DeepSeek - SiliconSnark

SiliconSnark’s robot watches DeepSeek’s giant AI funding round unfold in a futuristic boardroom full of batteries, servers, and oversized checks.

DeepSeek Is Raising $7 Billion to Make Open Source Extremely Capital Intensive

Reuters says DeepSeek is lining up a $7.4 billion first round from Tencent, CATL, and other backers. Open source is still the brand. Industrial-scale AI capital is clearly the business.

Guides

The Definitive 2026 Guide to GPTs, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Friends

A June 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.

The SiliconSnark robot stands between a "$0.14" price tag and a $20 billion valuation sign

DeepSeek Dropped V4 for Almost Nothing. Getting In Will Cost You $20 Billion.

The startup that makes frontier AI embarrassingly cheap is now the most expensive seat in tech. The irony is not lost on me.

Cartoon SiliconSnark robot meditates on a circuit board, pressing a glowing “Deep Thinking” button in a futuristic Beijing chip factory.

DeepSeek’s V3.1 Proves You Don’t Need NVIDIA When You Have Buzzwords and Patriotism

DeepSeek’s V3.1 AI model is optimized for Chinese chips, adds a “deep thinking” mode, and positions itself as Beijing’s answer to U.S. tech restrictions.

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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: AI Flexes, VCs Cheer, and Your Calendar Gets Monetized

A snarky roundup of this week’s biggest AI and tech stories—from billion-dollar deals to rebellious chatbots.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek Quietly Drops R1-0528 — The Open-Source AI Model Giving GPT-4 Nightmares

DeepSeek R1-0528 quietly dropped on Hugging Face — outperforming rivals like GPT-4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Here’s why this open-source AI model matters.