DeepSeek V4 in 2026: The Open-Source LLM That Changes Creator Economics
A grounded look at DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash - the MIT-licensed 1.6T parameter MoE model from China, how it benchmarks against GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro, and what creators can actually do with the cheapest frontier-tier API on the market.