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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Update Ships Search APIs
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash update with Search and Fetch APIs for agent workloads.
In brief
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash update with Search and Fetch APIs for agent workloads. DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash model update with Search and Fetch APIs to boost agent capabilities at low cost. Originally reported by Dealroom.
What happened
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17, an update to the V4.1-Flash model it launched in September.
The numbers
The update scores 77.0 on DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark, ahead of Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
Beyond the model
DeepSeek opened Search and Fetch APIs for all developers with in-house search engine serving hundreds of millions of requests daily.
The one thing
DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash model update with Search and Fetch APIs to boost agent capabilities at low cost.
