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
- 2026-08-12: Grok 4.6 Reaches Frontier Performance, but Market Chooses Fast and Cheap for Agents (AI Projects) · t.me — Agents OpenAI · Anthropic · OpenRouter · DeepSeek · Grok 4.6
- 2026-08-12: DeepSeek API adds OpenAI Responses API format support (Hacker News) · api-docs.deepseek.com — DeepSeek · OpenAI
- 2026-08-13: DeepSeek V4 Pro official release claims state-of-the-art performance on coding and agent benchmarks (量子位) · qbitai.com — DeepSeek · Anthropic · OpenAI · DeepSeek V4 Pro · Opus 4.8 · Fable 5 · GLM-5.2 · Kimi K3
- 2026-08-13: DeepSeek Harness: open-source agent framework with plugin-first architecture (量子位) · qbitai.com — Agents Code Agents DeepSeek · Anthropic · OpenAI
- 2026-08-16: Qwen3.8-27B outperforms 304-billion-parameter model on custom benchmark (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — LLM Evals Selectel · Qwen3.8-27B · Qwen3-32B · Qwen3-30B-A3B · Gemini · GPT-5.1 · Claude Opus 4.8
- 2026-08-16: Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (Hacker News) · w4g1.dev — RAG Artificial Analysis · GLM-5.2 · Qwen3.5 · GPT-4 · Gemini 2.5 Pro · Phi-4
- 2026-08-20: Building a Custom Watch Face with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch (Hacker News) · mikekasberg.com — Code Agents Agents Open Source LLMs Steve Ruiz levelsio Claude · Kimi K3 · kimi-k2.6 · DeepSeek V4 Pro · Fable
- 2026-08-20: Every Model Cheats: Prompt-Level Mitigation of Cheating on Offensive Cyber Tasks (Hacker News) · dreadnode.io — LLM Evals Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · xAI · DeepSeek · Alibaba · z.ai · NIST HackTheBox · e2b Michael Kouremetis · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Opus 4.7 · Claude Opus 4.6 · Claude Sonnet 5 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Claude Haiku 4.5 · GPT 5.5 · GPT-5.4 · GPT-5.4-mini · Gemini-3.1-Pro · Gemini 3 Flash · Grok 4.20 · Grok 4.3 · DeepSeek V4 Pro · DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen 3-7 Max Qwen 3.6 Max · Qwen 3.6 Plus Qwen3-Coder-Next · GLM-5.1 GLM-5-turbo
- 2026-08-24: Intent Engine translates natural-language intents into validated SLO artifacts (breakingnewsofficial) · arxiv.org — RAG LLM Evals GPT-4.1-mini · Claude Sonnet 4.5
- 2026-08-25: Behavioral Fingerprinting Identifies Ox Alpha as GLM-5 Variant (breakingnewsofficial) · ctgt.ai — LLM Evals OpenRouter · z.ai · DeepSeek · Ox Alpha GLM-5.x · GPT-OSS 120B
- 2026-08-26: Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Released: Efficient 125B Model for Local Deployment (breakingnewsofficial) · qwen.ai — Open Source LLMs DeepSeek Qwen 3.8 Flash Next · Qwen 3.8 27B Qwen 4
- 2026-08-26: Testing 2-bit Quantization of DeepSeek V4 Flash on RTX PRO 6000 (breakingnewsofficial) · habr.com — Open Source LLMs Qwen3.8-27B Ornith1.5-35B
- 2026-08-28: Where vs What: Decomposing Structural and Content Failures in LLM-Generated Structured Outputs (breakingnewsofficial) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals Qwen2.5-7B
- 2026-08-29: FreeToken: Running Frontier MoE Models Locally on Consumer Hardware (breakingnewsofficial) · github.com — Open Source LLMs Agents Code Agents Anthropic · OpenAI FlashML Yang, Shuo Fan, Xiaoze Pan, Melissa Xi, Haocheng Wang, Zhe Sun, Shanlin Keutzer, Kurt Han, Song Zaharia, Matei Xu, Chenfeng Stoica, Ion · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B · GLM-5.2
- 2026-09-01: Archify: AI-Powered Architecture Diagrams for Claude Code and Cursor (breakingnewsofficial) · qbitai.com — Code Agents Manus ByteDance Yuanfudao Cz Chen
- 2026-09-03: CS Students Without Token Access Should Quit: Inside a Professor’s AI-Driven Software Engineering Course (breakingnewsofficial) · qbitai.com — Code Agents Tool Use Agents Nanjing University · DeepSeek Cosmic Dawn AI Jiang Yanyan Doubao
- 2026-09-04: KC-Bench: Evaluating Knowledge Conflicts in LLM Agents (breakingnewsofficial) · arxiv.org — Agents Tool Use LLM Evals GLM-5.2 · MiniMax M3
- 2026-09-07: China’s First Office Agent User Behavior Report: Programming Adoption and Autonomous Execution Accelerate (breakingnewsofficial) · qbitai.com — Agents Netease Youdao Quantum Bit
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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When was DeepSeek V4 Flash last mentioned?
DeepSeek V4 Flash was most recently mentioned in a radar update dated 2026-09-07.
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