Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017, an open-weight model that reportedly improves agentic task performance, speed, and cost efficiency. The company also introduced Search and Fetch APIs for its internal search engine.

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