🐋 DeepSeek V4 admits it's 3-6 months behind. The architecture says otherwise.
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China's DeepSeek shipped V4 with a 50-page paper that openly admits V4 trails GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on intelligence tests, then explains the race V4 actually won: long-context AI work at roughly one-seventh the cost of frontier models.