Abacus AI Launches Smaug Flash: Open Weights at $0.10/M Input, Tuned for Personal Agents
bindureddy · x · 2026-09-12
Abacus AI (bindureddy) announced Smaug Flash, a new open-weights fine-tune available on Hugging Face (MIT license) and via the RouteLLM API:
- Pricing: $0.10/M input tokens, $0.40/M output tokens
- Claims DeepSeek Flash-level performance at 300% cheaper
- Fine-tuned from DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, optimized for personal agents and code
- 8-bit/fp8 support aimed at local and on-device deployment
Related event: Abacus AI Open-Sources Smaug Flash at $0.10/M Input Tokens(2 posts)→
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