All companiesCOMPANY / FRONTIER COVERAGEDeepSeekTYPECompanySIGNALS3FIRST SEENOct 29, 2026LAST SEENOct 29, 2026Recent signalsSources: DeepSeek doubled its latest round's size due to surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices, with Chinese state-owned investors representing 27% (The Information) Oct 29, 2026Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race Oct 29, 2026Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot AI heavily relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models like Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017, after Anthropic's crackdown (The Information) Oct 29, 2026RELATEDKimi K3.1 ProMistralOpenAIMistral Large 4AI ChipsMoonshot AIGPT-6 AstraOpen-weight modelsALL COMPANIESLATEST SIGNAL