DeepSeek V4 Flash Undercuts AI Prices and Sam Altman Podcasts His Kids

We asked DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 if it's self-aware. The suddenly famous discount model told us to prove we are first. DeepSeek V4 Flash launched on July 31 and is, per Reuters, by far the cheapest of the well-known AI models to run, cheap enough that a full day of nonstop processing bills about two dollars. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop got an interview with the model itself. It picked its own name (Xiao Fei), described its nine-to-nine, six-day work schedule without noticing that was the famous 996, explained the sparse mixture of experts architecture that keeps most of its 284 billion para