AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

DeepSeek's Search API, launched October 17, scores 69 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index, ranking 17th of 27, at the lowest price of any paid search API on the board.

DeepSeek released its in-house inference software DeepInfer for free and disclosed that one cluster handles 155 trillion tokens a day, with disk-cached context cutting reuse costs sharply.

runinfra launched a coding subscription starting at $10/month that routes open models like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 into Claude Code, Codex, opencode and 16 other agents, claiming up to 378 tok/s.

HuggingChat now offers DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 with 40+ free messages, unlimited Exa web search and crawls, and built-in Hugging Face MCP.

Liquid Inference shipped weekend integrations including DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 with Deepseek Harness, an Openclaw agent backend plugin, a ComfyUI image/video plugin, and embedding models.

A rundown of free tiers, credit-based access, and cheapest API pricing for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, flagging platforms not yet confirmed on the 1017 build.

Pirate Face launched a privacy layer that anonymizes personal details before requests reach providers like OpenRouter, using zkAPI and a TEE scrubber model.