AI Development

DeepSeek releases V4 Flash and V4 Pro preview models

April 24, 2026 · High importance · model

Business Standard and Economic Times reported that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled preview versions of its new flagship model series V4 Flash and V4 Pro. The models claim top-tier performance in coding benchmarks and major advances in reasoning and agentic tasks, positioning it as a strong open-source challenger to models from OpenAI and Anthropic. This release marks a significant capability upgrade from the company exactly one year after its previous breakthrough model.

Date
April 24, 2026
Importance
High 4/5
Category
model
Axis of Change
Capability Gain
Organizations
DeepSeek
Models Affected
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek V4 Pro
  1. 01 business-standard.com
  2. 02 economictimes.indiatimes.com