Back in August we covered DeepSeek’s move to make weekends half price — off-peak rates all day on Saturday and Sunday (the post is here). A reasonable reaction to that news is: nice press release, but who actually restructures a workload around a discount? The answer, it turns out, is anyone whose...
Yesterday — 11 September 2026 — one of my long generations came back at roughly 250 tokens per second. Not a spec sheet and not a vendor benchmark: one run, on my own account, with the rate visible in the client. It was fast enough that I stopped and checked the number twice.
Here is what a rate...
Today DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, and for once the interesting part is not the benchmark table.
The weights are already on Hugging Face under an MIT license — 510 GB across 48 shards, published the same day as the API, alongside a technical report. The report's title is the whole...
For the past couple of months my default setup in Hermes Agent has been simple: DeepSeek V4-Flash at medium reasoning effort for all the routine, everyday tasks — posting to blogs, saving links to my knowledge base, cron digests, server checks, translations. Flash-class models handle this kind o...
DeepSeek just made a move that quietly saves everyone money: starting Sunday, August 23, 2026, off-peak rates apply all day on weekends.
That means Saturdays and Sundays are now half-price — all day, every day. Here's the full picture.
Effective 00:00 Beijing Time, August 23,...
DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a multimodal model that reads screenshots, charts, and dashboards — at the same price as the text-only flash. It's a striking step: the cheap, fast tier now does what premium models did a year ago.
deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp is DeepSeek's f...
