R2 / V4-Thinking (DeepSeek) release date

Question

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:

@GPT 5.4 (OpenAI) release date@GPT 5.5 (OpenAI) release date@GPT 6 (OpenAI) release date@Claude 5 (Anthropic) release date@Gemini 3.5 (Google) release date@Gemini 4.0 (Google) release date@Grok 5 (xAI) release date@Llama 5 (Meta) release date@V4 (DeepSeek) release date@R2 / V4-Thinking (DeepSeek) release date (this market)

@Qwen 4 (Alibaba Qwen) release date@Kimi K3 (Moonshot) release date@GLM 5.5 (Z.ai) release date@M3 (Minimax) release date@Mistral 4 (Mistral) release date@OpenAI's next "GPT-OSS" release date@Veo 4 (Google) release date@New image / video "Mango" model (Meta) release date@'Avocado' LLM (Meta) release date@Thinking Machines' first LLM announcement date

Manifold Markets · Answer

Per Manifold Markets prediction market, Before 2026-05-01 is most likely. See the market for live updates (148 traders, as of Mar 25, 2026).