This is a serious threat to American and European frontier AI labs. DeepSeek's newest model, V4 Flash, performs close to the level of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, one of the industry's most capable systems, on tests of complex coding and autonomous software tasks, at a 99% discount to Claude.
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