DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash-1017 With Higher Benchmark Scores

DeepSeek released the faster DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on Oct 17 via its site, app and developer platform. Its own benchmarks show Humanity's Last Exam rising from 36.8 to 42.6 without tools, Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 31.2 to 42.3 and DeepSWE v1.1 from 74.2 to 77.0. The launch follows slowdowns and a roughly five-hour outage.

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