DeepSeek V4 Flash drops with 284B parameters
DeepSeek releases V4 Flash, a 284B parameter MoE model that achieves high-speed reasoning with only 13B active parameters. Its novel architecture uses native FP4/FP8 mixed precision and "Hybrid Attention" to drastically reduce VRAM and KV cache requirements.
DeepSeek is redefining efficiency by proving that massive parameter counts don't require massive hardware if you're smart about compression and attention.
- –Native FP4/FP8 storage means the "unquantized" weights are already as small as typical 4-bit quants of other models
- –Hybrid Attention architecture reduces the KV cache memory footprint by 90% compared to previous generations
- –With only 13B active parameters, it offers GPT-4 class reasoning speeds on consumer-grade (multi-GPU) or Mac Studio hardware
- –The release of weights under MIT license continues DeepSeek's trend of disrupting the proprietary model landscape
- –"Think" modes allow developers to trade off latency for deeper reasoning depth depending on the task
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45d ago
2026-04-27
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45d ago
2026-04-26
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