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DeepSeek open-sources its production inference engineDeepInfer supports NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, with optimisations for scheduling, speculative decoding and large-model execution. The release does not include DeepSeek’s full cache-management, prefill/decode-disaggregation or load-balancing stack.→SGLang 0.5.22 delivers faster model loading and a critical state-correctness fixSGLang 0.5.22 introduces an InstantTensor loader that maintainers say makes models load up to ten times faster, adds new model and diffusion support, and improves DeepSeek-V4.1 throughput on H200 GPUs. It also fixes a bug that could resume hybrid-linear models from incorrect Mamba states when speculative decoding and structured output were combined.→US agencies accuse Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale model distillationUS law-enforcement and intelligence officials alleged that companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba used distillation to train their own systems from American models. The statement said the activity likely had Chinese government awareness and could improve military and cyber capabilities, claims Beijing rejected.→DeepSeek removes peak-hour API pricing on weekendsThe update changes the peak/off-peak schedule introduced earlier in August so Saturdays and Sundays use the lower off-peak rate. Weekday peak pricing remains in place, making this a targeted capacity-management change rather than a blanket price cut.→DeepSeek adds vision to V4 Flash in an experimental API modelDeepSeek's official API documentation says the experimental model matches V4 Flash on text capabilities, including agents, reasoning and world knowledge, while adding mixed text-and-image input. The company reports multimodal agent performance close to Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and makes the model available through Chat Completions, Messages and Responses.→DeepSeek open-sources a plugin-oriented agent harnessThe DeepSeek Harness is built on the Cordis framework and provides components for context handling, tool use, orchestration, state, permissions, and error management. It also supports append-only session logs that can be inspected, forked, searched, and replayed.→