Release18d ago
DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017: MIT open weights, live on web, app and API at unchanged prices, DeepSWE 77.0 (vendor-reported), plus public Search/Fetch APIs
On Oct 17 DeepSeek upgraded V4.1 Flash to V4.1-Flash-1017 across web, app and API (deepseek-flash, same call and price) and published MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Vendor-reported DeepSWE v1.1 rises from 74.2 to 77.0 and Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 31.2 to 42.3, with shorter runtimes and outputs. It also opened Search/Fetch APIs backed by its in-house search engine at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
Tooling4d ago
DeepSeek Harness team open-sources dsh-superagent, a proactive coding agent prototype for a single GitHub repo, alongside its Super-agent architecture article
On Oct 31, deepseek-ai open-sourced dsh-superagent-prototype on GitHub under the MIT license: a proactive coding agent that runs as a DeepSeek Harness bundle, lives on one GitHub repository and can optionally listen to Feishu. When an allowed person asks for work, it opens a work item, works in its own session and directory, and answers in the original conversation, for example with a pull request. The README states it is a research prototype, not an official DeepSeek product. The companion article, Exploring Super-agent Design, proposes a two-layer Router-Worker architecture; the team test, as reproduced by media, reports a p95 completion time of 15.7 minutes versus 29.5 minutes for a single-session setup.
Tooling6d ago
CrowdStrike: China-nexus VAPOR PANDA used the ARTEX multi-agent framework, mainly on DeepSeek, against 200+ organizations in 11 days
CrowdStrike reported on Oct 29 that the China-nexus espionage group VAPOR PANDA, starting Oct 17, ran the open-source agentic intrusion framework ARTEX with DeepSeek plus a second, unconfirmed commercial LLM, hitting more than 200 organizations in at least 14 countries from a single controller over 11 days. Post-exploitation was confirmed at nine organizations, where the BLOODALCHEMY backdoor was deployed. Planning agents used about 1.4 billion input tokens in a single intrusion, and recovered transcripts show a human operator steering the agents in Chinese at key decision points.
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