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DeepSeek bolted vision onto its cheapest model and charged nothing extra — the multimodal price floor just moved
On 21 August 2026 DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, adding image understanding to V4-Flash at identical token rates, with images capped at 384 tokens each and a free Files API. It claims near-parity with Claude Opus 4.8 on several multimodal agent benchmarks. Every one of those numbers comes from DeepSeek's own unreleased harness, and the model carries an explicit experimental label — which makes this a cheap option to evaluate, not a frontier model to migrate to.
Read story →Meta launches Muse Spark — first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta debuted Muse Spark on April 8, 2026, the first proprietary model from the Superintelligence Labs unit Mark Zuckerberg built around the $14B Alexandr Wang hire. Natively multimodal reasoning with 'thought compression' for 10x compute efficiency over Llama 4 Maverick. Intelligence Index 52 — behind GPT-5.4/Gemini 3.1 Pro (57) and Claude Opus 4.6 (53), but powering Meta AI app, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Ray-Ban AI glasses.
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