DeepSeek—a Chinese startup—stepped up with its V4 frontier model, also released April 24, but fully open-sourced with a generous license. DeepSeek V4 has a jaw-dropping 1.6 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts system, so it only powers up the bits it needs for each task, saving tons of computing resources. Its million-token context window means it can tackle entire codebases or hefty sets of technical documentation without breaking a sweat.
Their V4-Pro model quickly grabbed the lead in coding, math, and logic benchmarks—and didn’t hide behind a paywall. Anyone can download the weights and run DeepSeek V4 themselves. So the AI landscape just shifted—what used to be locked up by private companies is suddenly wide open for everyone.
Not everyone’s thrilled, though. The [suspicious link removed] sent diplomatic warnings that same morning, accusing DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms of ignoring copyright and using automated scraping to grab protected Western data. They’re charging these companies with organized intellectual property theft, and DeepSeek is front and center.
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