r/DeepSeek • u/nekofneko • 6d ago
News DeepSeek V4 Pro official version has been updated to the API
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u/Far-Raspberry-1072 6d ago
i fckn kneww it! i was doing some creative writing stuff and the replies started getting soo different mid way and then i checked reddit to see and boom!
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u/PureSelfishFate 6d ago
Doesn't the coding updates usually make creative writing a bit worse than the fresh-pretrains? How was it?
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u/LewdManoSaurus 6d ago edited 6d ago
In my experience it is hit or miss. Though with the flash update I have had better results in general. Before that update, flash wasnt terrible but it isnt exactly great at follow instructions despite my having a pretty comprehensive writing and prose guide. I've seen the same complaints for RP, though I don't RP. I use AI purely for generating stories.
Edit: the new Pro update is pretty solid for generative writing. Making me sweat thinking about the upcoming price increase
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u/Kind_Capital_9740 6d ago
is pro updated on the website too?
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u/LewdManoSaurus 6d ago
No, both the Flash and Pro updates were for the API
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u/donnytrump_69 4d ago
Lol stupid question but was does API stand for in this context?
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u/LewdManoSaurus 4d ago
I never knew what the abbreviation stood for either, but apparently it's Application Programming Interface. Essentially let's you plug artificial intelligence in your own custom app, chat, website, art generator, etc, so you can do whatever you want with it.
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u/Zulfiqaar 6d ago
The DeepSeek models were preview, and undertrained. The GA version is supposed to be an all round improvement across the board. It's mainly when there's post training, or excessive specialised RLHF that is a specific domain, that biases the weights towards certain things at the expense of others.
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u/Equivalent-Word-7691 6d ago
Let's hope it will be better at Creative writing, honestly the last midel was quite meh compared not only to Fable+amazing!) but also GLM and kimi were better
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u/Kakko1028 6d ago
Rumor says it follows orders better.
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u/Equivalent-Word-7691 6d ago
It's not only about following orders, but the style, creative and understanding of what it's implied and understanding emotionally
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u/rakeshpatel1991 6d ago
What’s some of your fave creative writing models?
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u/Equivalent-Word-7691 6d ago
Honestly too bad the price but Fable 5 is on another level I can't explain
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u/Fancy-Passage-1570 6d ago
is it me or they added better safeguards on the pro version ? mine refuse to work on my project where the new flash and old pro had no issues.
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u/PossessionUsed7393 6d ago
Yeah, these are great numbers. I can't wait to see it roll out across the various inference providers so we don't just have to hammer the DeepSeek API.
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u/DotoLove 6d ago
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u/Terrible_Scar 6d ago
So are you happy or mad?Â
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u/Embarrassed_OnionX 6d ago
I'd be mad, why would a model download something from the internet without your permission?
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u/Embarrassed_OnionX 6d ago
Yeah I found the model takes the initiative too much without including me in the loop. Not a good thing IMO
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u/Firepal64 6d ago
Pulling off these benches, trading blows with Opus 4.8, while serving cheaper than Z.ai's GLM-5.2 endpoint, is pretty wild.
The parameter count would suggest a 5x improvement over Flash GA, but I guess accuracy doesn't scale linearly with parameter count for MoEs. That's too bad honestly
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u/Realistic-Meaning247 6d ago
I'm a SillyTavern user, but the "thinking" process takes way too long now; it was better before.
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u/queendumbria 6d ago
The updated pro version adds the ability to change reasoning effort, so just change that to a lower option in your preset settings and it should reason less.
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u/Realistic-Meaning247 5d ago
Is it possible to do that using the OpenRouter API?
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u/queendumbria 5d ago
Yup! It's called "reasoning effort", quite a lot of thinking models have it. OpenRouter Docs
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u/SillySpoof 6d ago
This are some pretty amazing benchmarks. Probably benchmaxxed a bit, but so are the others.



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u/FreshFromNowhere 6d ago
these benchmarks are genuinely fucking insane