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.

DeepSeek, the startup behind a low-cost chatbot that sent shockwaves through the AI community last year, has released its highly anticipated V4 model.

Chinese startup DeepSeek released a new artificial intelligence model Friday, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost reasoning model that matched the capabilities of US

DeepSeek’s longest outage since 2025 disrupted millions, raising concerns about AI reliability and enterprise risk.

The outage marks the most significant downtime for DeepSeek since its R1 and V3 models gained massive popularity early last year,

DeepSeek experienced its longest outage as the AI chatbot went down for over seven hours on Sunday. DeepSeek has not disclosed the reason for the outage yet.

China's DeepSeek on Friday released a new AI model with "drastically reduced" costs that it said was capable of processing extra-long texts to help it complete tasks. The company caused shockwaves

The White House has accused China of stealing artificial intelligence technology from the US. US and Chinese tech firms have been locked in an arms race to develop the most powerful AI, with the latter being accused of illicitly training their systems using more advanced models – a process known as “distillation”.