According to DeepSeek's technical report, on April 30, the company introduced Visual Primitives, a method that embeds basic visual units such as points and bounding boxes into reasoning chains to address the Reference Gap problem in multimodal tasks. The method reduces image token consumption

According to Alibaba Cloud, its Bailian platform will reduce the pricing for DeepSeek-V4-Pro model's implicit cache (Implicit Cache) to 1 yuan per million tokens effective April 29, 2026 at 23:59:59 Beijing time. Implicit cache only applies when requests hit the cache; cached input tokens are

According to PANews, DeepSeek launched its image recognition feature today (April 29), currently in beta testing. Both the web version and mobile app users may be selected for the beta rollout.

On April 29, DeepSeek multimodal team researcher Xiaokang Chen posted on X: "Now, we see you," accompanied by two images of the DeepSeek whale mascot—one with closed eyes, the other with open eyes. The post appears to hint at an upcoming vision model, aligning with Chen's role as a researcher in Dee

Gate News message, April 28 — According to Qichacha data, DeepSeek (Hangzhou Deepseek AI Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd.) increased its registered capital from 10 million yuan to 15 million yuan. Founder Liang Wenfeng's registered capital contribution rose from 1 million yuan to 5.1 million yuan

Gate News message, April 27 — DeepSeek announced a 75% discount on its new V4-Pro model for developers and reduced input cache hit prices across its API lineup to one-tenth of previous levels. The V4 model, released on April 25 in Pro and Flash versions, has been optimized for Huawei's Ascend

Gate News message, April 27 — DeepSeek postponed the release of its V4 model to fine-tune its software stack for Huawei's Ascend chips, reflecting Beijing's broader initiative to develop a domestic AI supply chain as access to advanced foreign semiconductors becomes increasingly constrained. DeepSe

Gate News message, April 26 — DeepSeek has reduced input cache prices across its entire model lineup to one-tenth of launch prices, effective immediately. The V4-Pro model is available at a limited-time 2.5x discount, with the promotion running through May 5, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC+8. Following both re

Gate News message, April 25 — DeepSeek-V4 preview version went live and open-sourced on April 25, with Baidu Qianfan platform under Baidu Intelligent Cloud providing Day 0 API service adaptation. The model features a million-token extended context window and is available in two versions: DeepSeek-V4

Gate News message, April 26 — DeepSeek announced a limited-time 75% discount on V4-Pro API pricing, valid until May 5 at 15:59 UTC. After the discount, pricing per million tokens is: input cache hit $0.03625