DeepSeek eyes STAR Market IPO, cuts Flash prices and teases V4.1Flash launch around Sept 10
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-10
Dense daily briefing: DeepSeek reportedly plans a STAR Market IPO with CITIC Securities (prior round 51B yuan, 400B yuan valuation) and slashes Flash pricing — cache-hit input 0.02 yuan (−60%), cache-miss 1 yuan (−33%), output 4 yuan (−11%) — while teasing V4.1Flash, claimed to beat V4Pro, around Sept 10. Tencent hires ex-OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong as Hunyuan multimodal lead. JD commits to 3M robots, 1M autonomous vehicles and 100K drones over five years. OpenAI's enterprise revenue has overtaken consumer (32% vs 20% annualized growth in Jun-Jul), with plans to move beyond per-token billing; Google pledges €13B+ in Finland. Anthropic's alignment lead says AI extinction risk exceeds 10% this decade after researcher Jacob Cockx resigned. Plus Meta's Muse agent, Ant's Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, and multiple funding rounds.
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