DeepSeek's engineers are a marvel, excelling in extracting every ounce of efficiency from the architectural constraints that characterize contemporary LLMs, as they appear to have done with the just-released V4.1 Flash, which is phenomenally competitive with the likes of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 on coding and cybersecurity, while entailing just a fraction of their costs! The novel architecture of DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash model DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash model sports a fairly novel architecture. Given the inherent complexity, we'll try to explain the model's main architectural elements using easy-to-understand analogies. The V4.1 Flash is a multimodal Mixture of […]

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SanDisk held an Investor Day presentation earlier this week. Ordinarily, that would be considered par for the course. However, then some of the presentation slides - laden with supposed inaccuracies and key omissions - started doing the rounds on the social media, leading to a backlash from the tech-savvy community. SanDisk fixes HBM capacity per GPU at 192GB, replete with a chronically understated bandwidth of 12.8 TB/s, and omits any pointers on HBF's write endurance An AI model basically consists of a series of transformer blocks that are made up of two key elements: Currently, both the model weights and […]

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