DeepSeek-V4-Flash Hits 220B Throughput in 48h; B.AI Free

The headline figure is throughput, not capability, so the real signal is that free, unrestricted access can drive massive consumption almost immediately. That matters most for competing inference providers, whose paid tiers now sit next to a zero-cost alternative, and for anyone bearing the compute cost of that traffic. Whether the free-access model survives contact with sustained demand — and whether usage holds after the launch window — is the open question.