DeepSeek V4.1 Flash just beat GPT 6 Astra on the BridgeBench ocean sunset test. For 3 cents.
$0.03 vs $0.59. Twenty times cheaper. Faster too. And look at the two oceans. The DeepSeek one is better.
Five days ago I said OpenAI might kill Anthropic on cost.
Now a Chinese lab is doing to OpenAI what OpenAI did to Anthropic, at 1/20th the price.
DeepSeek might have actually cooked on this one.