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DeepSeek Shipped Its Fourth Model in 11 Weeks. Rivals Haven't.

DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 landed on Hugging Face Saturday, Oct. 17, with broad self-reported benchmark gains over a five-week-old predecessor. The numbers are DeepSeek's own, but the weights are real, free, and a stranger on the internet is already quantizing them.

4 min read · 2026-10-18 · #DeepSeek · #open weights · #Hugging Face · #LLM benchmarks · #open source AI
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Your DeepSeek API Bill Didn't Change. The Model Did.

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A Tech Founder Made $300 Shooting Zombies in SF's Tenderloin

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Space

241,000 AU: NASA's Ex-Chief Scientist Redraws Solar System's Edge

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ASUS Charges $2,599 for a Laptop NVIDIA Actually Designed

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OpenAI Tripled ChatGPT Advertisers to 60,000 by Slashing Prices

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Valve Needed One Day to Beat Epic's AI-Coded Launcher

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Who Let an Unauthorized Engineer Into OpenAI's Conference Room?

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Ukraine Needed Four Days to Gut Russia's Google

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Your $1,999 RTX 5090 Now Costs $9,000. NVIDIA Doesn't Care.

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Policy

Trump’s Portfolio Reflects Confidence in American Space Leadership - Not a Scandal

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Hardware

Your $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Bets on Apps That Don't Exist Yet

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Xbox Needed One Day to Deny Its Own GTA VI Leak

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