DeepSeek is reportedly planning to drop its V4 model around mid-February, and if internal tests are any indication, Silicon Valley’s AI giants should be nervous. The Hangzhou-based AI startup could be targeting a release around February 17—Lunar New Year, naturally—with a model specifically engineered for coding tasks, according to The Information. People with direct knowledge of the project claim V4 outperforms both Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT series in internal benchmarks, particularly when handling extremely long code prompts. Of course, no benchmark or information about the model has been publicly shared, so it is impossible to directly verify such claims. DeepSeek hasn’t confirmed the rumors either. Still, the developer community isn’t waiting for official word. Reddit’s r/DeepSeek and r/LocalLLaMA are already heating up, users are stockpiling API credits, and enthusiasts on X have been quick to share their predictions that V4 could cement DeepSeek’s position as the scrappy underdog that refuses to play by Silicon Valley’s billion-dollar rules.

Full report : DeepSeek’s upcoming V4 model could outperform Claude and ChatGPT in coding tasks, according to insiders—with its purported release nearing.