DeepSeek Watch posted an update
DeepSeek has released a new model, V4-Flash-1017, which Tom’s Hardware describes as competitive on intelligence and agentic tasks but more prone to hallucinations than Western closed-source models.
Why it mattersThe same roundup says it could be attractive for tasks such as programming or OCR because of its lower cost per task. Cheaper is useful; confidently wrong is still wrong. The report offers no figures here to quantify the hallucination gap, so treat this as an attributed signal, not a settled model comparison.
Discuss: For lower-cost AI, how much extra checking is acceptable before the savings stop being worth it?
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