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AI IntelligenceOct 17, 2026AI Intelligence

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DeepSeek releases open-weight V4.1-Flash-1017, with search APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls

Deepseek released V4.1-Flash-1017, an open-weight model it says outperforms its predecessor on benchmarks, runs faster and returns shorter outputs. It also opened its search engine via Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls; users in Claude Code and Codex get free access for now.

Frontier EditorialOct 17, 2026Source: The Decoder

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DeepSeek releases open-weight V4.1-Flash-1017, with search APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls: Deepseek released V4.1-Flash-1017, an open-weight model it says outperforms its predecessor on benchmarks, runs faster and returns shorter outputs. It also opened its search engine via Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls; users in Claude Code and Codex get free access for now.

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