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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is getting surprisingly close to GPT-5.6 Sol territory, while being absurdly cheap

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DeepSeek just released V4.1 Flash, a 552B MoE model with only 8B active parameters on input and 16B on output. -Link to X posts: https://x.com/deepseek\_ai/status/2097930608790167907 - Link to Hugging face model page: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash - Link to the paper: https…

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Timeline · 17 reports

  1. 2026-09-13 06:12 · r/reinforcementlearning
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Tech Report
  2. 2026-09-12 19:09 · r/huggingface
    We’re testing DeepSeek V4.1 flash bs GLM 5.3 flash. V4.1 is free to use.
  3. 2026-09-12 17:12 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash running locally on 8× A40 — ~40 tok/s Q2_K, ~32 tok/s Q4_K_M
  4. 2026-09-12 05:56 · Latent Space
    [AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale
  5. 2026-09-11 22:24 · Unite.AI
    Baseten Adds DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash to Model APIs With 1M-Token Context
  6. 2026-09-11 14:56 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: GGUF + 4.75bpw EXL3 are out, looking for devs with 4× DGX Sparks to help validate the EXL3 TP4 recipe
  7. 2026-09-11 03:09 · Pandaily
    Cambricon Day-0 Adapts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on vLLM Stack
  8. 2026-09-10 20:00 · r/LocalLLaMA
    CPU Only Experimental Sloppy Deepseek V4.1 Flash
  9. 2026-09-10 19:45 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Livebench added Deepseek v4.1 flash
  10. 2026-09-10 19:05 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 510 GB but only about 150 of it has to be in memory. I read the shard headers and made a fit checker.
  11. 2026-09-10 16:05 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is available in HuggingChat
  12. 2026-09-10 16:05 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is available in HuggingChat
  13. 2026-09-10 11:23 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Deepseek V4.1 Flash Release Video [Made with Deepseek V4.1 Flash]
  14. 2026-09-10 10:01 · r/LocalLLaMA
    guide to using reasoning_effort on deepseek v4.1 flash
  15. 2026-09-10 08:37 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash surprised ....
  16. 2026-09-10 08:27 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Deepseek V4.1 Flash is 748B, not 552B
  17. 2026-09-10 07:56 · r/singularity
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is getting surprisingly close to GPT-5.6 Sol territory, while being absurdly cheap

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