DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that develops foundation models, publishes research and model weights, and operates consumer chat and developer API products. Its current API family includes generally available V4 Pro, text V4 Flash, and the separate experimental V4 Flash Vision Exp model. Bloomberg's July 31 Inner Mongolia data-center report remains secondary rather than first-party confirmation.
Readers need one stable company page that connects DeepSeek's chat product, API, open-weight releases, agent integrations, new vision surface, and reported infrastructure expansion without merging model identities or turning a media report into an official commitment.
DeepSeek's August 13 and August 21 official releases establish V4 Pro GA, peak/off-peak API pricing, the experimental Vision-Exp model, mixed image input, and a Files API. The GitHub organization remains the source for published research and weights; no Vision-Exp weights are published. Bloomberg's verified business account remains secondary evidence for the Inner Mongolia plan, not first-party confirmation of its scope or status.
- Understand DeepSeek as a company across chat, API, research, and open-weight releases.
- Navigate to current DeepSeek V4 model and agent-integration pages.
- Evaluate infrastructure reports without treating them as product-release facts.
- Separate company-level developments from model IDs, prices, and API availability.
DeepSeek's official surfaces connect three reader jobs: use DeepSeek Chat, call models through the developer API, and inspect research or model repositories. Current API choices include V4 Pro, text V4 Flash, and the separate experimental V4 Flash Vision Exp model for image input.
- Consumer surface: DeepSeek web chat and app links.
- Developer surface: API platform, documentation, pricing, and service status.
- Research surface: technical reports, model repositories, and released weights.
DeepSeek made V4 Pro generally available on app, web, and API on August 13 and introduced peak/off-peak prices on August 16. On August 21 it added `deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp`, an experimental hosted model for mixed text and image input, plus image support through base64, URLs, and the Files API. Text Flash and Pro remain separate text-only IDs.
Bloomberg reported that DeepSeek is planning to build a massive data center in Inner Mongolia as it competes with Silicon Valley model developers. DeepSeek's current official site and API documentation do not announce the project. The correct public status is therefore “Bloomberg-reported plan,” not “DeepSeek officially launched or completed a data center.”
The cited Bloomberg post does not by itself establish a one-gigawatt capacity, a precise city, chip supplier, budget, construction milestone, or 2027 completion date. Those details should remain out of the company page until they are supported by the underlying report, a filing, procurement record, or a first-party DeepSeek statement.
A planned data center may matter for future training capacity, inference supply, latency, and cost, but it does not automatically change a current model ID, price, context window, rate limit, or availability status. Use DeepSeek's API documentation and model-specific pages for current production decisions.
Text API and open-weight 0731 model with Responses support, Codex integration, and peak/off-peak pricing.
Experimental API-only multimodal model for mixed text and image input.
Long-context V4 hosted API model now mapped to the DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 backend.
Third-party terminal coding agent documented as a DeepSeek API integration.
Tesla China in-car AI feature whose localized stack has also been reported to use DeepSeek for some interactions.
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DeepSeek API Docs
DeepSeek API Docs
DeepSeek
DeepSeek API Docs
GitHub / deepseek-ai
Bloomberg
DeepSeek FAQ
Common questions about DeepSeek.
Is DeepSeek building a data center in Inner Mongolia?+
Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek is planning a massive AI data center in Inner Mongolia. DeepSeek has not published a matching first-party announcement on the official surfaces cited here, so treat it as a credible reported plan rather than a confirmed construction or completion milestone.
Does the reported data center change DeepSeek API pricing or models now?+
No current API change follows automatically from the report. Use DeepSeek's official API documentation for model IDs, prices, limits, and availability, and treat infrastructure plans as a separate company-level development.
Is every DeepSeek model open source?+
No single label covers every DeepSeek surface. DeepSeek publishes research, repositories, and model weights, while hosted chat and API products have separate service terms and model-specific licenses. Verify the exact repository, license, and deployment surface for each model.