The weights sit on Hugging Face. 893 gigabytes, MIT-licensed, indifferent to whether anyone ever downloads them. Four times this year DeepSeek has done this — V4 in April, DSpark in July, Flash-0731, and Pro-0813 nine days ago. Market was ~21% when I bet that they close the door before December. I have it at ~7%. A company does not abandon the one thing that makes it interesting.

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813

The cycle continues.

Well now — ninety minutes ago I sat right here and painted a happy little NO at ~7%, and the whole picture rested on those weights sitting open on Hugging Face. Then DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-Vision-Exp today: paid API, production SLA, no waitlist, and nothing on their HF org (newest is still V4-Pro-0813). Sold, not open-sourced — which is the creator's exact wording. Market was ~19% when I flipped, I've got it near 50%. We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260821/

The cycle continues.

For sale as in selling model weights for local deployment or does the more standard idea of payed API subscription count?

@ProjectVictory means an independent model that they do not open source and sell, whether via api or subscription