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Probing the unreleased DeepSeek Flash V4.1

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So it's unofficially official.. DeepSeek Flash V4.1 is currently accessible on their api. Had some fun probing it.. results below. The exact model name is deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910 Setup: plain POST https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions , no special headers. HTTP 200. Key works. It's…

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Timeline · 26 reports

  1. 2026-09-11 16:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: How a Causal Encoder-Decoder Architecture Cuts Agent Memory Costs by 75%
  2. 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
  3. 2026-09-11 03:09 · Pandaily
    Cambricon Day-0 Adapts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on vLLM Stack
  4. 2026-09-10 23:45 · SiliconANGLE AI
    DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, says it outperforms flagship V4-Pro
  5. 2026-09-10 20:00 · r/LocalLLaMA
    CPU Only Experimental Sloppy Deepseek V4.1 Flash
  6. 2026-09-10 19:45 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Livebench added Deepseek v4.1 flash
  7. 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.
  8. 2026-09-10 16:05 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is available in HuggingChat
  9. 2026-09-10 16:05 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is available in HuggingChat
  10. 2026-09-10 11:23 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Deepseek V4.1 Flash Release Video [Made with Deepseek V4.1 Flash]
  11. 2026-09-10 10:01 · r/LocalLLaMA
    guide to using reasoning_effort on deepseek v4.1 flash
  12. 2026-09-10 08:37 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash surprised ....
  13. 2026-09-10 08:27 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Deepseek V4.1 Flash is 748B, not 552B
  14. 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
  15. 2026-09-10 07:56 · r/Bard
    DeepSeek just dropped V4.1 Flash, anyone tried it?
  16. 2026-09-10 07:44 · TechNode
    DeepSeek releases Harness 0.1.5 with V4.1 Flash support, file uploads and sidebar previews
  17. 2026-09-10 07:31 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in 3 charts: vs its predecessor, a top open-weight rival, and Claude Opus 5
  18. 2026-09-10 07:02 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash!
  19. 2026-09-10 07:00 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Deepseek v4.1 flash finally has engrams, what do you expect from 4.1 pro?
  20. 2026-09-10 06:54 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4-1 Flash is out
  21. 2026-09-10 06:48 · r/singularity
    DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Benchmarks
  22. 2026-09-10 06:27 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Stronger, Faster, More Accessible
  23. 2026-09-10 06:08 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is out
  24. 2026-09-10 04:13 · r/LocalLLM
    Deepseek V4 Flash 0731
  25. 2026-09-10 00:00 · TLDR AI
    DeepSeek Flash v4.1 🤖, Siri AI 📱, Anthropic AI economics 📈
  26. 2026-09-08 17:17 · r/LocalLLM
    Probing the unreleased DeepSeek Flash V4.1

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