Sharp Price Hikes, Harness Breaks 50,000 Stars Overnight: DeepSeek Sheaths the Butcher’s Knife and Picks Up the Abacus

In the week of mid-August, DeepSeek made three consecutive moves. On the evening of August 12, the official version of its flagship model, DeepSeek-V4-Pro (DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813), quietly went online, with the official WeChat account making a formal announcement the next day,…