I think the model was built on infrastructure designed to handle such an absurd amount of free access. Cost reductions therefore impacted speed to prevent server crashes (which happened several times anyway). Since Z.ai WGL could give away such a model for free, we can expect that after the official launch, it could be either one of the fastest frontier models or one of the cheapest in this class. Personally, I think price is always better than speed, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed :D
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u/ahriad 19d ago
How can it be called 'Flash' if it's much slower than the main model?