China’s DeepSeek releases new AI model and claims it beats all open-source competitors
China’s DeepSeek releases new AI model and claims it beats all open-source competitors
Vishwam SankaranFri, April 24, 2026 at 4:38 AM UTC
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Deepseek AI logo on a laptop screen (AFP via Getty Images)
China’s DeepSeek has released its long-awaited new artificial intelligence model V4, saying it offers world-beating capabilities and that a preview version is now available to use.
The version DeepSeek-V4 is reportedly better optimised for China’s domestic chips.
It "features an ultra-long context of one million words, achieving leadership in both domestic and open-source fields across agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning performance", the company said in a statement.
The new model is available in two versions, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, according to the company, which says the latter is a "more efficient and economical choice".
"In world knowledge benchmarks, DeepSeek-V4-Pro significantly leads other open-source models and is only slightly outperformed by the top-tier closed-source model, (Google's) Gemini-Pro-3.1," the Hangzhou-based AI company said.
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DeepSeek-V4-Pro comes with a “maximum reasoning effort mode”, which the AI startup claims “significantly advances the knowledge capabilities of open-source models, firmly establishing itself as the best open-source model available today”.
Deepseek AI logo on a laptop screen (AFP via Getty Images)
The latest update comes after the company sparked a trillion-dollar stock market selloff last year following the release of its R1 model, which rivalled the performance of AI systems like ChatGPT while built for only a fraction of the cost.
DeepSeek did not unveil what chip system it used to train the V4 models, but said its software components are designed to work with both Nvidia and Huawei chips.
The release comes amid growing semiconductor export restrictions from the US to China, especially high-end graphical processing units (GPUs), which are key for building AI models, forcing China to rely on its own homegrown GPU manufacturers.
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Source: “AOL Breaking”
