DeepSeek Unveils Vision Model to Challenge Anthropic, Pitching Low Cost Against Top Performance

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday, claiming its agent capabilities rival those of Anthropic’s supported Opus-4.8 system. The release marks the latest salvo from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firms seeking to close the gap with foreign rivals while offering drastically lower API pricing. The newly deployed model, named DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, builds upon the…