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title: "DeepSeek"
type: entity
entity_type: company
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/deepseek
updated: 2026-10-30T04:01:16.000Z
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# DeepSeek

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/deepseek

- **Type:** Company
- **Signals:** 6
- **First seen:** Oct 23, 2026
- **Last seen:** Oct 30, 2026

## Recent signals

- [CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine (Kevin Collier/NBC News)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/crowdstrike-china-linked-hackers-used-ai-tool-artex-with-a-deepseek-27563b88) (Oct 30, 2026)
- [Sources: 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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-deepseek-doubled-its-latest-rounds-size-due-to-surging-black-b420420c) (Oct 29, 2026)
- [Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/mistral-says-its-ai-model-le-chonk-has-leapfrogged-china-in-the-open-af58897a) (Oct 29, 2026)
- [Sources: 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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-deepseek-and-moonshot-ai-heavily-relied-on-gpt-6-astra-16b05634) (Oct 29, 2026)
- [Moonshot Debuts First AI Upgrade Since Its Own DeepSeek Moment](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/moonshot-debuts-first-ai-upgrade-since-its-own-deepseek-moment-5614d627) (Oct 23, 2026)
- [Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls (Bloomberg)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/chinese-state-media-deepseek-and-minimax-completed-registration-and-8835ab4a) (Oct 23, 2026)

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- [Open-weight models](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/open-weight-models) (Topic)
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- [AI Chips](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-chips) (Topic)
- [GPT-6 Astra](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/gpt-6-astra) (Model)

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