That may as well be the motto for the AI arms race, which is unfolding across multiple dimensions in 2026. There’s the competition between Silicon Valley AI labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind, the race for chips and compute power, and, of course, the fierce competition between the U.S. and China.
In the latest salvo in the East vs. West battle for AI supremacy, Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has released a preview of its latest model, DeepSeek V4.
Here’s what we know about the new model, and how it stacks up against other new models like OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7.
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