V4.1 Flash is ~3x faster than V4-Flash and smarter per token, shows sensible self-debugging
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-08
Blogger teortaxesTex shares hands-on observations of a new model version: V4.1 Flash is roughly 3x faster than V4-Flash while seeming smarter per token. It likes to take lots of images and reason hard about them, and shows fairly reasonable ideas about debugging its own work — with 'Visual Primitives' repeatedly delivering.
Related event: V4.1 Flash benchmarks about 3x faster than V4-Flash(2 posts)→
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