DeepSeek Ships Minor V4.1-Flash-1017 Update

DeepSeek says V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update to V4.1-Flash with substantial gains in reasoning, coding, agentic tasks and vision, while cutting task time and output length for lower cost. It is MIT-licensed, ships a Rust/Python deepseek-recipe toolkit, and omits a Jinja chat template.

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