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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: more efficient prefill for coding agents
Baseten · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a 552B-parameter model with asymmetric prefill and decode compute optimized for coding agents.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building coding agents or agentic systems who need cost-efficient inference with improved KV cache efficiency.
- Watch out
- Model scores 54.8 on automation benchmarks and under 50 on image reasoning, so human oversight remains necessary for production workflows.
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- deepseek
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