DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek · April 2026

activeOpen Weightmixture of expertstextAPI Available
Parameters1.6T
Context Window1M tokens

Description

DeepSeek's largest model with 1.6 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window (roughly 750,000 words — enough to process several novels at once). Combines the architectural innovations from V3 with the reasoning capabilities of R1, representing the frontier of open-weight AI.

Notable Milestones

  • Frontier-class open model for code generation
  • Million-token context for entire codebase analysis

Key Innovations

Reasoning
ReasoningStructured step-by-step problem solving, often using chain-of-thought or tree-of-thought approaches.
MoE
MoEArchitecture where only a fraction of the model's parameters are active for each input, allowing massive scale with lower compute.
Open Weight
Open WeightModel weights are publicly released but training data/code may not be. Enables fine-tuning but not full reproduction.
Long Context
Long ContextAbility to process very long inputs (100K+ tokens), enabling analysis of entire codebases or books.

Family Tree

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DeepSeek V1DeepSeek V2DeepSeek V3DeepSeek V4 Pro