New Delhi, Dec. 2 -- DeepSeek, a China-based AI startup, has released two new reasoning-first models, V3.2 and V3.2-Special, thatthe company says rival the latest offerings from OpenAI and Google. The announcement highlights improved agentic reasoning, a new "thinking in tool-use" approach, and benchmark results that include gold-level performance on international math and informatics Olympiads.

DeepSeek positions V3.2 as the successor to its V3.2-Exp build and describes both models as "reasoning-first" systems intended for agentic workloads. The standard V3.2 is available on the company's app, web, and API; the higher-compute V3.2-Speciale is for API users and, according to DeepSeek, focuses on maximal reasoning capacity. The company pu...