DeepSeek Flash lands in Token Pass, OpenAI takes on COBOL, and Claude Code warns before costly resumes
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is out with MIT-licensed weights, and Vercel added it to Token Pass on Oct 20. The API name
deepseek-flashnow points at it. - Vercel made WebSockets in Functions generally available, and skipped monorepo deployments no longer count against rate limits.