DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale

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Released DeepSeek-V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale — the official successor to V3.2-Exp, with thinking during tool use; weights for both under MIT (Speciale offered on a temporary API endpoint until December 15)

Why it matters

Open-weight reasoning models; DeepSeek claimed V3.2-Speciale reached gold-level results at IMO, IOI and other 2025 competitions

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Officialdeepseek.comhttps://www.deepseek.com/en/news/deepseek-v3-2

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