Abacus AI CEO @bindureddy announced open-weights Smaug Flash, a personal-agent fine-tune on RouteLLM API at about $0.10/M input and $0.40/M output—claiming DeepSeek Flash-level performance at roughly 4x lower price, with weights on Hugging Face.

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  • ✓Open-weights Smaug Flash tuned for personal agents.
  • ✓RouteLLM API pricing ~$0.10/M in, $0.40/M out.
  • ✓Claims DeepSeek Flash-level performance at ~4x lower price; HF weights.
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