DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence company developing open-weight foundation, reasoning, coding, multimodal, mathematical and agentic models alongside consumer chat and developer API services.
September 20265
Sep 10, 2026DeepSeek retires V4 Flash Vision ExpModel deprecation
DeepSeek retired the experimental V4 Flash Vision model and routed it to V4.1 Flash.
Sep 10, 2026DeepSeek retires V4 Flash API modelModel deprecation
DeepSeek retired V4 Flash and temporarily routed its model name to V4.1 Flash.
Sep 10, 2026DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash releasedModel release
DeepSeek released a smaller native-multimodal V4.1 architecture model with upgraded coding, reasoning and agents.
Sep 10, 2026DeepSeek cuts API pricing with V4.1 FlashPricing change
DeepSeek reduced API prices following the V4.1 Flash release.
Sep 9, 2026DeepSeek engages underwriters for potential mainland IPOAnnouncedIPO
DeepSeek reportedly moved toward a potential mainland listing while its next financing remained in progress.
August 20265
Aug 21, 2026DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1 releasedSDK release
DeepSeek released an updated agent harness with support for V4 Flash Vision.
Aug 21, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp releasedModel release
DeepSeek launched an experimental native multimodal V4 Flash model.
Aug 13, 2026DeepSeek API adds Responses API and thinking effort controlsAPI update
DeepSeek added native Responses API support and low, high and max thinking effort controls.
Aug 13, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Pro reaches general availabilityModel update
DeepSeek rolled out the GA V4 Pro model across app, web and API with stronger production agent capabilities.
Aug 6, 2026DeepSeek resumes second fundraising processAnnouncedNews
DeepSeek reportedly resumed a second round seeking close to $8B; it remained unclosed.
July 20263
Jul 31, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Flash public beta releasedModel update
DeepSeek released the official Flash API in public beta with upgraded coding and agent performance.
Jul 18, 2026DeepSeek plans second round targeting roughly $74B valuationAnnouncedFunding round
Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.
Jul 16, 2026Investor filing implies $51.82B DeepSeek valuationValuation
A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.
June 20262
Jun 16, 2026DeepSeek closes first external funding roundFunding round
DeepSeek reportedly raised more than RMB50B ($7.4B) in a founder-controlled structure at a valuation exceeding $50B.
Jun 3, 2026DeepSeek first outside funding round reported near closeAnnouncedFunding round
Reuters reported DeepSeek was set to raise about RMB50B from investors including Tencent and CATL, at a projected $52B-$59B post-money valuation.
April 20263
Apr 24, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Flash Preview enters APIAPI release
The efficient V4 Flash preview became available through DeepSeek's API.
Apr 24, 2026DeepSeek V4 preview launchesModel release
DeepSeek introduced the V4 family through Pro and Flash preview API models.
Apr 24, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Pro Preview enters APIAPI release
The V4 Pro preview became available through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.
January 20261
Jan 27, 2026DeepSeek-OCR2 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published its second-generation visual causal-flow OCR model.
December 20252
Dec 1, 2025DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale temporary endpoint launchesModel release
DeepSeek offered a temporary high-compute reasoning endpoint until December 15.
Dec 1, 2025DeepSeek-V3.2 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek upgraded chat and reasoner services to the production V3.2 model.
November 20251
Nov 27, 2025DeepSeekMath-V2 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released its self-verifiable mathematical reasoning model.
October 20252
Oct 20, 2025DeepSeek OCR research family introducedResearch paper
DeepSeek introduced its open OCR and document-understanding research family based on visual-text compression.
Oct 20, 2025DeepSeek-OCR releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published its optical-compression model for OCR and document understanding.
September 20252
Sep 29, 2025DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released the experimental V3.2 model with sparse attention.
Sep 22, 2025DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus releasedModel update
DeepSeek improved language consistency and its code and search agents.
August 20251
Aug 21, 2025DeepSeek-V3.1 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released a hybrid thinking model with improved reasoning efficiency and agent capabilities.
May 20251
May 28, 2025DeepSeek-R1-0528 releasedModel update
DeepSeek upgraded R1 with stronger reasoning, reduced hallucination and JSON/function-calling support.
April 20251
Apr 30, 2025DeepSeek-Prover-V2 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released 7B and 671B theorem-proving models and ProverBench.
March 20251
Mar 24, 2025DeepSeek-V3-0324 releasedModel update
DeepSeek upgraded V3 with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, search and function calling.
February 20252
Feb 17, 2025South Korea suspends new DeepSeek app downloadsPolicy & regulation
South Korea's privacy regulator suspended new downloads while reviewing personal-data protections.
Feb 4, 2025Australia bans DeepSeek on federal government devicesPolicy & regulation
Australia directed federal entities to remove and prevent DeepSeek products on government systems and devices.
January 202514
Jan 30, 2025Italy orders DeepSeek data-processing blockPolicy & regulation
Italy's data-protection authority ordered an immediate restriction on DeepSeek's processing of Italian users' personal data.
Jan 27, 2025Janus-Pro releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released scaled 1B and 7B Janus-Pro checkpoints with improved understanding and image generation.
Jan 27, 2025DeepSeek becomes top US free iPhone appEvent
DeepSeek's assistant reached number one among free iPhone applications in the United States as adoption surged.
Jan 27, 2025DeepSeek limits registrations after cyberattackNews
DeepSeek temporarily limited new registrations following a large-scale malicious cyberattack.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama 70B releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released the Llama 70B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama 8B releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released the Llama 8B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released the Qwen 14B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released the Qwen 1.5B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 7B releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released the Qwen 7B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released the Qwen 32B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published R1 under the MIT License and made it available on web and API.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1-Zero weights releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published its pure reinforcement-learning reasoning checkpoint.
Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek R1 reasoning family launchesResearch paper
DeepSeek introduced its reinforcement-learning reasoning model family and technical report.
Jan 10, 2025DeepSeek mobile app launchesProduct launch
DeepSeek released its consumer assistant for iOS and Android.
December 20244
Dec 26, 2024DeepSeek-V3 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3 weights and upgraded the deepseek-chat API.
Dec 26, 2024DeepSeek V3 family launchesResearch paper
DeepSeek introduced its 671B-parameter V3 mixture-of-experts architecture.
Dec 13, 2024DeepSeek-VL2 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published its second-generation mixture-of-experts vision-language models.
Dec 10, 2024DeepSeek-V2.5-1210 releasedModel update
The final V2.5 update improved mathematics, coding, writing, file handling and web-page summarization.
November 20241
Nov 13, 2024JanusFlow releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released JanusFlow using rectified flow for image generation.
October 20242
Oct 18, 2024Janus 1.3B releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released Janus 1.3B for multimodal understanding and image generation.
Oct 18, 2024Janus multimodal family introducedResearch paper
DeepSeek introduced the Janus family for unified multimodal understanding and generation.
September 20241
Sep 5, 2024DeepSeek-V2.5 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek merged its general and coding capabilities into V2.5 and published weights.
August 20242
Aug 15, 2024DeepSeek-Prover-V1.5 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released an improved formal theorem prover using reinforcement learning and search.
Aug 2, 2024DeepSeek API launches disk context cachingAPI update
DeepSeek introduced disk-based context caching to reduce repeated-token costs.
July 20242
Jul 25, 2024DeepSeek API adds function calling and FIMAPI update
The API gained JSON mode, function calling, chat-prefix completion and fill-in-the-middle completion.
Jul 24, 2024DeepSeek-Coder-V2-0724 releasedModel update
DeepSeek upgraded the deepseek-coder API to the July Coder V2 checkpoint.
June 20245
Jun 28, 2024DeepSeek-V2-0628 releasedModel update
DeepSeek updated its chat model with stronger code, math, reasoning and role-play performance.
Jun 17, 2024DeepSeek Coder V2 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released 16B and 236B mixture-of-experts coding models with 128K context.
Jun 14, 2024DeepSeek-Coder-V2-0614 API upgradeModel update
DeepSeek upgraded its coding API to the Coder V2 generation.
Jun 1, 2024DeepSeek-Prover open model releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published its first open theorem-proving model for Lean 4.
Jun 1, 2024DeepSeek-Prover research line introducedResearch paper
DeepSeek introduced its formal theorem-proving model research line.
May 20244
May 17, 2024DeepSeek-V2-0517 API updateModel update
DeepSeek upgraded deepseek-chat with improved instruction following, JSON output and RAG performance.
May 7, 2024DeepSeek API launchesAPI release
DeepSeek opened an OpenAI-compatible API for its chat and coding models.
May 6, 2024DeepSeek-V2 weights releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V2 base and chat weights with 128K context.
May 6, 2024DeepSeek V2 family launchesModel release
DeepSeek introduced its efficient second-generation mixture-of-experts architecture.
March 20242
Mar 11, 2024DeepSeek-VL family introducedResearch paper
DeepSeek introduced an open vision-language model family for real-world multimodal understanding.
Mar 11, 2024DeepSeek-VL open weights releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released 1.3B and 7B base and chat checkpoints.
February 20242
Feb 5, 2024DeepSeekMath 7B checkpoints releasedOpen weights
Base, instruction and reinforcement-learning DeepSeekMath 7B checkpoints were published.
Feb 5, 2024DeepSeekMath family introducedResearch paper
DeepSeek introduced its open mathematical reasoning research line.
January 20241
Jan 25, 2024DeepSeek Coder V1.5 releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released an updated 7B coding model that later served as the initialization for DeepSeekMath.
November 20239
Nov 29, 2023DeepSeek LLM 67B Base weights releasedModel release
DeepSeek LLM 67B Base became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.
Nov 29, 2023DeepSeek LLM family releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek published its first general-purpose 7B and 67B open language models.
Nov 29, 2023DeepSeek LLM 7B Base weights releasedModel release
DeepSeek LLM 7B Base became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.
Nov 29, 2023DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat weights releasedModel release
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.
Nov 29, 2023DeepSeek LLM 7B Chat weights releasedModel release
DeepSeek LLM 7B Chat became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.
Nov 2, 2023DeepSeek Coder checkpoints publishedModel release
Base and instruction-tuned DeepSeek Coder checkpoints were published for code completion and generation.
Nov 2, 2023DeepSeek Coder family releasedOpen weights
DeepSeek released its first open code-model family, spanning 1B to 33B parameters and trained on two trillion tokens.
Nov 1, 2023DeepSeek Chat launchesProduct launch
DeepSeek launched its web conversational assistant.
Nov 1, 2023DeepSeek consumer services launchProduct launch
DeepSeek began offering web-based access to its models through the DeepSeek Chat service.
July 20231
Jul 17, 2023DeepSeek company foundedNews
Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. was established by Liang Wenfeng as an AGI-focused research company originating from High-Flyer.
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