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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released its V4-Flash model at a price point that dramatically undercuts every major competitor, according to benchmark. The emergence of V4-Flash accelerates a structural shift in the AI market.
DeepSeek has officially released the stable version of its V4-Flash model, designated DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, and simultaneously opened a public API beta. The convergence of a frontier-class open model with a national-scale compute.
DeepSeek open-sourced its experimental V4-Flash-Vision-Exp multimodal model on Hugging Face under MIT license on August 31, 2026. The release gives developers local access to the 305B-parameter vision-language model that previously ran only on DeepSeek's API platform.
After an August 6 warning of a “significant” API increase without numbers, DeepSeek published concrete V4-Flash and V4-Pro peak/off-peak rates effective 16:00 UTC on 16 August 2026 — peak output roughly four times the old flat list.
DeepSeek V4 Flash is positioned as a fast, lower-cost open-weight AI model for developers who need long-context reasoning without paying frontier-model. The model is described as a Mixture-of-Experts system with 284 billion total.
September 2026 watch through 14 Sep: Daybreak keys passed, DeepSeek V4.1-Flash live with Pro remap, Astra and Agents API surfaces landed — Gemini 4 and Apple China launch timing still open.
DeepSeek’s official page confirms V4.1-Flash is live as deepseek-flash with a 552B MoE encoder–decoder stack. Pro requests remap to Flash rates from 04:00 UTC on September 14 until V4.1-Pro.
AMD launched its Helios rack-scale AI system at Advancing AI 2026, combining 72 MI455X GPUs with 18 EPYC Venice CPUs to challenge Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. The system will begin shipping to customers including Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI later in 2026.