Workers AI - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 now available on Workers AI
Update5 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 20, 2026
@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 is now available on Workers AI. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 552B backbone parameters. It activates 8B parameters per token during prefill and 16B during decode, which keeps input-heavy agentic workloads fast and low-cost.
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