Archive · 3 Aug 2026
DeepSeek Unveils V4 Flash, Ultra‑Cheap Code AI
DeepSeek, a company from China, made a new computer program called V4 Flash that can write code.
It is special because it is free to use and can be changed by anyone.
The program has a lot of tiny parts, but only a small part is used at a time, which helps it work fast.
It can remember a huge amount of text, up to one million words.
The best part is that it costs only about 28 cents to get a piece of code, which is almost 99% cheaper than a similar program from another company.
This makes it a very good choice for people who need to write code without spending a lot of money.
DeepSeek released V4 Flash, a new code‑generation AI model.
V4 Flash is open‑weight and MIT‑licensed, allowing free commercial use.
The model uses a mixture‑of‑experts architecture with 284 billion total parameters, 13 billion active.
It supports a one‑million‑token context window for efficient reasoning.
Usage costs about 28 cents per coding output, roughly 99% cheaper than Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8.
- Who
- DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup
- What
- launched V4 Flash, an open‑weight code‑generation AI model
- Where
- China
- Why
- to offer a highly affordable, open‑source alternative to expensive commercial models
- Model name
- V4 Flash
- Model type
- Code‑generation AI
- Total parameters
- 284 billion
- Active parameters
- 13 billion
- Context window
- 1 million tokens
- License
- MIT
- Hosting platform
- Hugging Face
- Architecture
- Mixture‑of‑Experts
- Cost per output
- $0.28 (vs. $25 for Claude Opus 4.8)