By Reuters | Updated: September 10, 2026
BEIJING, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model in its new architecture family, according to a statement.
The release came as the company is starting to prepare for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s tech-focused STAR Market, Reuters has reported.
DeepSeek said the new model is designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput and scaling to larger models.
Reporting by Shi Bu and Eduardo Baptista; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus
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