DeepSeek V4 Flash awaits GGUFs

Hot take: the absence of “name brand” GGUFs is less a mystery than a timing and tooling gap. DeepSeek V4 Flash just landed, and the model’s FP4/FP8 mixed-precision MoE setup plus huge context window make it more of a conversion-and-runtime challenge than a quick community re-quant.

• –DeepSeek’s own docs say V4 Flash is a preview release with 284B total params, 13B active, and 1M context, so this is not a small or casual local-port target
• –The model card explicitly notes FP4 + FP8 mixed precision, which adds friction for straightforward llama.cpp/GGUF conversion workflows
• –An UnsLoth discussion thread is already asking for GGUFs and notes llama.cpp support is still not there yet, which explains the lag
• –There is at least one early community quantization repo already, so the real story is not “no one cares,” it’s “the first stable, trusted quants haven’t crystallized yet”
• –For local runners, the practical constraint is memory and runtime compatibility, not just availability of files