DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic
DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company’s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. It can then act on what it sees. The Hangzhou company also shipped version 0.1.1 of its agent harness, with support built in.
“This experimental multimodal model matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities, including agents, reasoning, and world knowledge,” DeepSeek wrote on X. On multimodal agent benchmarks it “makes a major leap over V4-Flash, bringing multimodal agent performance close to Opus-4.8”.
Which Opus, and why it matters less than it looks
Opus-4.8 arrived in May. Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5 on 24 July, and TNW reported then that Opus 5 matched Fableon coding for...
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