BlockBeats news: On March 14, according to a report by WhaleLab, DeepSeek V4, led by Liang Wenfeng, is expected to be officially released in April 2026. The model is positioned as a multimodal large model, with enhanced code capabilities and a strong focus on improving long-term memory, potentially with deep optimization for China’s domestic computing ecosystem.
Meanwhile, Tencent’s HunYuan new model, led by Yao Shunyu, is reportedly set to be released in April, with a scale of approximately 30B parameters and research focus on long-context capabilities and Agent task evaluation.
The mysterious models Healer Alpha and Hunter Alpha recently launched on OpenRouter have also been speculated by the community to be related to an upcoming new generation of domestic models. Overall, domestic large model manufacturers are accelerating their competition in multimodal capabilities, long-term memory, and practical application performance.