A year after rattling Silicon Valley with its technology, China’s DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model, calling it the most powerful open-source platform in a challenge to rivals from OpenAI to Anthropic PBC.

DeepSeek released its new model just days after Moonshot AI, another Chinese start-up, introduced its latest open-source model, Kimi 2.6. While these systems trail the coding capabilities of the leading U.S. models from Anthropic and OpenAI, the gap is narrowing.

DeepSeek has released its newest artificial intelligence (AI) model, DeepSeek-V4, promising drastically lower computing and memory costs for users and developers.

As DeepSeek releases its first major new artificial intelligence model in over a year—DeepSeek-V4—here are five things to know about the Chinese startup:

The US has warned allies about alleged AI data misuse by Chinese firms like DeepSeek, raising concerns over privacy and model copying, as per Reuters.

A report from Microsoft in January showed the use of DeepSeek has been gaining ground in many developing nations.

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.