570634592
Holy crap. So many people trying to get fat while the hype lasts, at the expense of pretty much everybody else.
And I don't see here mistral or deepseek, so these may be just the American ones…

Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-using-banned-nvidia-chi…

DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, according to six people with knowledge of the matter. The chips DeepSeek is using were smuggled ...

Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7a5b184-1fef-4f02-b957-4c2b07adf91f

ByteDance's new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0 goes viral in China, with one state-backed newspaper comparing it to DeepSeek's "Sputnik moment" (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-…

DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/deepseekmath-v2-is-deepseeks-late…

DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble
Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad, keeping the company in tight competition with Western AI labs.

Nvidia says that it hasn't seen "substantiation or received tips" about chip smuggling via data centers outside of China, after The Information's DeepSeek story (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2…