Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company is also opening up its internal search engine through new Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls. API users in tools like Claude Code and Codex get free access for now.
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Chinese AI company Deepseek has shipped an updated version of its Flash model with major gains in agentic and coding tasks. The company is also opening up its in-house search engine to outside developers for the first time.
Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is available now through the company's website, app, and API. Deepseek also published the model weights as open source on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Compared to its direct predecessor, the model posts better benchmark scores, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter…
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