Aug 21 2026

DeepSeek ships V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a 284B-parameter multimodal model with 13B active, beating Opus 4.8 on the ALE and ZeroBench agent benchmarks at Flash pricing, API-only.

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Anthropic holds the Sonnet 5 price increase · 70%, resolves November 30th 2026
Anthropic IPOs before OpenAI · 75%, resolves August 6th 2027
DeepSeek holds the August 16th price increase · 70%, resolves November 14th 2026
Anthropic keeps Model 2 unreleased through February 2027 · 70%, resolves March 1st 2027
A second flagship API adopts time-of-day pricing · 55%, resolves February 17th 2027
Anthropic runs no production traffic on Fractile silicon in 2027 · 70%, resolves December 31st 2027

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