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DeepSeek V4 Flash matches Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.5 on DeepSWE benchmark

DeepSeek AI has released its V4 Flash model, which reportedly achieves performance parity with Anthropic's Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.5 on the DeepSWE benchmark. The benchmark, which focuses on software engineering tasks, shows DeepSeek V4 Flash performing comparably to these established models. However, the claims are attributed to DeepSeek AI and have not yet been independently verified by DeepSWE. AI

IMPACT This release indicates continued progress in open-source model capabilities, potentially offering a competitive alternative for software engineering tasks.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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DeepSeek V4 Flash matches Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.5 on DeepSWE benchmark

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/sdexca ·

    DeepSeek V4 Flash GA ranks the same as Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.5 on DeepSWE

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