From CNET: DeepSeek, the China-based AI company, has released two new reasoning-capable AI models, V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, with the latter outperforming Gemini 3.0 Pro and GPT-5 High in benchmarks, the company said in news release on Monday. At the moment, V3.2 is available on the app and web, whereas V3.2-Speciale can only be accessed via the API.
DeepSeek V3.2 is a follow-up to V3.2-Exp, which stands for experimental and was released in September. The Hangzhou-based AI company says V3.2 surpasses the performance of OpenAI's GPT-5 in reasoning benchmarks and has reasoning performance "on par" with Gemini 3.0 Pro. DeepSeek didn't release testing against GPT-5 Pro. That could be because ChatGPT is blocked in China. What's more, DeepSeek said it's committed to staying open source, meaning any company can load DeepSeek's models for free. But considering V3.2 has 685 billion parameters, it can only run on a giant server stack with millions of dollars in hardware.
DeepSeek didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
DeepSeek's release of 3.2 comes as the company continues to put American AI companies on notice. The company first gained worldwide attention earlier this year when it released a reasoning-capable model online, for free.
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