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China's DeepSeek releases new V4.1-Flash version; model claiming to surpass some Astra capabilities is open-sourced

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DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, claiming to surpass GPT-6 Astra in some coding agent performance evaluations.

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  • •It claims to outperform GPT-6 Astra in some coding agent performance evaluations.
  • •It is reported to have reduced execution time and output volume.
  • •The model weights are provided under the MIT license.
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