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Updated Oct 17, 2026

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DeepSeek published V4.1-Flash-1017 on 17 October 2026 under the MIT licence. Its model card claims big agentic-coding gains; no independent test yet.

Hacker News1067 points · 936 commentsOct 9
Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
The author reports running all-day coding sessions on DeepSeek 4.1 Flash for under a dollar and argues Chinese labs can undercut frontier pricing the way generic drug makers do. The top replies push back: several commenters say Claude Opus still wins clearly on hard coding tasks, and the gap is worth paying for.
Why it matters If your routing already sends easy work to a cheap tier, this is the thread to read before you pick which cheap tier.
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