DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (Bloomberg)

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model that can process visual prompts. The company asserts that the model’s performance on multimodal agentic benchmarks approaches that of Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, indicating a comparable level of capability in visual-language tasks.