alt Hacker NewsDo you understand that this is a base model? It means you are supposed to take it and post train it. It's much smaller than DeepSeek-v4-Flash, that's already a plus, you compare base to base. 4.1 and 4.1-1017 are trained from the base model.
Do you understand that this is a base model? It means you are supposed to take it and post train it. It's much smaller than DeepSeek-v4-Flash, that's already a plus, you compare base to base. 4.1 and 4.1-1017 are trained from the base model.
I understand why you might think so, as calling it v4.1 does imply that, but no, 4.1 was built from scratch.
Different architecture, v4 is text-only while v4.1 is multimodal and so on.