Topic — Artificial Intelligence DeepSeek Drops Cheaper V4 AI as Huawei Jumps In DeepSeek launches V4 AI model with Huawei chip support, offering lower costs and intensifying global AI competition. Image from: Solen Feyissa (Unsplash) DeepSeek rolled out a bigger AI model and cut the price — then Huawei showed up almost immediately to run it. The Chinese AI startup’s new V4 model is designed to compete with top systems from OpenAI and Google DeepMind while dramatically lowering costs. Huawei also pledged full support through its Ascend chips, signaling closer coordination between the model and the hardware it runs on. A larger model built for scale and lower cost The South China Morning Post reported that DeepSeek released two versions of its V4 model: a 1.6-trillion-parameter V4-Pro and a 284-billion-parameter V4-Flash. Both models support a context window of up to one million tokens, a major increase over earlier versions .…