# DeepSeek

- [DeepSeek V4: Near-Frontier Performance, Open Weights, and the First Major Model Built for Huawei Chips](https://sdd.sh/2026/04/deepseek-v4-near-frontier-performance-open-weights-and-the-first-major-model-built-for-huawei-chips.md): DeepSeek V4 arrived April 24 with two variants: a 1.6T-parameter Pro and a 284B-parameter Flash, both MIT-licensed and priced far below Western closed models. The bigger story is what it runs on: Huawei Ascend chips, not Nvidia.
- [DeepSeek V4 Ships: Frontier-Class Coding at 1/6th the Cost](https://sdd.sh/2026/04/deepseek-v4-ships-frontier-class-coding-at-1/6th-the-cost.md): DeepSeek V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 93.5% on LiveCodeBench — matching or exceeding most closed models — while costing 1/6th of Claude Opus 4.7 and releasing under the MIT license. Here's what actually matters, and what the benchmarks don't tell you.