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DeepSeek targets late April for V4 launch

DeepSeek's flagship V4 model is reportedly scheduled for a late April 2026 release, featuring a 1-trillion parameter MoE architecture and native multimodality. The company has spent months pivoting its stack to run efficiently on domestic Huawei hardware to bypass US export curbs.

// ANALYSIS

DeepSeek isn't gone—it's just gone "domestic," and the V4 specs suggest it's aiming for the global #1 spot.

  • 1-million-token context window with "Engram" conditional memory architecture targets 97% retrieval accuracy.
  • Successful "de-CUDA" strategy proves Chinese AI can survive and thrive on Huawei Ascend silicon.
  • API pricing projected at $0.14/1M tokens would fundamentally break the economics for Western model providers.
  • Open-weights (Apache 2.0) release ensures it will dominate the local LLM scene upon arrival.
  • Shift to native multimodality (image/video/audio) brings them on par with the current SOTA frontier.
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2026-04-11

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2026-04-10

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Mr_Moonsilver