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On October 17, 2026, DeepSeek launched two APIs, Search and Fetch. According to TMTPost, these two interfaces are driven by a self-developed search engine, charging 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests, with failed, no-result, or timed-out requests not billed; official billing starts on November 1; previously they were free to use in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, and Codex, each rate-limited to 5 requests per second. On October 18, DeepSeek issued an announcement stating that the DeepSeek API now supports web search and scraping, billed by number of requests at a unit price of 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests; accessing the Search and Fetch interfaces via server-side tool calls in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, and Codex is currently not billed, and will be charged per request starting at 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026. The announcement also explained that the Search interface returns structured results by query, and the Fetch interface scrapes a single web page and returns the title and body in Markdown; both are raw JSON APIs with the Base URL api.deepseek.com. Currently both interfaces are live, and billing has not yet started.
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DeepSeek completes a new funding round of about 100 billion yuan and is preparing for a STAR Market IPO
Multiple media outlets, citing Bloomberg, reported that DeepSeek completed a new funding round of about 100 billion yuan, with CATL and Tencent as the main investors; the round initially targeted 50 billion yuan, was later raised to 80 billion yuan, and was ultimately finalized at 100 billion yuan. The previous Series A was launched in April 2026 and closed in June, raising about 51 billion yuan at a valuation of 340 billion yuan, with Liang Wenfeng personally contributing 20 billion yuan and still holding close to 100% of voting rights. The article also mentions that DeepSeek has hired CITIC Securities to prepare for a STAR Market IPO, planning to submit its application as early as late 2026, with a valuation of 500 billion yuan after this funding round.
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