How DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-V4-Pro on X
3.1M views, ranked 299 of the 1981 launches we track. It reached a very large number of people who did not save it, which is the pattern across almost every launch at this size.
We’re launching DeepSeek-V4-Pro today! 🚀 🔷 Major Agent upgrades with strong production gains! 🔷 Flexible reasoning effort for V4-Pro & V4-Flash: low for simple tasks, high for daily Agent workflows, max for complex tasks. 🔷 Native OpenAI Responses API support, optimized for
How it compares
A launch means nothing against no one. These are the launches it is actually comparable to, and where this one sits among them.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product release the same kind of announcement | 954 | 692K | 4.4x | 141 |
| over 100K followers accounts of a similar size | 611 | 1.4M | 2.2x | 180 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 4.4x | 299 |
What this launch shows
DeepSeek posted this from an account with 1.1M followers and reached 2.7 times that many people. Accounts of that size usually reach 2.4 times their following, so this is in the normal range.
It ranks 180 of 611 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 4.4 times the median of 688K views.
Reposts led, 2K at 5.8 per 10,000 views against a median of 2.5. A repost is an endorsement without a comment, and a launch with an unusual repost rate was being passed along on purpose.
Bookmarks: 2K. Replies: 613. One bookmark for every 8.2 likes is a low ratio for a launch, and reads as entertainment more than intent.
The post opens with “We’re launching DeepSeek-V4-Pro today”, a first-person opening that the founder-account launches in the directory use most.
It carries an image and no video. 92% of launches in the directory carry a video, so this is the rarer choice, and the few image launches that travelled did it on the strength of the image.
The copy runs 43 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41. The body carries a link, so the post had somewhere to send the reader and paid a little reach for it.
It went out on a Thursday. Launches posted on a Thursday have a median of 724K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.
Whether a launch needs a video covers this: 99% of the launches in the directory carry one, and the guide is about when the 1% is the right call. For the next one, read what viral AI launches share: model launches are the largest category in the directory and travel on the demo.
Developer marketing strategy is the guide for it: developers try before they read, so the post has to let them. This launch sits in the Developer Tool and Frontier Lab directories.
Questions about this launch
When did DeepSeek launch DeepSeek-V4-Pro?
DeepSeek posted the launch on X on 13 August 2026.
How many views did the DeepSeek-V4-Pro launch post get?
3,060,562 views at the last read, ranked 299 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 3 times the account's following.
Who posted the DeepSeek-V4-Pro launch?
@deepseek_ai, which has 1.1M followers.
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