DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

With a 1M context and 384K of output, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now absorbs traffic once handled by V4 Pro.

DeepSeek put the first landing point of its new architecture on the smallest model. V4.1 Flash handles native vision, a 1M context and 384K of output, with API concurrency of 2500. The company says it beats V4 Pro on performance, cost, speed and total time, and from September 14 V4 Pro requests route to it. The line proves native vision and throughput on a small model first.

AI Briefing, Oct 20: Waymo Heads to Spain as OpenAI Is Reported to Chase a $30B Raise

Waymo's move into Spain leads the AI briefing for October 20: in the past 24 hours, Waymo said it aims to carry its first riders in Madrid in 2027, De...

Admin 10/20/2026

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference engine behind its own services

DeepSeek's inference framework DeepInfer was open-sourced on October 20, 2026: DeepSeek has placed the inference framework that powers its own large-s...

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AI Briefing, Oct 19: MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash as Anthropic Commits 5% of Its Shares to a Public Benefit Fund

MiniMax's M3.1 Flash launch leads the October 19 AI briefing: in the past 24 hours, MiniMax turned the Flash model it quietly shipped in late Septembe...

Admin 10/19/2026

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Tops Code Arena's Open Rankings: No. 12 Overall at a Tenth of the Rival's Cost

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20261017 has taken the top open-model spot on a coding leaderboard. On the Code Arena WebDev leaderboard published by Arena on Oct...

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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Is Out: DeepSWE Climbs to 77, Price Unchanged

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 was officially released on October 17, 2026, with DeepSeek rolling the version out the same day through its official WeChat a...

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OpenCode Makes DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Free: No Quota Charge, but Context Capped at 200K

OpenCode announced on October 15, 2026 that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now free to use inside its platform, with calls no longer counting against plan quo...

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Lifts ARC-AGI Scores: Abstract Reasoning Up, Cost Per Task Up Too

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's newest results were published by ARC Prize on October 6, 2026: in the ARC-AGI (Verified) evaluation, the independent evaluator s...

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash New Review: Code task costs are about one-fifteenth that of Astra

On September 14, 2026, AI inference platform Fireworks AI released a review of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. In its DeepSWE code tasks, the model scored a maxi...

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