Ali Asif

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DeepSeek: what I’ve logged

DeepSeek comes up in 11 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to September 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and DeepSeek-V4 Preview, filed under open weights, agents and coding and science.

Items that mention DeepSeek

  1. DeepSeek 7 Sep 2026

    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

    A 552B mixture-of-experts model under MIT with native vision, 1M context and a new encoder-decoder design that uses 8B active parameters for input and 16B for output.

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  2. DeepSeek 17 Aug 2026

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

    An experimental image-capable version of V4 Flash that matches its text quality, billed at V4 Flash text rates with images costing up to 384 tokens each.

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  3. DeepSeek 20 Apr 2026

    DeepSeek-V4 Preview

    Open weights for V4-Pro (1.6T total, 49B active) and V4-Flash (284B total, 13B active), both with a 1M-token default context.

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  4. DeepSeek 26 Jan 2026

    DeepSeek-OCR 2

    A second version of DeepSeek's open document reader, which matters to anyone digitising paper-heavy workflows.

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  5. DeepSeek 12 Jan 2026

    Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup (Engram)

    DeepSeek adds a lookup-based memory as a second axis of sparsity next to mixture-of-experts.

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  6. DeepSeek 29 Dec 2025

    mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections

    DeepSeek proposes a way to widen residual connections in transformers while keeping training stable, a possible architecture lever for future models.

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  7. DeepSeek 1 Dec 2025

    DeepSeek-V3.2

    Open weights with sparse attention and tool use built into the reasoning; a higher-compute Speciale variant targets hard problems.

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  8. DeepSeek 24 Nov 2025

    DeepSeekMath-V2

    An open math model trained to verify its own proofs, aimed at theorem proving.

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  9. DeepSeek 20 Oct 2025

    DeepSeek-OCR

    Tests compressing a page of text into a small number of vision tokens, a possible route to cheaper long context.

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  10. DeepSeek 29 Sep 2025

    DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

    Introduces sparse attention to cut long-context cost, and DeepSeek halved its API prices alongside it.

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  11. DeepSeek 22 Sep 2025

    DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus

    A refinement of V3.1 that fixes mixed-language output and improves its code and search agents.

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Posts that cover DeepSeek

September 20261 entry

  1. Week of 7 Sep 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Devin's SWE-2 and a petabyte of DNA predictionsOpen weights · Agents and coding · Science · Image, video, world

August 20261 entry

  1. Week of 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on gamesOpen weights · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world

April 20261 entry

  1. Week of 20 Apr 2026GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4 preview and Kimi K2.6 in one weekFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

January 20262 entries

  1. Week of 26 Jan 2026Kimi K2.5, DeepMind's Project Genie, and the OpenClaw frenzyOpen weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 12 Jan 2026Anthropic's Cowork, DeepSeek's Engram and a new open image editorFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

December 20252 entries

  1. Week of 29 Dec 2025DeepSeek's mHC paper, Qwen-Image-2512 and a Tencent translation modelOpen weights · Image, video, world · Science
  2. Week of 1 Dec 2025DeepSeek V3.2, Mistral 3, and Anthropic buys BunOpen weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Policy and business

November 20251 entry

  1. Week of 24 Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5, FLUX.2, and a wave of strong open releasesFrontier · Image, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding

October 20251 entry

  1. Week of 20 Oct 2025Claude Code on the web, DeepSeek-OCR, Anthropic's TPU dealAgents and coding · Open weights · Policy and business

September 20252 entries

  1. Week of 29 Sep 2025Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and DeepSeek's sparse attentionFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 22 Sep 2025Qwen3-Omni and VL arrive, Gemini Robotics 1.5 learns to think firstOpen weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Science · Policy and business