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DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Launches on API; Flash Runs on Low-RAM Laptops

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DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on its API, scoring near Opus-4.8 on multimodal tasks at flash pricing. Separately, a developer ran the 284B-parameter V4-Flash from 3.2GB RAM by streaming weights off NVMe in C99.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-08-22 06:05 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    AI news digest — Aug 22: DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp scores near Opus-4.8 at flash pricing, Claude Security moves to Mythos 5 + $35M defender fund
  2. 2026-08-21 15:13 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is now live on the DeepSeek API Platform!
  3. 2026-08-21 13:57 · r/LocalLLM
    I ran DeepSeek-V4-Flash (284B params, 160GB checkpoint) from 3.2GB of RAM — streaming weights off NVMe in plain C99

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