According to CoinMeta, the capabilities of the new version of DeepSeek have significantly improved. Foreign media reports suggest that this may be related to the distillation of Astra. Several informed sources cited by The Information stated that the v4.1-flash-1017 version updated on October 17th, as well as the newly released Kimi K3.1 Pro from "The Dark Side of the Moon," made extensive use of the outputs from OpenAI GPT-6 Astra during the training process. In a test of 180 real web page tasks involving browser operations, the score of the new version of DeepSeek increased from 70.9 in the old version to 75.0, approaching Astra's score of 77.9. However, the cost per model call for the new version was only 0.22 US dollars, whereas for Astra, it was as high as 10.77 US dollars, representing a difference of nearly 49 times. Previously, Claude had always been the main target for distillation by domestic AI companies. However, in the past two months, Anthropic has continuously strengthened its protections, prompting domestic laboratories to shift their focus to Astra. The founder of DeepSeek, Leung Man-fung, was initially reluctant to rely on distillation in the research and development of v4, but ultimately compromised under competitive pressure.