DeepSeek V4 rattles the frontier: almost top-tier, a fraction of the price
Your daily AI news digest AI the News That's Fit to PromptVol. I · Friday, April 24, 2026 · Issue No. 34 · 12 Stories |
AI Economics DeepSeek V4: Almost on the Frontier, a Fraction of the PriceDeepSeek released V4 Pro and Flash preview models with massive context windows and aggressively priced tiers. Flash undercuts even OpenAI's budget tier at $0.14 per million input tokens while staying competitive on quality. The release is the clearest sign yet that the open-weights Chinese challenger is no longer a generation behind, and is rewriting the economics readers thought were locked in. |
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AI Models Introducing GPT-5.5 |
AI Research ParaRNN: Large-Scale Nonlinear RNNs, Trainable in Parallel |
AI Policy Anthropic Mythos, Washington, and the Cybersecurity Risk Debate |
Partnerships Anthropic and NEC: Japan's Largest AI Engineering Workforce |
AI Economics DeepSeek's V4 Release Rattles U.S. AI Incumbents |
Developer Tools TorchTPU: PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale |
Postmortem Anthropic's April 23 Postmortem on Claude Code Quality |
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Developer Tools A Pelican for GPT-5.5 via the Codex Backdoor API |
Web AI Building a Chrome Extension with Transformers.js |
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