DeepSeek Employee Teases 'Massive' New Model Surpassing V3.2 — V4 Expected April 2026

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A DeepSeek employee posted on Chinese social media teasing a 'massive' next-generation model that surpasses V3.2, which r/LocalLLaMA picked up at 205 upvotes and 68 comments. Independent reporting from NxCode and PYMNTS suggests DeepSeek V4 scales to ~1T total parameters (37B active), targets 80%+ SWE-bench (vs V3's ~49%), and adds Engram memory for 1M context. A 'V4 Lite' briefly appeared on DeepSeek's website March 9.