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Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks

DeepSeek has released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model adding image understanding to V4-Flash. On the company's multimodal agent benchmarks it approaches Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and sometimes beats it.

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Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks: DeepSeek has released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model adding image understanding to V4-Flash. On the company's multimodal agent benchmarks it approaches Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and sometimes beats it.