August 16, 2026

DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

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The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls “marginally short” of GPT-5.4 and...