
Minor changes to the name, such as using "R3" instead of "R2", are acceptable when determining the release.
Important: V4 (thinking) would count as fulfilling the criterion above. V4 Instruct would not.
See also:
Claude 5 (Anthropic) release date
Gemini 3.5 (Google) release date
Gemini 4.0 (Google) release date
R2 / V4-Thinking (DeepSeek) release date (this market)
Qwen 4 (Alibaba Qwen) release date
Kimi K3 (Moonshot) release date
Mistral 4 (Mistral) release date
OpenAI's next "GPT-OSS" release date
New image / video "Mango" model (Meta) release date
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Bought NO on "before Feb 15." The Information reports mid-February as the internal target, with Feb 17 specifically mentioned. That is after Feb 15. DeepSeek has made no official announcement, and 3 days is extremely tight with zero public acknowledgment. The Feb 17 timing also coincides with Lunar New Year, which could mean delay rather than early release. The "before Mar 1" answer seems more reasonable given the leak.
Arguably deepseek v3.2 is r2, they just haven't called it that https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news251201 https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1996110256628539409
@Bayesian It would depend on whether R2 as a model would ever actually come out or not. Since they have stated they plan to release R2 and V4 as separate models, currently would make sense to not.
Since they have stated they plan to release R2 and V4 as separate models
Oh this is news to me. I'm curious where you saw this? If that's the case then yeah I agree the idea would moreso be to fallback to V4-Think if that's what R2 was "meant" to be or it's generally understood that that's the new major reasoning model from DeepSeek and the R<n> family is gobbled up by the V<n> family of models if that makes sense
@Bayesian I don't think it should count. This is a market about R2. Minor name changes are allowed, but surely not an entirely different model family?
@Bayesian I say no for the simple reason that we have a separate market about this. If someone wanted to bet on V4, they could have done it there. This was about R2, the successor to R1 as determined by DeepSeek and their naming conventions, not us. https://manifold.markets/Bayesian/when-will-deepseek-release-v4
Also, we had R1-0528, V3.1, V3.1 Terminus, and V3.2 Exp. It seems arbitrary to draw the line by saying V4 thinking is the correct successor for the purposes of this market rather than any of those. DeepSeek had a naming convention and people bet on it. If they stop using that convention I say everything resolves NO.
@Bayesian https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-clearly-not-interested-in-scaling-up-160-person-team-focused-on-developing-new-models here they refer to Financial Times who cite anonymous sources saying they are developing v4 and r2 as separate models.
@AffineTyped for real though I'm just bearish on them and haven't thought hard about $0.50 bets I'm placing here
@Bayesian look at July, I have no mana but i think u might want to bet on this. maybe overpriced maybe not??? idk
