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Xolotl (Strata based) - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (552B) on a single 4090 at ~27 tok/s, Uncensored 1017 quant coming in a couple of days

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Hey all, been meaning to post this for a while. I've been building an inference engine based off Strata called Xolotl that runs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, all 552B of it, on one gaming PC. My setup is a single RTX 4090 (24GB), a Ryzen 7 5700X, 90GB of DDR4 and an NVMe drive, nothing fancy. The weights ge…

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Timeline · 21 reports

  1. 2026-10-20 17:04 · Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
    Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China
  2. 2026-10-20 13:32 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (UD-Q4_K_XL) on 4x 3090 + EPYC: 12 → 25 tok/s prose, 39 tok/s code.
  3. 2026-10-20 10:59 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Vals AI found DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats GPT 6 Sol on their multi-step offensive cybersecurity task. Sol was tested via the Daybreak trusted access program.
  4. 2026-10-20 09:08 · AlphaSignal
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Beats GPT-6 Sol in a Simulated Cyber Attack
  5. 2026-10-19 20:20 · r/LocalLLM
    GitHub - vincalkr/DS41Engine: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash GSQ on a single RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100, ROCm/HIP): the v41 engine, the optimizations with their measured numbers, and the docs
  6. 2026-10-19 16:08 · r/LocalLLM
    Run DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Locally Guide
  7. 2026-10-19 11:43 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at 2.61 bpw + Engram: 26 t/s on dual RTX 3090s with dsx
  8. 2026-10-19 08:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Can DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 really run on 12GB VRAM + 64GB RAM?
  9. 2026-10-19 06:41 · TechNode
    DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash-1017 with stronger coding and agent capabilities
  10. 2026-10-19 05:56 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on AA & Vals index
  11. 2026-10-19 01:11 · r/LocalLLM
    Xolotl (Strata) + the new DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 — a 153 GiB quant for everyone
  12. 2026-10-18 23:24 · r/singularity
    Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
  13. 2026-10-18 22:34 · SiliconANGLE AI
    DeepSeek releases updated V4.1-Flash model it says completes tasks faster
  14. 2026-10-18 14:51 · r/LocalLLaMA
    unsloth/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GGUF · Hugging Face
  15. 2026-10-18 10:22 · r/LocalLLM
    MINISFORUM MS-S1 MAX P495 (192GB) Review and Weekend Test: llama.cpp Vulkan benchmarks: gpt-oss 120B, MiniMax M2.7, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Flash-Next, Qwen3.5 35B, Qwen3.8 27B (+ MTP)
  16. 2026-10-18 04:13 · r/huggingface
    DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 for Dwarfstar (ds4)
  17. 2026-10-18 04:12 · r/LocalLLM
    DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 for Dwarfstar (ds4)
  18. 2026-10-18 04:12 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 for Dwarfstar (ds4)
  19. 2026-10-18 02:04 · r/LocalLLaMA
    The whale girl mode in DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is still there.
  20. 2026-10-17 21:41 · r/LocalLLM
    Xolotl (Strata based) - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (552B) on a single 4090 at ~27 tok/s, Uncensored 1017 quant coming in a couple of days
  21. 2026-10-17 21:40 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Xolotl (Strata based) - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (552B) on a single 4090 at ~27 tok/s, Uncensored 1017 quant coming in a couple of days

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