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DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Launches, Nears Opus-4.8 in Multimodal Tests

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DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on its API, matching V4-Flash on text and scoring near Opus-4.8 on multimodal agent tasks at flash pricing. Local users report the model is surprisingly usable on modest hardware.

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Timeline · 2 reports

  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!

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