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DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash 1017, claiming top open-weight performance

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 under the MIT license, claiming stronger benchmarks and faster task completion than its predecessor. The 552B model is already seeing community support for local inference and quantization.

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Timeline · 18 reports

  1. 2026-10-17 21:41 · r/LocalLLM
    Xolotl (Strata based) - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (552B) on a single 4090 at ~27 tok/s, Uncensored 1017 quant coming in a couple of days
  2. 2026-10-17 21:40 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Xolotl (Strata based) - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (552B) on a single 4090 at ~27 tok/s, Uncensored 1017 quant coming in a couple of days
  3. 2026-10-17 20:42 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Support for ds4 · PR #1225 · antirez/ds4
  4. 2026-10-17 20:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 [GGUF + Abliterated]
  5. 2026-10-17 18:56 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 open weights under the MIT license
  6. 2026-10-17 18:55 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 open weights under the MIT license
  7. 2026-10-17 15:00 · Techmeme
    DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers "stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs" than its predecessor
  8. 2026-10-17 14:15 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017) Now Leads Open-Weight Models
  9. 2026-10-17 10:33 · The Decoder
    Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
  10. 2026-10-17 08:54 · r/huggingface
    🐳 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 released: MIT weights, 1M context, and stronger coding and agent benchmark results
  11. 2026-10-17 08:53 · MarkTechPost
    DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API
  12. 2026-10-17 08:21 · Hacker News Front Page
    DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
  13. 2026-10-17 08:09 · r/LocalLLaMA
    deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 · Hugging Face
  14. 2026-10-17 00:00 · Vercel Blog
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 now available on AI Gateway
  15. 2026-10-16 16:40 · r/LocalLLM
    GitHub - vincalkr/Strata-DSV4.1: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash GSQ on a single RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100, ROCm/HIP): the v41 engine, the optimizations with their measured numbers, and the docs
  16. 2026-10-16 07:11 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x DGX Spark: my numbers vs Patrick Moorhead's results via Wccftech.
  17. 2026-10-16 03:06 · Pandaily
    OpenCode Makes DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Free to Use, With a 200K Context Window
  18. 2026-10-15 23:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    **DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on 4x Radeon AI PRO R9700 with affinity: the "refused" 4-card config works, ~79 tok/s on real cards**

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