Deepseek's latest AI model is smarter than ever, but its low running costs come at a price

Tom's Hardware 2026-10-23

Summary:

Deepseek 4.1 Flash 1017 drives cost-per-task further down still — open-weight model is fit for agentic workloads and exceedingly cheap to run

Link:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseeks-latest-ai-model-is-smarter-than-ever-but-its-low-running-costs-come-at-a-price-open-weight-model-is-fit-for-agentic-workloads-but-is-more-prone-to-hallucination-than-proprietary-competitors

From feeds:

Cybersecurity by kevin » Tom's Hardware

Tags:

artificial

Authors:

editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) , Bruno Ferreira

Date tagged:

10/23/2026, 09:40

Date published:

10/23/2026, 08:00