DeepSeek Rumored to Release Official Coding Plan and v4.1-Flash-1114

Developers inspecting DeepSeek Chat's live frontend code discovered evidence suggesting the company may release an official Coding Plan and the deepseek-v4.1-flash-1114 model. The string for the new model also appeared on a Chinese contest page, arriving roughly four weeks after the previous flash version shipped. The author argues that an official coding subscription combined with an MIT license for the new model would severely disrupt existing third-party coding plans. Open article →