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Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks

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Deepseek has 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. The article Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model t…

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  1. 2026-08-21 19:08 · The Decoder
    Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks

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