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DeepSeek

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Chinese frontier AI lab known for efficient open-weight reasoning and coding models. observed

fresh · evidence 6d ago 12 sources no confidence data
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downloads / week
Developer
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momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings

Composite signal v0 insufficient evidence — 1 of 5 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. Scores publish at 2+ evidence lanes; this company's tape carries 1 (61 signals/60d), so no number is claimed.

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.streets.deepseek.ai product surface 06-13

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11 independent sources 1 promoted signal latest signal 2026-07-16 inspect the evidence →

Intelligence signals registry · promoted

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The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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What people are saying 17 signals from 5 voices
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Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.2

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 2091 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 2091 DeepSeek v4 2026-04-24 ↗

Raw observations 36 records
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name DeepSeek observed notion 2026-07-22 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 2091 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971", "title": "DeepSeek v4", "points": 2091, "created_at": "2026-04-24"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971", "title": "DeepSeek v4", "points": 2091, "created_at": "2026-04-24"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-24 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971", "title": "DeepSeek v4", "points": 2091, "created_at": "2026-04-24"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-24 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971", "title": "DeepSeek v4", "points": 2091, "created_at": "2026-04-24"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-24 normalized 0.20
description Chinese frontier AI lab known for efficient open-weight reasoning and coding models. observed notion 2026-07-22 normalized 0.60
index.ai_tie PURE_AI observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
registry.signals [{"claim": "Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model claiming to be the world's largest, with benchmarks rivaling top proprietary systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.", " observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-22 superseded 0.60
registry.signals [{"claim": "Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model claiming to be the world's largest, with benchmarks rivaling top proprietary systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.", " observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-07 normalized 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-08-08 normalized 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KYCR0FWHDNNY6R4HW6M5VH39", "signals": [{"quote": "there's substantial evidence that what deep seek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of open ai's models and observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-29 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06N3PZEBJ0H0AS6V62YPGJ1", "signals": [{"quote": "this idea that they spent six million dollars probably leaves out hundreds of thousands of illegally imported h100s vi observed artifact ↗ 2025-02-01 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06N3PZEBJ0H0AS6V62YPGJ1", "signals": [{"quote": "software will become more efficient as we saw with r1 using maybe more commoditized hardware less generation of hardwa observed artifact ↗ 2025-02-01 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "So what we have seen here is power of open source. The hosted version of deep seek R one has clear lines around what i observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "deep seas work a gift to the world", "stance": "bullish", "signal_class": "endorsement", "speaker_name": "Mark Andrees observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "pro America technologists openly supporting a Chinese model that was trained off of leading us frontier models with ch observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "And then he, Aaron Levy points out that deep seek is cheap and also blowing up. And he says, all this points to the ra observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "right before we came on air, uh, deep sea dropped a new model.", "stance": "neutral", "signal_class": "fact_claim", "s observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "it's called, uh, Janus pro seven B it makes images.", "stance": "neutral", "signal_class": "fact_claim", "speaker_name observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "the rain on everyone's parade from deep seek is still raining.", "stance": "neutral", "signal_class": "assessment", "s observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "Great to get a kick in the ass. It's good for the industry. I think America still wins the day. I think open source st observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "I think it's going to be open source all the way.", "stance": "bullish", "signal_class": "prediction", "speaker_name": observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "Maybe they released V3 back in December. R1 came out in January, but it's more like they just had some breakthroughs a observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "keep in mind, deep seek is the subsidiary of a hedge fund. That hedge fund subsidiary just moved the market.", "stance observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "they did all, all the work to make an awesome AI model and then it happened to be so good that it changed the conversa observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M06NEEM9Q24N0RD8AXVEZM74", "signals": [{"quote": "but they did move the market and hedge funds love to move the opposite direction because they're a hedge.", "stance": observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0797B8660FSB38PKCG8Q8PH", "signals": [{"quote": "This is a Chinese company actually called deep seek. And, um, they have this new model, uh, very small, only 7 billion observed artifact ↗ 2024-03-21 promoted 0.50
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