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Open weight and Chinese models

DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash on Sept 10 as an open-weights model that outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol on agentic coding benchmarks while undercutting its own V4 Pro pricing, with V4 Pro retirement postponed to Sept 14 (flowtivity.ai).

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  • US claims Chinese AI companies' core AI strategy is distilling American models
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