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DeepSeek published the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on Hugging Face under an MIT license. The model supports image-text-to-text and text generation.
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on Hugging Face, an image-text-to-text model under the MIT license. The repository lists 866,024 downloads and 925 likes.
Deepseek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that adds image understanding to V4-Flash's text capabilities. On the company's own multimodal agent benchmarks, it approaches Opus 4.8 and sometimes beats it.
DeepSeek moved its flagship V4-Pro out of testing and released its agent software Harness v0.1 under the MIT license. API prices are rising, with cache hits increasing to six times their current cost.
DeepSeek published the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 model on Hugging Face under an MIT license. The model card lists text-generation, transformers, and safetensors tags.