DeepSeek V4.1 Flash tops open-source leaderboard with extreme efficiency

Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-09-10

Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf calls the new DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 'mindblowing' — back on top of the open-source leaderboard and extremely cheap. He highlights its smart efficiency techniques and published a video visualizing the forward pass to show what happens inside the model during inference, along with weights and docs.

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