What were DeepSeek’s reported revenue and net loss during the first seven months of 2026 compared with its 2025 performance, how did the company describe its newest V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model relative to V4-Flash and Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, what pricing change accompanied the launch

DeepSeek reportedly generated about 475 million yuan ($70.7 million) in revenue in January–July 2026—more than ten times its full-year 2025 revenue—and posted a 715 million yuan net loss, narrowed from about 935 million yuan in 2025. 6

• V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: DeepSeek said its experimental vision model outperformed V4-Flash on multimodal-agent benchmarks and came close to Anthropic’s Opus 4.8. 43

• V4-Pro pricing: Alongside the frontier-model launch, DeepSeek raised API pricing for both V4-Pro and V4-Flash and introduced time-of-use peak and off-peak rates. The increases ranged from 50% to 1,100%, depending on model, token type, and time. 3

• Fundraising: In the resumed round, it was reportedly seeking roughly 50 billion yuan (about $8 billion), at an implied valuation of about 500 billion yuan ($74 billion). 7

The financial and resumed-round figures were reported rather than publicly confirmed by DeepSeek, so they should be treated as estimates. 67