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What changedOrcaRouter says all four DeepSeek models released in the V4 generation carry MIT licences, including the flagship V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash. It finds no repository, model card or licence text for V4.1 Pro, so there is no licence to check for that model.
That four-for-four record makes an MIT licence plausible if V4.1 Pro ships, OrcaRouter argues, but it is a pattern, not a promise. The article also notes that V4.1 Pro could be a partner-gated or capability-restricted tier, which would make its licensing a business decision rather than a safe extrapolation from earlier releases.
Open weights would allow teams to fine-tune and redistribute a model, but OrcaRouter estimates that a 1.6-trillion-parameter model would require storage on the scale of a terabyte. That is a self-hosting option, not a laptop download.
Sources and evidence- Will DeepSeek V4.1 Pro Ship Open Weights? – OrcaRouter: OrcaRouter says four shipped DeepSeek V4-era models carry MIT licences, and argues that this makes an MIT licence plausible for V4.1 Pro if it ships, while stressing that no licence or model card exists for it.
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