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Friday 18 September

1 development
00:11
DeepSeekResearch

Cactus Needle 3 claims small automation models match DeepSeek V4 Flash

Cactus Compute released Needle 3, automation models sized 8 to 29 MB. The company claims they can match DeepSeek V4 Flash.

1 community

Wednesday 9 September

1 development
11:19
DeepSeekLaunch

DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash on Hugging Face

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.

1 official3 coverage2 community

Monday 31 August

1 development
06:16
DeepSeekLaunch

DeepSeek releases V4 Flash Vision experimental model

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.

1 official

Friday 21 August

1 development
10:33
DeepSeekLaunch

DeepSeek releases v4 flash vision experimental model

DeepSeek published API documentation for a vision model called DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp. The model appears to add image understanding to the v4 flash line.

3 coverage1 community

Friday 7 August

1 development
17:56
DeepSeekLaunch

DeepSeek releases V4 Pro model on Hugging Face

DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 on Hugging Face under an MIT license. The model card lists text-generation, transformers, safetensors and deepseek_v4 tags.

1 official2 coverage2 community

Friday 31 July

1 development
06:08
DeepSeekLaunch

DeepSeek releases V4 Flash model on Hugging Face

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.

1 official2 coverage3 community
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