On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently.

Marina Zhang, an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, said DeepSeek’s V4 rollout is as a “pivotal milestone for China’s AI industry,” especially as global competition intensifies in the pursuit of self-reliance in critical technologies.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has previewed its V4 model, optimized for Huawei’s Ascend chips, marking a strategic shift away from Nvidia amid U.S. export controls. The open-source model comes in Pro and Flash versions, offering competitive performance at a ...

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek launches V4 Pro and Flash models with open-source architecture and 1 million token context windows. At $1.74 per million tokens, V4 Pro costs half of comparable closed-source alternatives like GPT-4.

When China’s DeepSeek released a competitive new artificial intelligence model called R1 last January purportedly built for less than many rivals, some feared the achievement posed a threat to America’s lead in artificial intelligence.