DeepSeek says its V4 model will have throughput issues until the second half of the year, until Ascend 950PR supernodes ‘ship at scale’.

The company says its cost-efficient new V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek has launched its long-awaited V4 LLM in preview, as speculation around a possible first funding round swirls.