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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
DeepSeek has released V4 Flash and V4 Pro models that significantly narrow the performance gap with frontier AI models like GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1, while offering dramatically lower costs (up to 90% cheaper) and supporting 1 million token context windows for processing large codebases and documents. This competitive threat from an open-weight alternative fundamentally shifts the AI economics for enterprise deployments and could reshape vendor lock-in dynamics, but organizations should note the models trail in knowledge tasks and currently support text-only workloads. IT leaders must reassess AI infrastructure investments and vendor strategies given the accessibility of near-frontier performance at commodity pricing.
TechCrunch2 min read
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.