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DeepSeek v3.2 closes gap with US frontier models

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What happened: On December 1, DeepSeek dropped a new model V3.2, pushing closer to US frontier models like OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini-3.
Per DeepSeek’s technical paper:

“DeepSeek-V3.2 performs comparably to GPT-5. Notably, our high-compute variant, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, surpasses GPT-5 an...