DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash: open-weight, native vision, beats Opus 5 at lower prices
dair_ai · x · 2026-09-10
DeepSeek officially released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, and the reception is glowing:
- The smallest model in its new architecture family, with native visual understanding
- Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models
- Released with open weights
- Third-party commentary says it outperforms Opus 5 on key benchmarks at lower prices, calling it extremely efficient
dairai calls it 'another goated release.'
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