DeepSeek Releases V4.1 Flash Slashing Cached Token Costs by 60 Percent
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash, a 552-billion parameter model that activates only 8 billion parameters on input and 16 billion on output. The architecture shrinks Key-Value cache sizes to 890 bytes per token, lowering cached input rates to $0.003 per million tokens while scoring 74.2 on DeepSWE v1.1.
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DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash, a 552-billion parameter model that activates only 8 billion parameters on input and 16 billion on output. The architecture shrinks Key-Value cache sizes to 890 bytes per token, lowering cached input rates to $0.003 per million tokens while scoring 74.2 on DeepSWE v1.1.
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