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Deepseek topped Ramp's list of fastest-growing software vendors in June 2026, driven by US companies seeking cheaper AI. Ramp's chief economist Ara Kharazian warned about security risks of using Chinese models directly and questioned the trend's durability. Deepseek's V4 model costs a fraction of Western rivals but trails in overall performance.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek announced it will permanently apply a 75% discount on its flagship V4-Pro model, a price cut originally scheduled to expire at the end of May. The move is expected to intensify competition in the global AI market as Chinese firms aggressively court developers with lower pricing.
Deepseek has made its 75 percent discount on the flagship Deepseek V4 Pro model permanent, slashing output token prices to $0.87 per million versus $30 for GPT-5.5. The move intensifies the price war between Chinese and Western AI labs, with Deepseek offering output tokens at roughly 34.5 times less than OpenAI's top model. The permanent pricing, originally set to expire May 31, 2026, also undercuts Anthropic's Opus 4.7 by a similar margin on output tokens.
Osaurus, an open-source Apple-only LLM server, lets Mac users switch between local and cloud AI models while keeping files and tools on their hardware. It evolved from a desktop AI companion called Dinoki and supports models like Llama, DeepSeek V4, and cloud providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The tool offers a secure sandbox, over 20 plugins, and has seen more than 112,000 downloads since launch.
DeepClaude lets users run Claude Code's autonomous agent loop using DeepSeek V4 Pro or other backends, cutting costs by 17 times compared to the original $200 monthly plan. It keeps the same terminal interface and features like file editing and bash execution while swapping the model backend. Setup takes two minutes with an API key, and it supports OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, and Anthropic options.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek launched a preview of its V4 model, featuring longer prompt handling and open-source access. The model offers strong performance at low costs, a 1 million token context window, and optimization for Chinese chips like Huawei's Ascend. It builds on R1's success while addressing efficiency and hardware independence.
DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model, set for open-source release, which excels in code generation and outperforms other open-source systems per Vals AI tests. This follows the company's January 2025 model that disrupted the industry with low-cost development. Chinese firms like Moonshot AI continue narrowing the gap with U.S. leaders OpenAI and Anthropic.
DeepSeek released preview versions of DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro, mixture-of-experts models with 1 million token contexts. The Pro version features 1.6 trillion parameters, the largest open-weight model. They match top models on reasoning and coding benchmarks while offering lower prices.