Similar to DeepSeek V3, the team released their new flagship model over a major US holiday weekend. Given DeepSeek V3.2’s really good performance (on GPT-5 and Gemini 3.0 Pro) level, and the fact that it’s also available as an open-weight model, it’s definitely worth a closer look.Figure 1: Benchmark comparison between DeepSeek V3.2 and proprietary flagship models. This is an annotated figure from the DeepSeek V3.2 report.I covered the predecessor, DeepSeek V3, at the very beginning of my The Bi...