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The latest DeepSeek Pro model is available only through an API, and OpenRouter is the practical link because DeepSeek has no obvious announcement page for it.

The author reports that the newest DeepSeek Pro release is API-only. They link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek does not appear to have published a clear announcement page. ✦ AI generated

the author · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-12 · original ↗

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The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model.

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