Local and open-weight AI

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

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DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an image-text-to-text transformer model under an MIT license. Users report it is a refresh across its API and that it now leads open-weight models.

Sources

Reference: DeepSeek

Why it matters
It may give developers a more efficient open-weight option for image-text tasks.
Who is affected
Developers and users of open-weight language models, especially those using DeepSeek's API or local models.

Model facts

Only what a source states is shown here. Hardware fit is never worked out from the size of the weights.

Licence
mit
Weights
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Formats
No formats stated.
Runtimes
Transformers

Figures

No figures stated by a source. Memory and speed needs are not estimated here.