DeepSeek V5 rumors unmasked: V4.1-Flash brings Causal Enc-Dec, 890B/tok KV cache & 8B/16B MoE at $0.15/M on 160K Ascends. Frontier AI at 10X lower cost.
DeepSeek is training an 8-trillion-parameter MoE model on 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips. CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors the domestic chip bet “has to work.”