V4.1 Flash is ~3x faster than V4-Flash, smarter per token and image-hungry
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-08
AI observer teortaxesTex reports that V4.1 Flash is roughly 3x faster than V4-Flash and appears smarter per token, noting the model tends to take in lots of images and reason over them extensively.
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