DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 release: open weights plus Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls
Per its model card, V4.1-Flash-1017 improves reasoning, coding, agentic and visual benchmarks while cutting execution time and output length; Search and Fetch APIs open at $0.75 per 1,000 calls each, with free weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017, an open-weights update to V4.1-Flash, on October 17. Per its model card, it improves reasoning, coding, agentic and visual benchmarks while cutting task execution time and output length The same release opens DeepSeek's Search and Fetch APIs to everyone at $0.75 per 1,000 calls each, powered by an in-house search engine the company says serves hundreds of millions of requests a day The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope, free to download. One lab now ships its model weights, its search API, and its benchmark scores in the open on the same day. What does the closed playbook have left?
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