tech
April 24, 2026
Chinese Company DeepSeek Presented its Most Economical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model
Chinese startup DeepSeek presented its new artificial intelligence (AI) model this Friday, April 24, more than a year after it surprised the world with a low-cost chatbot that matched the capabilities of its American rivals. AFP The global technology industry had been awaiting this announcement for several weeks, a barometer of Chinese ambitions in the sector.
TL;DR
- DeepSeek unveiled its new AI model, DeepSeek-V4, on April 24.
- DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-extensive context window of one million words.
- The model is available in two versions: DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash.
- V4-Pro significantly outperforms other open-source models in knowledge tests, trailing only slightly behind Google's Gemini-Pro-3.1.
- This release comes amid intense competition, with OpenAI also recently presenting its new model, GPT-5.5.