Dossier
V4-Flash
Coverage of V4-Flash in the Nexus archive.
- DeepSeek releases cheaper new AI model as China's price war intensifies
DeepSeek released a discounted AI model, V4-Flash, with reduced token costs and paused dynamic pricing to compete in China’s intensifying tech price war. The model trails Moonshot’s Kimi K3, while Beijing warns against 'involution' but subsidizes industry compute and energy costs, potentially fueling the competition.
- DeepSeek's latest AI model is by far the cheapest of major models to run
DeepSeek's latest AI model, V4-Flash, is the cheapest to run among major models, costing 3 cents per test run compared to $3.15 for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.