DeepSeek’s smaller model just outperformed its own flagship
DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, delivering a significant boost in agent performance without changing the model’s core architecture. Following an announcement The post DeepSeek’s smaller model just outperformed its own flagship appeared first on The New Stack .
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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: The New Stack AI
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 4 August 2026
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