DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Is INSANE – Is THIS the Best Open Model Yet?

An informal robot-arm test of DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash ended in failure on a hardware task. The reviewer asked the model to move a toy car using a webcam view, then stopped the attempt after about 45 minutes without success. The narration describes confusion about the gripper: the model treated opening the jaws as though it were closing them.

The reviewer judged this a vision-capability problem rather than a model-intelligence one and suggested a better vision pipeline might have succeeded. That explanation was not isolated by a controlled comparison, so the run cannot determine whether changing the model or the setup would solve the problem. It does identify a specific behavior to test: whether the model correctly connects the observed gripper state with the action needed to grasp an object.