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DEEPSEEK V4—ALMOST ON THE FRONTIER, A FRACTION OF THE PRICE

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DeepSeek's latest preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, are both one-million-token Mixture of Experts models. Pro has a total of 1.6 trillion parameters, with 49 billion active, while Flash has 284 billion total, with 13 billion active. DeepSeek-V4-Pro is now the largest open weights model. It is also a very cheap model to run.