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DeepSeek updates V4.1-Flash, releases MIT weights
The company reports gains on reasoning, coding, agent and vision benchmarks, but the results are self-reported.
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DeepSeek has released V4.1-Flash-1017, a minor update to its V4.1-Flash model, with model weights available under the MIT License, according to the model card on Hugging Face. [2]
DeepSeek says the update improves reasoning, coding, agentic tasks and visual benchmark results, while reducing task execution time and output length. These are company-reported results; the model card lists benchmark scores, but the supplied sources do not provide independent validation of the claims. [2]
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