DeepSeek unveils AI model that approaches Anthropic's performance at a fraction of the cost

Read DeepSeek's claim, then read DeepSeek's table

DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp claiming agent parity with Opus-4.8; it wins 3 of 11 benchmarks, loses 12 on NL2Repo. At $0.87 per million tokens versus Anthropic's $50, price is decisive, but performance gaps on repository-scale work remain critical for enterprise agents.