Tag: deepseek
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DeepSeek Ships V4.1-Flash-1017: Faster Agents, Same Price
DeepSeek replaced V4.1-Flash with DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17, 2026, shipping the new checkpoint to its website, mobile app and API the same day and publishing MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope. DeepSeek calls it a minor update; it improves all eleven benchmarks in the company’s comparison table, shortens outputs, and leaves API pricing unchanged. […]
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EngramEdit Rewrites LLM Facts by Editing Conditional Memory
On October 7, 2026, researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hangzhou Diagens Biotechnology, and the University of Science and Technology of China posted EngramEdit (arXiv:2610.10533), a method that revises facts inside a large language model by editing only its conditional memory — the n-gram lookup tables of an Engram-style architecture — while leaving the […]
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DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Ships as a Desktop App for macOS and Windows
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.2 on September 29, 2026, and with it the first official desktop installers for macOS (Apple silicon) and Windows. Seven weeks ago Harness debuted as a developer-preview agent runtime that you launched from a terminal with npx. It now installs like an ordinary desktop app: sign in, pick a local folder […]
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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash: 552B Params, 890 Bytes of KV Cache Per Token
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on September 10, 2026, publishing the weights on Hugging Face under an MIT licence the same day the model went live in its apps. The headline is not the parameter count but the memory footprint: a 552-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts backbone that holds a one-million-token context in 890 bytes of KV cache per token […]
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DeepSeek Open-Sources V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Ten Days After API Launch
DeepSeek has published the weights for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, the first experimental multimodal model in its V4 family, releasing the checkpoint on Hugging Face under an MIT licence on August 31, 2026 — ten days after the same model went live on the DeepSeek API platform. The model card describes it as a system that “builds on […]
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DeepSeek Open-Sources Harness, an All-Plugin Agent Runtime
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 on August 13, 2026 — an open-source agent runtime, MIT-licensed and in developer preview, built on a single architectural bet: there is no privileged core. Models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, the agent loop itself, and even the UI are all plugins mounted into a shared context. The framework underneath, […]
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DeepSeek V4-Pro Leaves Preview as API Prices Rise
DeepSeek has taken V4-Pro out of preview. The model card for DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 went up on Hugging Face on August 13, 2026, closing a preview period that ran since the V4 family launched in late April. The weights stay under an MIT licence, the architecture is unchanged from the preview, and the headline addition is a […]
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DeepSeek Founder Details AGI-First, Compute-Bound Strategy in Investor Meeting
A lightly edited transcript of a nearly four-hour investor meeting with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, published by Tencent Tech in late July 2026, offers the clearest look yet at the reasoning behind China’s most closely watched AI lab. Across 118 numbered remarks, Liang lays out an AGI-first strategy, frames compute as the single variable separating […]
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DeepSeek Releases V4: Open-Source 1.6T MoE with 1M Context
DeepSeek has launched V4, its newest flagship open-source language model, exactly one year after the V3/R1 releases that rattled Silicon Valley. Announced on April 24, 2026, the V4 family ships in two Mixture-of-Experts variants — a 1.6-trillion-parameter V4-Pro and a leaner 284-billion-parameter V4-Flash — both supporting a 1-million-token context window and both released with open […]
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Anthropic Exposes Industrial-Scale Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax
Key points Anthropic has revealed that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax ran industrial-scale “distillation attacks” on its Claude models, generating over 16 million exchanges through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts. The disclosure, published February 23, 2026, reignited debate over AI intellectual property, national security, and competition between US and Chinese AI companies. By Anthropic’s account, DeepSeek […]