DeepSeek Ships V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Nearing Opus 4.8 on Multimodal Agents

DeepSeek11d ago

DeepSeek Ships V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: Multimodal Agents Near Claude Opus 4.8

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the API: it matches V4-Flash on text—including agents, reasoning, and world knowledge—while jumping on multimodal agent benchmarks to near Claude Opus 4.8. A free Files API and DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1 ship with it; images bill at V4-Flash rates (up to 384 tokens each) and drop into existing agent frameworks.

Claude12h ago

Anthropic Unveils Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 for Coding and Knowledge Work

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, calling them the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Fable 5.1 more than doubled Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 to 52.6% and lifted Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 42.0% to 55.8%, while cutting cache-read prices 75% and typical agentic costs by up to 45%.

Z.ai6d ago

GLM-5.3-Flash Drops Open-Weight: 320B-A18B Multimodal Coder Matches Opus 4.8

Z.ai launched GLM-5.3-Flash, a natively multimodal 320B-A18B MIT-licensed model with a 1M-token context, previously previewed as the stealth Ox Alpha. On Z.ai's Code Bench it matches Claude Opus 4.8 at $0.15/$0.50 per million input/output tokens, and it runs entirely on Chinese AI chips.

DeepSeek Ships V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Nearing Opus 4.8 on Multimodal Agents

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