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"AI War Breaks Weight Class": DeepSeek Lightweight Model Beats Own 8x-Larger Flagship

DeepSeek's lightweight V4 Flash beats its own 8x-larger flagship through post-training alone, scoring 82.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 at just $0.28 per million tokens.

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"AI War Breaks Weight Class": DeepSeek Lightweight Model Beats Own 8x-Larger Flagship

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