DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-21/deepseek-unveils-test-model-to-rival-anthropic-s-opus-4-8"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260821/i9.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260821/p9#a260821p9" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-21/deepseek-unveils-test-model-to-rival-anthropic-s-opus-4-8">DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; DeepSeek unveiled an experimental AI model that can understand visual prompts, saying the tool nears the performance of an advanced model by US rival Anthropic PBC.</p>