2026.10.19Monday·AI beyond the horizon·himiao.ai
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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Release

DeepSeek released the V4.1-Flash-1017 snapshot on October 17, 2026: the Hugging Face model card lists code and weights under the MIT license, and the in-house Search/Fetch API opened the same day. · 2 stories

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  1. Oct 1809:26

    DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash-1017: MIT-Licensed Weights, In-House Search API

    One release covers both an MIT-licensed flagship snapshot and an in-house search API; server-side Search/Fetch calls inside DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex are free until November 1.

  2. 02:13

    DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Released: Weights Reportedly Open Under MIT License, In-House Search API Launches

    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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