Entity

DeepSeek

A Chinese AI lab known for competitive, low-cost open-weight models.

As of 21 Oct 2026Last evidence 21 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 20 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • US orders removal of China's DeepSeek products from federal civilian agencies

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • DeepSeek released an updated V4.1-Flash model with higher scores and shorter outputs

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 6 events and claims involving DeepSeek

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 46 mentions on 21 Oct 2026, against 9 on 29 Sept 2026 (+411%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 20 Oct 2026 (2 changes recorded since 11 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 20 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

547 documents · 142 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 21 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.046: about 95% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside DeepSeek

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AIChinaAnthropicOpenAIGoogleNvidiaGemini
  • AI · 476 shared documents
  • China · 325 shared documents
  • Anthropic · 291 shared documents
  • OpenAI · 280 shared documents
  • Google · 170 shared documents
  • Nvidia · 167 shared documents
  • AI models · 149 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI model · 129 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Qwen · 119 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Gemini · 106 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 46 mentions on 21 Oct 2026 with 9 on 29 Sept 2026 (+411%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +411% from 8 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026, between 7 and 47 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions DeepSeek, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about DeepSeek yet. Ask about DeepSeek

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

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Events involving DeepSeek

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 20 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • US orders removal of China's DeepSeek products from federal civilian agencies

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • DeepSeek released an updated V4.1-Flash model with higher scores and shorter outputs

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Specs, Benchmarks, Pricing and Frontier Rivals

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from DeepSeek

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DeepSeek

Entity.

Evidence
547 documents · 142 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 18 Apr 2026, last seen 21 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
21 Oct 2026
16 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (5)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (1)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names DeepSeek, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about DeepSeek

Markets whose question is about DeepSeek or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to DeepSeek and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

Recorded history

  • 20 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 6 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 6 Oct 2026

2 changes recorded since 11 Oct 2026, newest first.

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 21 Oct 2026.