DeepSeek v4.1 flash paper figure shows sharp quality jump at 1M-token context — agents are context-hungry

TheZachMueller · x · 2026-09-19

andrewncarr highlighted a must-study figure from the DeepSeek v4.1 flash paper: quality rises sharply once context length is extended to 1M tokens, with similar gains visible in MiMo v2.6's RL graphs. His takeaway: agents are context-hungry. Replying, Zach Mueller joked, "brb as I load all of Wikipedia into context every turn."

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