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“DeepSeek's V4-Pro-0813, quietly made the official flagship on August 12, delivers 'significantly enhanced agent capabilities', with its chart showing DeepSWE up 49.9 points and Terminal Bench 2.1 at 87.9.”

DeepSeek (website statement + comparison chart), 12 August 2026

Recorded 15 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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Receipts pack

The evidence file for this verdict

7 receipts: 1 support the claim, 2 contradict it, 4 add context. 3 figures on the record, 2 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Supports the claimglobaltimes.cn ↗

    Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek officially unveiled the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro on Thursday, featuring significantly enhanced agent capabilities

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  2. 2Contextdsv4pro.novcog.us.com ↗

    Terminal Bench 2.1 72.1 87.9 +15.8 CyberGym 52.7 83.3 +30.6 DeepSWE 12.8 62.7 +49.9

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  3. 3Contextdsv4pro.novcog.us.com ↗

    As of 12 August 2026, there is not one third-party benchmark result for DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 that this site could find. Every number on this page is vendor-reported or analyst-reported; none is independently reproduced.

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  4. 4Contradicts the claimofficechai.com ↗

    On Terminal-Bench v2.1, which tests agentic terminal workflows, DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 79%, a full ten points behind Claude Opus 5's 89%.

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  5. 5Contradicts the claimofficechai.com ↗

    Model scores one point higher than Flash on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

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  6. 6Contextartificialanalysis.ai ↗

    53 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

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  7. 7Contextscmp.com ↗

    leaving some developers underwhelmed by its overall capabilities and disappointed in its pricing

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