Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for DeepSeek for the week ending August 7, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A fine-art nocturne landscape in American Tonalism style, a small dark silhouette of a whale's tail quietly slipping beneath the glassy surface of a remote tidal inlet, its form half-mirrored in water that perfectly reflects a wide field of stars above, muted marsh greens and slate grays along a low horizon with a single faint warm glow at the far edge, painterly realism, long-exposure calm, deep indigo and silver-white palette, generous negative space in the upper sky for a bold title.
This Week in DeepSeek News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Cheap, strong coding model: Vals AI said DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is the cheapest model on its Index to score above 60, and 35x cheaper than the next best, with the savings coming mostly from coding. Epoch AI ranked it the second strongest open-weights model, behind only Kimi K3.
- Fast spread across hosts: Together AI, Baseten and Ollama all began offering it. Ollama called it its fastest growing model ever in token usage, and Unsloth said a new DSpark setup makes local GGUF runs roughly 1.4 to 2x faster.
- Price increase on the horizon: TechNode reported that DeepSeek plans significant API price increases, and a separate blog argued the rise goes beyond GPU costs. That lands right after commenters were marveling at how cheap Flash had made frontier-style agent work.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to DeepSeek
We’ve been asked why Cline works better with open weights models like DeepSeek than other harnesses and want to share some detail (more in our blog below). Our internal evals show that many open weights models like DeepSeek, GLM, and Kimi are RL trained to spend more tokens”
https://x.com/cline/status/2084359007029141528
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is the cheapest model on the Vals Index to score above 60, and 35x cheaper than the next best model. That efficiency comes almost entirely from coding. Three of its four strongest Index results are coding and agentic tasks, and the cost gap on those is”
https://x.com/ValsAI/status/2084451706650443916
Baseten is now an official inference provider on @huggingface 🤗 Run Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and GLM-5.2 on Baseten straight from any model page, or with just your HF token in your favorite harness. Get started here:
https://x.com/baseten/status/2085380532263669903
DeepSeek V4 Flash is now live on Together AI. Frontier agent performance is getting dramatically cheaper. DSV4 on Together AI brings a major jump in coding, tool use, and long-running agent performance.”
https://x.com/togethercompute/status/2084438456890019970
GLM-5.3 appears to be coming very soon. It’s time for OpenAI, and especially Anthropic, to step up their game and solidify their lead. China has recently made incredible strides with Kimi k3, Qwen 3.8, DeepSeek 4 Flash (fantastic!), and Minimax h3. The gap is shrinking. The US”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2084240554225770535
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 debuts with an ECI of 153, comparable to GLM 5.2 and roughly midway between Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6. It’s the second strongest open-weights model available today, behind only Kimi K3.”
https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2084788991153586600
Announcing the Artificial Analysis Endpoint Accuracy Index, measuring how much of an open weights model’s accuracy each serverless API endpoint preserves. We are initiating coverage with GLM-5.2, gpt-oss-120b and DeepSeek V4 Pro, with Kimi K3 coming soon Providers trade off”
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2084702191466725669
Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 (high) and (max) score 57.1% and 63.0% on WeirdML, setting the new cost/accracy SOTA ahead of GPT 5.6 Luna (even after the recent cost reduction). The model is probably significantly stronger than this result indicates, since it often use the submissions”
https://x.com/htihle/status/2084246773413957957
DeepSeek’s Price Increase Goes Beyond GPU Costs | Chuanxilu for Skilled Homo sapiens
https://blog.chuanxilu.net/en/posts/2026/08/deepseek-price-increase-beyond-gpu/
DeepSeek Plans Significant API Price Increases · TechNode
https://technode.com/2026/08/06/deepseek-plans-significant-api-price-increases/
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · Hugging Face
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
DeepSeek-V4-Flash can now run 2× faster locally with DSpark! ⚡️ DSpark enables V4-Flash-0731 GGUFs to generate ~1.4-2× faster with no accuracy change. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 can reach at 120 tokens/s. GGUFs:
https://t.co/ac6uOI8mZA Guide:
https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2085368138393329703
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is Ollama’s fastest growing model ever in token usage. We are scaling capacity in US & Europe. On Ollama, this model runs with high performance (100tps+) and zero data retention. Your data stays yours. ollama run deepseek-v4-flash:0731-cloud”
https://x.com/ollama/status/2084771801888907621
api-docs.deepseek.com
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/
At first I thought Bloomberg forgot to add DeepSeek’s pricing to the chart.”
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2084509003384827970
despite record breaking numbers yesterdays total deepseek flash token worth is $120,000 on OpenCode inference ~ $20,000 (estimate) on OpenRouter this is nothing and it’s TOTAL traffic from everyone worldwide puts into perspective how cheap this thing is”
https://x.com/thdxr/status/2085375014392541315
This graph shows the absurd dominance in pricing of deepseek 4 flash. Its not even close. Not even a tiny bit.”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2084623032014848505
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