DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official Version Released and Open-Sourced: 304B Lightweight Model Surpasses V4-Pro Preview and Matches Claude Opus-4.8, Hailed as Third DeepSeek Moment

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 official release outperforms V4-Pro preview with 82.7 performance score at 0.14/0.28 USD pricing, tops VulcanBench, and reaches HuggingFace trending second.