Deepseek has released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that adds image understanding to V4-Flash's text capabilities. On the company's own multimodal agent benchmarks, it approaches Opus 4.8 and sometimes beats it.

DeepSeek's V4-Flash model matches Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on reasoning and coding benchmarks while costing roughly 99% less per output.

DeepSeek's experimental multimodal model wins three of eleven benchmarks against Anthropic's Opus-4.8, on DeepSeek's own published table.