# DeepSeek's V4 family is the company's most ambitious release since its R1 model rattled global markets in early 2025.

*semiconductor · news · 2026-04-27 · Business Today*

## Key points

- DeepSeek's V4 models are optimised for Huawei chips, not Nvidia GPUs, for the first time.
- V4-Pro activates only 49 billion parameters per token, cutting compute costs substantially.
- V4-Pro pricing is up to 50 times cheaper than comparable models like Claude Opus.
- Huawei announced full support for DeepSeek V4 across its Ascend chips after the launch.
- V4-Pro offers a 1 million token context window, a significant increase over previous models.

**Companies:** Nvidia, Huawei Technologies, DeepSeek
**Countries:** China, United States

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