DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ignored by eval community despite its significance

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-16

A commentator argues DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has the biggest gap between its significance and evaluator-community interest: no ARC-AGI, no math arena, no WeirdML runs. A "0.1 flash" version bump doesn't sound like big news, and its middling Artificial Analysis score compounds the neglect. The author finds this disappointing and notes how minor-version updates get overlooked in an eval-driven discourse.

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