Yes that's my point. The old and the new version are different in capabilities, but now when someone talks about DeepSeek V4 Flash (in benchmarks, on inference providers), you don't know which exact version it's about.
Some providers like OpenRouter now call it `deepseek-v4-flash-0731`, but even in places like here on HackerNews people say things like "Sonnet is better than DeepSeek" without specifying a version or a reasoning effort, certainly no one will mention that `-0731` suffix when talking about DeepSeek V4 Flash.
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Yes that's my point. The old and the new version are different in capabilities, but now when someone talks about DeepSeek V4 Flash (in benchmarks, on inference providers), you don't know which exact version it's about.
Some providers like OpenRouter now call it `deepseek-v4-flash-0731`, but even in places like here on HackerNews people say things like "Sonnet is better than DeepSeek" without specifying a version or a reasoning effort, certainly no one will mention that `-0731` suffix when talking about DeepSeek V4 Flash.