DeepSeek closed its first-ever outside funding round at $7.4 billion, but the deal's structure means that for the most part, only one investor actually gets a say.

Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a background as a systems librarian in software development, she brings a unique perspective to her reporting. Having lived in the USA and Ireland, Barbara now resides in Croatia.

The Chinese company DeepSeek sent shockwaves through the AI and investment communities this week as people learned that it created state-of-the-art AI models using far less computing power and capital than anyone thought possible. The company then showed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Gerui Wang writes about AI, society, media, and culture. SUQIAN, CHINA - JANUARY 27, 2025 - An illustration photo shows the logo of DeepSeek and ChatGPT in Suqian, Jiangsu province ...

Chinese generative AI DeepSeek surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT as the No. 1 downloaded free app last week, alarming national security experts given Chinese government requirements for domestic firms to share data with the PRC. While an effort to legally ban ...

This week, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington were all fixated on one thing: DeepSeek. Earlier this month, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company debuted a free chatbot app that stunned many researchers and investors. While there is a ...

DeepSeek quickly rose to the top of the App Store these days, becoming the most downloaded iPhone app and dethroning ChatGPT. That's not a surprise if you've followed the genAI space for the past couple of years. AI apps can go viral, and the Chinese app ...

Remember DeepSeek, the large language model (LLM) out of China that was released for free earlier this year and upended the AI industry? Without the funding and infrastructure of leaders in the space like Google and OpenAI, the team behind the DeepSeek R1 ...

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip phones Roku TV vs Fire Stick Galaxy Buds 3 Pro vs Apple ...

The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls “marginally short” of GPT-5.4 and ...

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is raising the ire of regulators around the world. DeepSeek’s viral AI models and chatbot apps have been banned by a growing number of countries and government bodies, which have expressed concerns over DeepSeek’s ...