DeepSeek V4 Launching Next Week with Image and Video Generation

DeepSeek V4 Imminent Release

According to an exclusive Financial Times report, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to release V4 next week, marking another significant leap in the company's rapidly advancing capabilities.

Multimodal Capabilities: Image and Video Generation

The most notable new feature is integrated image and video generation. This represents DeepSeek's transition from a text-focused LLM to a full multimodal AI platform, placing it in direct competition with GPT-4o and Gemini's multimodal capabilities.

New Challenge to US Rivals

DeepSeek already disrupted the AI industry with V3 and R1 last year, demonstrating that frontier-level performance could be achieved at a fraction of the cost. V4's launch continues this trajectory, particularly remarkable given ongoing US restrictions on advanced semiconductor exports to China.

Open-Source Policy

Whether DeepSeek will maintain its open-source approach with V4 is a key question for the developer community. Previous releases under open licenses had significant downstream impact on the global LLM ecosystem, accelerating local deployment and fine-tuning efforts worldwide.