DeepSeek v4 Flash is actually pretty good.
Is it as good as the benchmarks claim? No. It is benchmaxxed like everything else shipping right now.
But it is a 284B parameter model. At that size it has no business performing this well.
It beats GPT 5.6 Luna in real use. A model a fraction of the size, from a lab a fraction of the budget.
DeepSeek keeps doing more with less than anyone in the world.
Very impressed.