DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol And Anthropic’s Opus 5 On Coding And Cybersecurity At An ~86x Lower Cost, While Reducing HBM Requirements By 3.8x And SSD Ones By 8x

DeepSeek's engineers are a marvel, excelling in extracting every ounce of efficiency from the architectural constraints that characterize contemporary LLMs, as they appear to have done with the just-released V4.1 Flash, which is phenomenally competitive with