DeepSeek Previews Multimodal V4 Flash as NYC Tops Tech Talent Market

DeepSeek introduced an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model. [2] The company stated this model nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests. [2]

In related industry shifts, a CBRE report indicates New York City has surpassed the Bay Area as the top tech talent market, recording 394,300 jobs compared to the Bay Area's 375,730. [2]

The Karpathy LLM Wiki implementation is available as an Obsidian plugin that transforms notes into a connected, queryable knowledge base. [1] The tool has reached 37,000 downloads and features zero-embedding graph retrieval. [1]

Unlike some open-source alternatives, this plugin operates without a vector database or embedding model. [1]

DeepSeek’s experimental V4 Flash model demonstrates the continuing push for multimodal agentic capabilities, specifically targeting Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 benchmark. Meanwhile, the Karpathy LLM Wiki plugin highlights a contrasting local-first approach to knowledge retrieval that avoids heavy vector databases. The geographic shift in tech talent to New York City further emphasizes a changing landscape for AI development and hiring. What the sources don't address: When DeepSeek plans to transition its experimental multimodal V4 Flash model into a general release.