DeepSeek debuted V4 Flash Vision Exp, a multimodal large language model available on its paid developer platform, which outperformed Anthropic PBCC's Opus 4.8 on two visual benchmarks (ALE and ZeroBen…
DeepSeek raised its V4 Flash API price by 93 percent on August 14, from $0.14 to $0.27 per million input tokens, while OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80 percent to $0.20 per million and made it th…
DeepSeek introduced peak and off-peak pricing for its API, with peak hours set to 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, doubling costs during those windows. For V4 Flash, off-peak rates are $0.007 per cach…
DeepSeek's V4 Flash model, launched July 31, topped AI leaderboards but completed only 53.8% of complex agent tasks in independent testing by Composio, with 129 of 240 runs passing across 30 multi-ste…
DeepSeek introduced time-of-day pricing with peak and off-peak rates, where off-peak is 50% lower than peak but still higher than previous flat rates, effectively raising baseline prices. A developer …
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's API price by 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on July 30, 2026, and Anthropic made Claude Sonnet 5's $2/$10 per-million-token price p…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 1,100% effective August 16 at 16:00 UTC, with V4 Pro cached input tokens jumping from $0.0036 to $0.044 per million during peak hours, a 1,113% increase. The compan…
DeepSeek has released its V4 Pro model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active per token, now generally available under an MIT license across its web platform, mobile app, and API. Th…
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday formally released its official V4 Pro model, aiming to regain ground against fast-moving domestic rivals as it expands hiring, computing ca…
DeepSeek's V4 Flash 0731, a 284B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 13B active parameters and a native 1M-token context under an MIT license, is cheaper to use via the API than to run locally, ac…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek launched V4 Flash, an open-weight code-generation model under the MIT License, priced at approximately 28 cents for coding output that costs $25 on Anthropic's Claude Opus …
China's DeepSeek is recruiting developers to beta test DeepSeek Harness, software that turns language models into autonomous agents, as its V4 Flash model sends another cost-efficiency shock wave thro…
A developer's analysis shows that the same DeepSeek V4 Flash model produces different long-task outcomes depending on the agent runtime, such as Codex versus Claude Code. The developer argues that the…
OpenAI cut the API price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on July 30, from $1.00 to $0.20 per million input tokens and from $6.00 to $1.20 per million output tokens, in a direct response to DeepSeek's launch of…
DeepSeek shipped the public beta of V4 Flash on July 31 with no architecture changes — same 284B MoE, 1M-token context — but a retraining-only round boosted Terminal Bench 25.8 points to 82.7, Toolath…
DeepSeek's V4 Flash model graduated from preview to official public-beta release on 31 July 2026, with post-training improvements that boosted its Toolathlon score from 51.8 to 70.3 on DeepSeek's own …
A new benchmark, AgentRE-Bench, evaluating LLM agents on binary reverse-engineering tasks with no source code and deterministic scoring, finds that a small non-thinking model, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, l…
A cloud architect evaluated four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—in a multi-region production pipeline serving thousands of requests per second via Global API's unified endpoint. De…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashed pricing for its flagship V4-Pro model by 75%, reducing costs to as low as $0.003625 per million tokens, effective immediately through a permanent efficiency-driven …
Based on the article, the author tested four Chinese AI APIs—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—to determine which offers the best value for money. DeepSeek V4 Flash is highlighted as the top choice for En…