AI Daily — August 2, 2026

Tools & Open Source

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Puts Pro-Class Reasoning in a 13B Active Model — DeepSeek has published open weights for V4-Flash under an MIT license. The model is a mixture-of-experts design with 284B total parameters and 13B active, supporting a 1M token context. DeepSeek says the architecture pairs Compressed Sparse Attention with Heavily Compressed Attention, and reports that at 1M tokens V4-Pro needs only 27 percent of the per-token inference FLOPs and 10 percent of the KV cache of V3.2. The attention design is named differently on DeepSeek's own announcement page. Three reasoning modes are exposed, from non-think through Think Max. DeepSeek reports that Flash-Max approaches Pro on reasoning with a larger thinking budget but falls behind on knowledge and complex agentic tasks. Benchmark figures are self-reported. HuggingFace ↗

My takeaway: DeepSeek-V4-Flash has been released. Based on Artificial Analysis benchmarks, this open weight model matches Gemini 3.6 Flash. More importantly, its cost per task ranks 1st(standard) and 3rd (Pro). It is MIT licensed, so on-prem deployment for commercial use is an option. In my opinion, this makes V4-Flash worth evaluating for agentic pipelines where quality and cost both matter.

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