AI Arms Race Accelerates With New Models from OpenAI, DeepSeek and Anthropic

It’s a busy week in the world of AI models, as some of the top artificial intelligence companies roll out their latest updates. Just a week after Anthropic introduced version 4.7 of its Claude Opus AI model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.5, and China’s DeepSeek introduced a preview release of its V4 AI model.

The companies, which have all been jockeying for greater adoption and consumer and business use by extending and improving their AI model offerings, are trying to bring something new to the table as the tech industry continues to invest billions into these technologies.

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The newest offerings, DeepSeek’s V4 Flash and V4 Pro AI models, are focused on reasoning and agentic AI tasks, with the Chinese company’s latest work using a Hybrid Attention Architecture. DeepSeek said this allows its models to keep query histories in mind even over a lengthy series of prompts. V4 also allows longer

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