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Comment by ilaksh

9 hours ago

Ok but this is a new model with significant architectural differences and new training run.

Huh? This is a new checkpoint. It has identical architecture, only different weights, and most likely just more post-training.

Much like Qwen 3.8 Next; which is qwen4-exp in a lot of the code/patches, there's usually a tick-tock cycle with LLMs. That said, it's hard to know for closed frontier models.

  • It's not identical, it has vision built in and asymmetric active from encode to decode.

    DeepSeek delivery deliberately uses confusing version numbers.