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DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash update takes the top of OpenRouter's usage rankings

Chinese AI lab whose M3.1 Flash ranks third on OpenRouter by weekly tokens

On October 17, DeepSeek published a numbered update to its low-cost V4.1 Flash model. Within a day it handled 3.04 trillion tokens through OpenRouter, a 345% jump.

Updated Nov 3

fal launches H3 Max, a post-trained video model that tops independent benchmarks

New Capabilities

As of September 2026: Creator of the open-weights H3 base model

fal released H3 Max on September 1, its first post-trained video model. Built from MiniMax's open-weights H3, it generates a five-second clip in about three seconds of wall time.

Updated Sep 2