DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Lands on Ollama Cloud with Zero Data Retention

Key Info

Ollama has made DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 available on Ollama Cloud, hosted in the US with zero data retention, and says it is stronger on agentic tasks while costing less per task. The updated model is also being rolled out to users already on deepseek-v4.1-flash.

Highlights

• Available via ollama run deepseek-v4.1-flash:1017-cloud
• Launchable in Claude Code with ollama launch claude --model deepseek-v4.1-flash:1017-cloud
• Launchable in OpenCode with ollama launch opencode --model deepseek-v4.1-flash:1017-cloud
• Upstream release claims better benchmark performance, faster task completion and shorter outputs than the prior version
• Existing deepseek-v4.1-flash users receive the updated model automatically