DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: smarter, better at coding and less than half the cost per task
DeepSeek updates V4.1 Flash: up from 39 to 45 on the Artificial Analysis index, with cost per task down 54%. We put it to work on a website and a video.
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Iris-3B vs the big ones: a 3B image model on one GPU
Iris-3B, an open 3B image model that generates in pixel space with no VAE, against GPT Image, FLUX and friends on the BudgetPixel Arena prompts.
Which open model to use instead of Claude, GPT or Gemini
If you use Claude, GPT or Gemini today, this is the open model we would test first for the same job, compared by model class and by workload.
GLM 5.3 is now available on Helmcode
GLM 5.3 ties Kimi K3 at the top of the open models and runs on our European infrastructure with 1M of context and the same 150 euros a month.
GLM 5.2 orchestrates, DeepSeek V4 Flash executes
How to design multi-model systems where one open LLM plans, another executes, and the context they hand each other stays efficient.
GLM 5.2 is now available on Helmcode
GLM 5.2, the 744B MIT open model, now runs on Helmcode's European infrastructure with zero logs and a flat rate of 150 euros a month.
NaN: the community's first month in numbers
117 billion tokens, 3.68 million requests, 21 countries, and 99.98% uptime. NaN is a community of builders with its own inference infrastructure and a private platform to deploy apps and agents.
AI for Dummies - Part 1
In this post we'll learn what parameters and quantization are, so we can figure out how much space AI models take up.
How to set up an inference server to serve AI models
In this post I'll walk you through how the community's inference servers are set up: the hardware we use, the stack we run, and the models we serve.