Comment by ilitirit
12 hours ago
I've been using DS v4.1 Flash daily for nearly a month now on Agent Swarm experiments. I've tested it against GLM-5.3-flash and Opus 5.5. DS 4.1 comes out tops for me. Opus 5.5 is still the smartest, but DS 4.1's speed and price more than make up for the "intelligence" gap. I've ran Chief/Builder/Reviewer swarms autonomously for multiple days. I think my new workflow is going to have DS 4.1 Flash do all the engineering and just have Opus review its work. 4.1 Flash really is a very impressive model. Kudos to the Deepseek team.
Ok but this is a new model with significant architectural differences and new training run.
Then I guess all that it changes is that my proposed setup gets even better?
Huh? This is a new checkpoint. It has identical architecture, only different weights, and most likely just more post-training.
Much like Qwen 3.8 Next; which is qwen4-exp in a lot of the code/patches, there's usually a tick-tock cycle with LLMs. That said, it's hard to know for closed frontier models.
It's not identical, it has vision built in and asymmetric active from encode to decode.
DeepSeek delivery deliberately uses confusing version numbers.
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