{"id":19546,"date":"2026-04-25T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/underwhelming-or-underrated-deepseek-v4-shows-impressive-gains\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:26:43","slug":"underwhelming-or-underrated-deepseek-v4-shows-impressive-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/underwhelming-or-underrated-deepseek-v4-shows-impressive-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwhelming or underrated? DeepSeek V4 shows \u201cimpressive\u201d gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/25\/b76d0a6a-367c-48ce-9ca3-7df9671e54c8_20b1deb1.jpg?itok=RspqYUwO&amp;v=1777107059\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">DeepSeek&rsquo;s long-awaited flagship V4 model has fallen short of its domestic and US rivals, according to a new analysis, as the Chinese artificial intelligence firm struggles to replicate the market-shaking success of its earlier R1 release.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company&rsquo;s most advanced system, V4 Pro, ranked second among the world&rsquo;s leading open-source models, behind Beijing-based Moonshot AI&rsquo;s Kimi K2.6, benchmark firm Artificial Analysis said in a report on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While V4 Pro marked a clear improvement on its predecessor, V3.2, it still lagged top competitors.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"14.599326599327\">V4 Pro scored 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, compared with 54 for Kimi K2.6, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">released earlier this week<\/span>. By contrast, leading closed-source models from the US &ndash; OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-5.5, Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Opus and Google&rsquo;s Gemini 3.1 Pro &ndash; scored 60, 57 and 57, respectively.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The results highlight the challenges facing DeepSeek as China races to narrow the AI gap with the US, amid intensifying competition at home and abroad as well as ongoing constraints on computing power.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Still, analysts noted that V4 delivered meaningful technical progress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Underwhelming or underrated? DeepSeek V4 shows &ldquo;impressive&rdquo; gains<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek&rsquo;s long-awaited flagship V4 model has fallen short of its domestic and US rivals, according to a new analysis, as the Chinese artificial intelligence firm struggles to replicate the market-shaking success of its earlier R1 release. The company&rsquo;s most advanced system, V4 Pro, ranked second among the world&rsquo;s leading open-source models, behind Beijing-based Moonshot AI&rsquo;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/underwhelming-or-underrated-deepseek-v4-shows-impressive-gains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Underwhelming or underrated? DeepSeek V4 shows \u201cimpressive\u201d gains&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}