DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.1 with hybrid thinking

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Released DeepSeek-V3.1 — one model switching between Think and Non-Think modes, 671B total / 37B active, 128K context, 840B tokens of long-context continued pretraining on top of V3, MIT

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Billed by DeepSeek as its first step toward the agent era; the API's deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner became the non-thinking and thinking modes of one model, merging what had been separate V3 and R1 offerings

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Officialdeepseek.comhttps://deepseek.com/en/news/deepseek-v3-1

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