--- title: Another DeepSeek Moment | daily.dev description: DeepSeek's updated flash model achieves dramatic benchmark improvements — some metrics more than doubling, one going 7x — without changing the underlying model... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/another-deepseek-moment-9bdinhjs2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Another DeepSeek Moment | daily.dev og:description: DeepSeek's updated flash model achieves dramatic benchmark improvements — some metrics more than doubling, one going 7x — without changing the underlying model... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/another-deepseek-moment-9bdinhjs2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9BdiNHJS2.png og:image:alt: Another DeepSeek Moment og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Another DeepSeek Moment **[Two Minute Papers](https://daily.dev/sources/twoninutepapers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DeepSeek's updated flash model achieves dramatic benchmark improvements — some metrics more than doubling, one going 7x — without changing the underlying model architecture or size. The gains come entirely from improvements to the post-training step, which teaches the model strategy, planning, error-checking, and recovery. The updated flash model even outperforms the larger pro model. The weights are freely downloadable, and the model can be run via API at low cost. The pace of improvement raises the possibility that within a year, a free open model could approach frontier-level intelligence runnable on consumer hardware. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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