DeepSeek Releases Fourth Devastating AI Model; Silicon Valley Engineers Spotted Googling 'Is Finance Hiring'
PALO ALTO, CA — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled its fourth major model on Friday, promising dramatic improvements in reasoning and agentic capabilities, prompting what multiple sources describe as “a very quiet but very real panic” spreading through Silicon Valley’s open-plan offices like a silent, well-ventilated fog.
The new model, DeepSeek V4, features a 1-million-token context window, a novel Hybrid Attention Architecture, and the ability to autonomously write and deploy code — capabilities that several senior engineers at competing US labs described as “fine,” “completely fine,” and “I’m totally fine.”