The ongoing slugfest between tech players racing to get the most intuitive and powerful AI may have just gotten a brief knockout punch.
The slammer that landed?
A new version of DeepSeek’s increasingly impressive V3.1, which has a whopping 685-billion-parameter system and can deliver about $1.01 per complete coding task, compared to a beginning price of $70 for traditional systems.
🚨 BREAKING: DeepSeek V3.1 is Here! 🚨 The AI giant drops its latest upgrade — and it’s BIG:
⚡685B parameters
🧠Longer context window
📂Multiple tensor formats (BF16, F8_E4M3, F32)
💻Downloadable now on Hugging Face
📉Still awaiting API/inference launch The AI race just got… pic.twitter.com/nILcnUpKAf — Commentary DeepSeek News (@deepsseek) August 19, 2025
DeepSeek is no stranger to wowing the world. Its R1 model rolled out last year and immediately astonished AI watchers with its speed and accuracy compared to its Western competitors, and it looks like V3.1 may follow suit.
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