DeepSeek V4.1 Flash matches Astra on 3D, but vision quality still lags rivals
bookwormengr · x · 2026-10-19
The author revisits his earlier take that 3D work (Blender, Three.js) is not that hard and RL environments are cheaper than assumed, so open models would catch up fast — now borne out by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash matching Astra. He cautions DeepSeek's image understanding still trails Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5 and Astra, and vision is critical for self-review, leaving subtle bugs. US labs' higher-quality pretraining data remains a durable edge unless China's data ecosystem matures. A quoted post notes the launch is cheap and fast, mocking OpenAI having marketed Astra's 3D capability as AGI last month.
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