DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash with native multimodal vision
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, the smallest model in its new architecture family, with native multimodal vision; call it as deepseek-flash on the API. The company says it beats V4 Pro on cost and speed and will route deepseek-v4-pro traffic to Flash (at Flash pricing) after Sept 14 until V4.1 Pro ships.