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Issue 2026-08-25 · Plus In-Depth Weekly Report
DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp launched (August 21) — DeepSeek's first multimodal visual understanding model; its multimodal Agent capability is close to Opus 4.8, with free Files API opened at the same time; DeepSeek API peak-valley billing adjusted again — starting from August 23, weekends will be uniformly billed at the low-valley rate all day; Volcano Arkdeepseek-v4-pro pricing adjusted to August 28 — aligned with DeepSeek's official peak-valley pricing step 2.
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