#deepseek

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash adds vision and lower prices. Compare 19 official benchmarks, agent frameworks and API costs; V4 Pro now continues past September 14.

DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp's weights under MIT on August 31, ten days after the API-only launch, with a reference implementation attached.

DeepSeek shipped a separate experimental V4 Flash vision model on August 21 at text prices, on a peak and off-peak clock that doubles the rate.

DeepSeek's vision model bills each image at up to 384 tokens with no vision surcharge, which turns a 20,000-SKU catalogue QA pass into arithmetic.

Three Chinese labs shipped major releases and their licence stories diverge. A buyer's scoreboard on weights, pricing schedules, and benchmark claims.

Time-of-day LLM pricing is arriving, and a cheaper window is not the same as a cheaper bill. How the announced schedules and peak hours actually work.

DeepSeek open-sourced its dsh agent harness under MIT: a developer preview at 0.1.0-rc.5, four runtime modes, and every part of the product a plugin.

DeepSeek's changelog now carries a GA entry for V4-Pro across app, web, and API, MIT-licensed 0813 weights on Hugging Face, and pricing changing August 16.

On August 12, DeepSeek's pricing page listed V4-Pro-0813 with no changelog entry and a homepage saying nothing had changed. GA was announced a day later.

GPT-5.6 Luna fell 80% and Terra 20% on July 30. Sonnet 5's scheduled $3/$15 increase was cancelled. OpenRouter list prices mix standard with batch rates.

One week repriced the cheap end of the model market. A surface-labelled table of what Luna, Qwen3.7 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Flash now cost, and what that buys.

Worked cost math for classification, extraction, dedup and translation at million-row scale, plus the benchmark evidence on where cheap models should not go.

DeepSeek V4 Flash adds OpenAI's Responses API alongside the Anthropic format it has run since 2025, so Codex CLI or Claude Code needs only a base-URL swap.

DeepSeek V4 Flash exits preview into public beta as the 0731 checkpoint: same 284B architecture, vendor-stated agent benchmarks, no weights posted yet.

DeepSeek aliases retired, MCP capabilities deprecated, Sora's API sunsetting — three unrelated clocks in one month. How to build a deprecation calendar.

DeepSeek retires its deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner API aliases on July 24, 2026 at 15:59 UTC. The confirmed migration steps, plus the claims to watch.

Hunt.io found Claude Code and DeepSeek-v4-pro wired into a suspected China-linked intrusion. The agent-governance controls that close the gap it exploited.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 caching overhaul, plus Anthropic and DeepSeek tiers, reshapes agent cost math. How to design cache-first, model-homogeneous agents.

US frontier-model gating is pushing global builders toward open-weight models China already dominates. Does Washington's lockdown hand Beijing the edge?

DeepSeek abandons its no-outside-capital stance in a ~$7.4B maiden round led by Tencent and CATL, valuing it near $59B and reshaping open-weight economics.

GPU spend, ops headcount, latency, and break-even volume for hosting Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Mistral yourself vs API. With per-token cost curves at 4 scales.

Q2 2026 market share report on Chinese AI providers — Qwen, GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, Baichuan, and Yi. Usage data, licensing, and enterprise adoption.

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of industrial-scale distillation via 24,000 fake accounts and 16M+ Claude exchanges. Full analysis inside.

DeepSeek V4 brings 1 trillion parameters, 1M token context, and Engram O(1) memory. Architecture details, leaked benchmarks, and what it means for developers.

DeepSeek-V3.1 guide preserved as historical 2025 context, with 2026 caveats for newer DeepSeek V3.2 and V4 reasoning models.