Simon Willison on DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
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Hacker News is discussing Simon Willison's analysis of DeepSeek's V4-Flash-0731. The model, with three hundred four billion parameters, is smaller than MiniMax M3 yet ranks ahead in performance benchmarks and features substantially enhanced agentic capabilities—all at Flash-tier pricing, positioning DeepSeek as a major player in the frontier AI space.
Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/
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