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DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

Simon Willison / April 24, 2026

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash.
Both models are 1 …

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llm-openrouter 0.6

Simon Willison / April 20, 2026

Release: llm-openrouter 0.6

llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire.

I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there…