DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 released: better coding, 3D, vision and agents with 1M context at same price

Rry✨ @web3_scholar_Originally posted 2026.10.17

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deepseek has a new Flash model out: V4.1 Flash-1017. it's better at coding, 3d tasks, visual understanding, and agent workflows it's also faster, gives shorter outputs, and comes with a 1M-token context window at the same api pricing. haven't tested it myself yet, but the improvements look interesting, especially for coding and building with ai