DeepSeek debuts multimodal language model competitive with Opus 4.8
SiliconANGLE Maria Deutscher
DeepSeek debuted V4 Flash Vision Exp, a multimodal model in its V4 series sold through its paid developer platform at launch. It scored more than 10% higher than its predecessor on two image-analysis benchmarks and beat Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on two visual tests (ALE and ZeroBench). The release strengthens DeepSeek’s performance position in vision tasks, while architecture details were not disclosed beyond the underlying V4 Flash setup.
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DeepSeek today debuted a new addition to its flagship V4 series of large language models. On launch, V4 Flash Vision Exp is only available via the Chinese startup’s paid developer platform. The company may release a free version later on given that it has open-sourced many of its earlier models. Those models include V4 Flash, […] The post DeepSeek debuts multimodal language model competitive with Opus 4.8 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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