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DeepSeek releases V4 Flash Vision experimental multimodal model

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DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal vision model available via its API. It matches V4-Flash on text and scores near Opus-4.8 on multimodal agent benchmarks, with images billed separately.

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  1. 2026-08-22 06:05 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    AI news digest — Aug 22: DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp scores near Opus-4.8 at flash pricing, Claude Security moves to Mythos 5 + $35M defender fund
  2. 2026-08-21 15:13 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is now live on the DeepSeek API Platform!
  3. 2026-08-21 13:57 · r/LocalLLM
    I ran DeepSeek-V4-Flash (284B params, 160GB checkpoint) from 3.2GB of RAM — streaming weights off NVMe in plain C99
  4. 2026-08-21 09:43 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision is now live !
  5. 2026-08-21 09:22 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
  6. 2026-08-21 00:00 · DeepSeek News
    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Release
  7. 2026-08-21 00:00 · Vercel Blog
    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway

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