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DeepSeek V4 Flash and Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights drive local inference gains

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Reports describe DeepSeek-V4-Flash and V4.1-Flash running fully offline on consumer and older hardware at high speeds, while Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro's ~2.8T-parameter weights on Hugging Face under a $20M license threshold.

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Timeline · 35 reports

  1. 2026-11-06 01:44 · DEV Community — AI
    Open models vs Claude: Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro against Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5
  2. 2026-11-05 21:16 · r/LocalLLM
    [Crazy AI Lawyer] DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on eight 2018 V100s is doing my real work now: 524K context, every weight in VRAM, 200+ tok/s on code, ~110 on legal writing, RAG and tool calls wired in
  3. 2026-11-05 19:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Moonshot Just Put a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Model on Hugging Face — Kimi K3.1 Pro's Open Weights Are Real, and the Fine Print Matters
  4. 2026-11-05 18:23 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on one RTX 3090: Big updates to the Delta Inference Engine v0.93. Same 41 tok/s at 192GB/IQ2 at better quality, usable from 64 GB RAM, first token ~40% sooner, new Unsloth quants at full speed, EXL3, basic multi-GPU, public CI and more
  5. 2026-11-05 16:51 · Matthew Berman
    Kimi K3.1 weights OUT, open source computer use, SOTA image model, science model, Pika H3: AI NEWS
  6. 2026-11-05 16:23 · DEV Community — AI
    How Fusion works: DeepSeek V4 Pro plans, V4 Flash writes the code
  7. 2026-11-05 14:19 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights Are Out: $20M License Cliff, ~1.56 TB Reality, and Hosted vs Self-Host
  8. 2026-11-05 13:10 · r/LocalLLM
    2x RTX PRO 6000 running DeepSeek-V4-Flash (284B) fully offline: 1,170 tok/s peak
  9. 2026-11-05 07:12 · r/machinelearningnews
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming:LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  10. 2026-11-05 07:09 · Pandaily
    Alibaba Cloud Lingjun Zhenwu M890 SuperPoD Adds Day-Zero Support for Kimi K3.1 Pro
  11. 2026-11-05 06:55 · DEV Community — AI
    LongCat-2.5 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro vs DeepSeek: Which New AI Wins?
  12. 2026-11-05 06:01 · TechNode
    Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights
  13. 2026-11-05 02:23 · Pandaily
    Huawei Ascend Adds Day-Zero Support for Kimi K3.1 Pro Across Atlas A3 and Ascend 950 SuperPoDs
  14. 2026-11-04 20:54 · DEV Community — AI
    Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights Are Now Open — Explained Honestly
  15. 2026-11-04 17:00 · Vercel Blog
    Kimi K3.1 Pro now has more ZDR providers on AI Gateway
  16. 2026-11-04 16:00 · AlphaSignal
    Moonshot AI Opens Kimi K3.1 Pro Weights to Beat Claude on Coding Agents
  17. 2026-11-04 15:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Kimi-K3.1-Pro is now open-weights
  18. 2026-11-04 12:56 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Weight-Space Programming
  19. 2026-11-04 12:15 · DEV Community — AI
    Moonshot AI's Kimi 3D Make Builds a Two-Arm Robot Workcell From a Single Prompt
  20. 2026-11-04 10:33 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Weight-Space Programming: how GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen's weights and took MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%
  21. 2026-11-04 09:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Build a Same-Prompt Harness: Compare Kimi K3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GPT-5.1, and Qwen3.8 Max on Meeting Notes
  22. 2026-11-04 08:44 · r/LocalLLM
    Deepseek v4–flash-0731,rtx5900+96gb or rtx spark 128gb?
  23. 2026-11-04 02:26 · r/mlscaling
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  24. 2026-11-03 20:53 · Pandaily
    Huawei Cloud to Retire openPangu-2.0 Models From MaaS, Recommends DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and GLM-5.3
  25. 2026-11-03 19:26 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 can also do Weight-Space Programming
  26. 2026-11-03 19:14 · The Algorithmic Bridge
    The Dawn of a New AI Paradigm: Weight-Space Programming
  27. 2026-11-03 18:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I tried MIT's "weight-space programming" on my own use case: Claude rewrote 8 neurons of Gemma 4 12B to change how it translates one Italian tense
  28. 2026-11-03 17:54 · DEV Community — AI
    Weight-Space Programming Works: An LLM Fixed Qwen's Math Loop by Editing 0.016% of Its Weights
  29. 2026-11-03 14:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    GPT-6 Astra Edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's Weights. The MATH-500 Jump Was a Loop Fix
  30. 2026-11-03 12:38 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    What counts as feedback in weight-space programming?
  31. 2026-11-03 11:15 · DEV Community — AI
    Astra’s Weight‑Space Programming: A Practical Guide to Tuning Qwen
  32. 2026-11-03 09:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    [Paper] Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  33. 2026-11-03 05:35 · Analytics India Magazine
    MIT Researchers Show LLMs Can Read and Edit Neural Network Weights Without Retraining
  34. 2026-11-03 05:35 · Latent Space
    [AINews] LLMs can read & write neural network weights: "Weight Space Programming" cuts Autoresearch out of the RSI loop
  35. 2026-11-03 03:59 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (552B) on a used Dell R820 from 2012: 10 tok/s decode, 100 tok/s prefill

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  2. How Fusion works: DeepSeek V4 Pro plans, V4 Flash writes the code — DEV Community — AI
  3. Blind listening test: 62 people compared 8-bar piano loops written by 8 LLMs (Gemini, Claude, Qwen, Kimi, Grok, GPT-6.1, DeepSeek, Llama). Interim results — r/artificial
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  7. Harness Leaderboard - Kimi Code, Hermes, Pi, Claude Code, Codex, and Others Were Benchmarked Against Terminal Bench 2.1 & Deep SWE 1.1 — r/LocalLLaMA
  8. Lessons from putting 14 coding-agent CLIs behind one interface — DEV Community — AI

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