Summary
DeepSeek’s official API documentation says the experimental model matches V4 Flash on text capabilities, including agents, reasoning and world knowledge, while adding mixed text-and-image input. The company reports multimodal agent performance close to Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and makes the model available through Chat Completions, Messages and Responses.
Why it matters
A low-cost vision-capable model in the same API lane could broaden multimodal agent deployment, although the benchmark claims remain vendor-reported and the model is experimental.
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