Entity

DeepSeek

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

As of 23 Oct 2026Last evidence 22 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Trump Administration Orders Federal Agencies to Remove China's DeepSeek AI from Government Systems

    Reported event · first reported 17 Oct 2026 to 19 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 21 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

  • 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 4 events and claims involving DeepSeek

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 41 mentions on 22 Oct 2026, against 9 on 29 Sept 2026 (+356%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 20 Oct 2026 (2 changes recorded since 13 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 22 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

589 documents · 148 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 22 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.046: about 95% of mentions carry no typed assertion

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.

AIChinaAnthropicOpenAINvidiaGoogleMetaGemini
  • AI · 513 shared documents
  • China · 355 shared documents
  • Anthropic · 310 shared documents
  • OpenAI · 296 shared documents
  • Nvidia · 181 shared documents
  • Google · 179 shared documents
  • AI model · 133 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Meta · 133 shared documents
  • Qwen · 127 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Gemini · 112 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 41 mentions on 22 Oct 2026 with 9 on 29 Sept 2026 (+356%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +356% from 8 Sept 2026 to 22 Oct 2026, between 7 and 47 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions DeepSeek, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/18937ab9e77a7bbb72d184bc returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name deepseek.

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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.

  • Trump Administration Orders Federal Agencies to Remove China's DeepSeek AI from Government Systems

    Reported event · first reported 17 Oct 2026 to 19 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    Show the 3 individual claims
    • Trump Administration Orders Federal Agencies to Remove China's DeepSeek AI from Government Systems · corroborated · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 8 separate publishers
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Specs, Benchmarks, Pricing and Frontier Rivals · corroborated · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 7 separate publishers
    • US orders removal of China's DeepSeek products from federal civilian agencies · corroborated · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 21 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

  • 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

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DeepSeek

Entity.

Evidence
589 documents · 148 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 22 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
23 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

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What it connects to

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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 13 Oct 2026, newest first.

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