alt Hacker NewsHilarious sentence: "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, delivering substantial improvements across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks." (emphasis mine)
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It's not really contradictory, minor changes can have major effects.
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Hoping it's minor relative to what's coming
It's a bit refreshing to read updates from an AI lab without bullshit doomerism and overwhelming sense of self-importance from shit like OpenAI and Claude.
Also, DS is an excellent model.
I'm at 1 trying to get to 10. I move to 2. Minor update. 100% improvement towards goal.
These are not mutually exclusive.
That is how exponential functions work. Improve every aspect of a system with 1% and you may get easily 50% more performance.
It's about playing to two different audiences.
The CCP requires extensive certification for new major releases, to make sure a model doesn't do anything they don't want it to.
To get around this, Chinese labs only bump versions when they have to and usually claim it's a minor update.
Then on the other side, they're obviously trying to market to the tech crowd...
Kinda shows their team is more engineers than marketers.