Type: AI model
DeepSeek V4 Flash is the lighter, lower-cost variant of DeepSeek’s V4 series previewed April 2026, a mixture-of-experts model with about 284B total and 13B active parameters and a 1-million-token context window. It targets fast, inexpensive inference relative to V4 Pro. GROUNDING tracks DeepSeek V4 Flash’s pricing, benchmarks, and open-weight availability.
Recent Updates
- 2026-06-29: tau-Rec proposes a verifiable benchmark for agentic recommender systems (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — Agents LLM Evals OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · DeepSeek · arXiv Bharath Sivaram Narasimhan · GPT-5.4 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gemini 2.5 Flash · Qwen3-32B · GPT-5-mini
- 2026-06-29: DeepSeek V4 is slated for mid-July with peak-hour API pricing (Hacker News) · kucoin.com — DeepSeek ME News BlockBeats KuCoinFlash · Hacker News · DeepSeek V4 · DeepSeek V4 Pro
- 2026-06-30: ParametricSkills turns textual skills into LoRA adapters at test time (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — Agents Context Engineering Code Agents OpenCode · DeepSeek Chollet
- 2026-06-30: Latent Space recap highlights Cursor remote agents, open-weight access, and Meta Brain2Qwerty v2 (Latent.Space) · latent.space — Agents Code Agents Tool Use LLM Evals Open Source LLMs Latent Space AIEWF · Meta · Cursor · Cline · Cognition · Arena · DeepSeek · Qwen · MiniMax JeanRemiKing kimmonismus Garry Tan stalkermustang teortaxesTex Brain2Qwerty v2 · DeepSeek V4 Pro · Qwen3-4B
- 2026-06-30: UBS-reported shift toward Chinese models for worker agents (AI Projects) · t.me — Open Source LLMs UBS Microsoft · Anthropic · OpenAI · DeepSeek · Claude
- 2026-07-01: AutoTrainess packages workflows for autonomous LM post-training (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — Agents Tool Use LLM Evals Context Engineering GPT-5.4
- 2026-07-01: Case study: using an AI subagent to debug a large Comfy workflow project (AI Projects) · t.me — Code Agents Agents Tool Use Context Engineering GLM-5.2
- 2026-07-02: Using pseudographics to expose what an AI agent intends to do (AI Projects) · t.me — Agents
- 2026-07-04: A post arguing that code documentation matters less than architecture for AI coding agents (AI Projects) · t.me — Code Agents Context Engineering Codebase Indexing LLM Evals DeepSeek
- 2026-07-04: A Russian RAG splitter that returns boundary indexes instead of rewritten text (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — Chunking RAG Embeddings Dify · Unsloth · DeepSeek · Milvus · Qdrant T-lite-it-2.1 context-aware-splitter-1b · TinyLlama · LLaMA-2 · Qwen2.5
- 2026-07-05: DSpark port on 2x DGX Spark surfaces a one-line bug and longer-context benchmarks (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — LLM Evals Long Context DeepSeek · Hugging Face · Habr botAGI tonyd2wild DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark
- 2026-07-07: IDE agents can support richer interactive artifacts than plain chat (AI Projects) · t.me — Code Agents Tool Use Context Engineering DeepSeek · VS Code Kilo Code
- 2026-07-08: DAIR.AI highlights OpenCode usage stats and notes strong subagent performance from deepseek-v4-flash (DAIR.AI) · twitter.com — Agents Code Agents Tool Use DAIR.AI · OpenCode · DeepSeek omarsar0 · GLM-5.2
- 2026-07-14: SETA proposes verifiable RL environments for terminal agents (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — Agents LLM Evals arXiv · Qwen3-8B
- 2026-07-14: FATE is a specialized 8B model for evaluating AI tutors (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals arXiv FATE · Gemini 2.5 Flash ChatGPT 5.5 Instant · Claude Sonnet 4.6
- 2026-07-15: AINews digest: Codex usage surge, agent harness observability, and heavily quantized open models for local agents (Latent.Space) · latent.space — Code Agents Agents Tool Use LLM Evals Open Source LLMs Long Context OpenAI · JetBrains · LangChain · PrismML · Tencent OpenMOSS Locally AI · Latent.Space Richard MacManus Addy Osmani · GPT-5.6 · Qwen 3.6-27B · Bonsai 27B Hy3 · Gemma 4 · Qwen3.5-122B-A10B · GLM-4.7-Flash · GLM-5.2 · Mimo v2.5 MOSS-VL-Realtime
- 2026-07-16: When Reasoning Hurts: Source-Aware Evaluation of Frontier LLMs for Clinical SOAP Note Generation (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — RAG LLM Evals Faizan Faisal GPT-5.4 · Gemma 4 E4B
- 2026-07-19: Kimi K3 demand spikes on OpenRouter as practical tests reportedly outperform academic benchmarks (@turboproject) · t.me — LLM Evals OpenRouter · DeepSeek · Huawei · Kimi K3 · Fable Code Arena Creative Writing
- 2026-07-20: OpenRouter token demand appears to be shifting toward faster, cheaper models (@turboproject) · t.me — Agents Context Engineering OpenRouter · DeepSeek · Kimi K3 · Claude Fable
- 2026-07-22: GigaToken claims ~1000x faster language model tokenization (Hacker News) · github.com — Hugging Face · AMD · Apple Qwen/Qwen3-8B · LLaMA-3 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.2 · Llama 3.3 Qwen 2 · Qwen 2.5 · Qwen 3 · DeepSeek-V3 · DeepSeek-V3.1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · DeepSeek R1 · DeepSeek V4 Pro GLM-4 GLM 4.1V GLM-4.5 · GLM-4.7 · GLM-5 · GLM-5.2 · GLM-4.7-Flash Nemotron 3 · Nemotron 3 Nano · Nemotron 3 Super · Nemotron 3 Ultra · Kimi K2 · kimi-k2.5 · kimi-k2.6 · Kimi K2.7 Phi-4-mini Phi-4-multimodal · TinyLlama · Phi-3
FAQ
What is DeepSeek V4 Flash?
DeepSeek V4 Flash is the lighter, lower-cost variant of DeepSeek’s V4 series previewed April 2026, a mixture-of-experts model with about 284B total and 13B active parameters and a 1-million-token context window. It targets fast, inexpensive inference relative to V4 Pro. GROUNDING tracks DeepSeek V4 Flash’s pricing, benchmarks, and open-weight availability.
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Dated radar mentions, source links, related concepts, and builder-relevant context for DeepSeek V4 Flash, collected automatically by GROUNDING.
When was DeepSeek V4 Flash last mentioned?
DeepSeek V4 Flash was most recently mentioned in a radar update dated 2026-07-22.
Category: Text / Language Models