BroadChain learned that on April 24 at 19:02, DeepSeek V4 was officially released and open-sourced, offering two versions: Pro and Flash. The model weights are available for download on Hugging Face. This news sparked widespread discussion on Zhihu, Hacker News, and Reddit, with popularity reaching 53.9 million, 999 upvotes, and over 600 upvotes, respectively.
The community's focus is centered on pricing, parameter count, and comparisons with Claude Sonnet 4.5. Claude's parameter count was revealed to be 25T, raising questions about whether domestic models are still stuck at the 1T level. A related topic on Zhihu reached 2.85 million in popularity, with comment sections debating the relationship between model scale and reasoning ability. Some opinions suggest that "parameter stacking has hit a ceiling."
Additionally, early OpenAI experimental models, including GPT-5.5 and GPT-rosalind, were leaked on Codex, and the developer community is actively testing performance differences. Intel's stock surged 20% in after-hours trading, with Q1 earnings showing a 40% increase in AI-related revenue.
The CEO emphasized "the return of the CPU to a core AI role," pointing out that the ratio of CPU to GPU in AI inference is shifting from 1:10 to 1:4, with the semiconductor market approaching $1 trillion. AMD rose 60% in one month, benefiting from surging demand for AI chips and Intel's weak performance. Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $2 billion for eight consecutive days, but on-chain data shows that short-term holders' profit-taking pressure has reached three times the level seen at previous annual highs.
Morgan Stanley launched a stablecoin service through money market funds, marking the official entry of traditional financial giants into the stablecoin space. Wisconsin sued five prediction market platforms, including Kalshi, Coinbase, and Polymarket, accusing their "event contracts" of constituting unlicensed gambling.