DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash with native vision and lower API pricing
DeepSeek has launched V4.1-Flash, a native multimodal model now live on its API. The company says the 552-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model improves speed and cost, adds visual understanding, introduces lower pricing, and will temporarily route V4-Pro requests to the new model. Developers should test the planned routing change before it reaches production workloads.