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Morning brief, Oct 17

DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash 1017 weights and API access

DeepSeek's MIT-licensed model card describes an updated Flash snapshot and publishes the weights on Hugging Face. OpenRouter lists DeepSeek as a provider of the October 17 model at $0.15/$0.60 per million input/output tokens; DeepSeek claims gains in coding and agent benchmarks over the previous Flash version.

ThereforeThe MIT license lets developers adapt and deploy the model on infrastructure they control.

Hugging Face — DeepSeek model card · OpenRouter

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