DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Appears on Hugging Face

A Reddit post in r/LocalLLaMA points to deepseek-ai publishing the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model on Hugging Face; the post itself offers no further details.

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