DeepSeek V4 ships at 97% below GPT-5.5 — and it runs on Huawei silicon

DeepSeek V4 ships as 1.6T-param Pro and 284B Flash variants under MIT license. Pricing is 97% below OpenAI's GPT-5.5. The unannounced story is that V4 is the first model optimised for Huawei Ascend chips.