TopicDeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Release
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Released: Weights Reportedly Open Under MIT License, In-House Search API Launches
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17, an updated snapshot of V4.1-Flash: the weights were reportedly published on Hugging Face under the MIT license; alongside new benchmark scores, the company opened its in-house search and fetch API.

What happened
According to MarkTechPost's October 17 report, DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 that day, an updated snapshot of the V4.1-Flash series. Outlets including aiweekly report the snapshot's weights are now on Hugging Face under the MIT license (MarkTechPost's spec table lists the license as undisclosed; the Hugging Face model card is authoritative).
MarkTechPost reports DeepSeek's published benchmark scores: 77.0 on DeepSWE v1.1 (74.2 for the previous generation, 74.0 for Claude Opus 5) and 42.3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (31.2 previously). DeepSeek also opened its in-house Search/Fetch API at $0.75 per thousand calls; calls made inside DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, and Codex are free until November 1.
Key facts
- Release date: October 17, 2026 (reported by MarkTechPost at 08:53 UTC)
- Weights license: Reportedly published on Hugging Face under the MIT license; some outlets list it as undisclosed — the model card is authoritative
- Benchmarks: 77.0 on DeepSWE v1.1 and 42.3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, both figures published by DeepSeek
- Search API: In-house Search/Fetch API at $0.75 per thousand calls; free inside three coding tools until November 1
- Community buzz: A free-model plugin for DeepSeek Harness gained over 1,700 stars in a day on GitHub's October 17 trending list
Why it matters
DeepSeek opened its in-house search API ($0.75 per thousand calls) alongside the flagship snapshot weights: a single release covering both model weights and an agent search toolchain.
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