DeepSeek

MIT Technology Review says that after DeepSeek released R1 in January 2025, Chinese firms kept shipping open-weight models near top Western systems; Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5 was close to Anthropic Claude Opus on early benchmarks at about one-seventh the price. The post also says Qwen took over 30% of Hugging Face downloads in 2024 and surpassed Meta Llama in cumulative downloads by 2025–2026; the key shift is from a few general models to many fine-tunable, distillable variants.

The Republican chair of the House China committee said Nvidia gave DeepSeek technical support that helped improve a breakthrough AI model despite US export controls on high-end chips to China. The RSS snippet discloses the allegation and the regulatory context, but not the model name, support mechanism, timeline, or evidence. The key issue is not chip shipment alone, but whether technical collaboration undermined the controls' intent.

DeepSeek informally deployed a DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale API at unchanged pricing, supporting only conversation in thinking mode and no tool calling or other features. Users can reach the model by setting base_url="https://api.deepseek.com/v3.2_speciale_expires_on_20251215". Maximum output defaults to 128K, and the service runs until 23:59 Beijing time on December 15, 2025.

Both deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner have been upgraded to DeepSeek-V3.2. deepseek-chat maps to non-thinking mode, and deepseek-reasoner maps to thinking mode.