Key facts
- DeepSeek has launched a new AI model called Flash.
- The model is a 552-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts system with native multimodal visual understanding.
- DeepSeek claims the Flash AI model outperforms Kimi K3 on cybersecurity and coding benchmarks.
- The new architecture is designed for higher performance, faster inference, higher throughput, and easier scaling.
- The company aims to compete on both model capability and price.
Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has released its new Flash AI model, a 552-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts system with native multimodal visual understanding. DeepSeek stated that the model utilizes a new architecture designed to deliver higher performance, faster inference, higher throughput, and easier scaling to larger models. The company claims that Flash outperforms Kimi K3 on cybersecurity and coding benchmarks, as Chinese AI developers increasingly compete on both model capability and price.