
Minor changes to the name, such as using "R3" instead of "R2", are acceptable when determining the release.
To count as released, the model must be accessible to some people outside DeepSeek. if it's banned in the US but releases in China this market would still resolve YES. If it is available through some API only this counts as a release.
See also:
/Bayesian/when-will-google-release-gemini-3
/Bayesian/when-will-xai-release-grok-5
/Bayesian/when-will-openai-release-gpt6
/Bayesian/when-will-anthropic-release-claude-qZd5QEQ225
/Bayesian/when-will-deepseek-release-r2 (this market)
/Bayesian/when-will-deepseek-release-v4
/Bayesian/when-will-meta-release-llama-5-6h9UypqOdp
/Bayesian/when-will-alibaba-release-qwen-4
/Bayesian/when-will-moonshot-release-kimi-k3
/Bayesian/when-will-google-release-nano-banan
/Bayesian/when-will-openai-release-their-next
/Bayesian/when-will-thinking-machines-announc
Update 2025-11-27 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): If DeepSeek releases R2 and V4 as separate models as they have stated, the market will resolve based on R2 specifically. However, if it becomes clear that V4-Think is what R2 was "meant" to be or if the R family is absorbed into the V family and V4-Think is understood as DeepSeek's new major reasoning model replacing the R2 concept, then V4-Think may count as satisfying this market's resolution criteria.
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@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.
@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
@JCl You have to look at this question as well:https://manifold.markets/Bayesian/when-will-deepseek-release-v4
Yes very probable to have a new Deepseek model in the next few months but it might not be called R2.
