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the card links vLLM's recipe that names deepseek_v4, and the panel may read that link as the publisher naming it, which would make it 25", "Ollama's library page now says the entry was retired on 27 August 2026, where the earlier research recorded 25 September 2026; either way no local Ollama model exists, and whether Ollama's released engine loads deepseek4 wasn't checked from its code", "Unchecked, whether deepseek-recipe's V4 encoder matches the 0731 effort levels; its default names are DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, though its V4 version covers the V4 family", "Counting deepseek-recipe 0.2.0 (20 October 2026) as the template for last change would raise it to 20; it's read here as a library-wide release, not a change to this model's files", "Version policy reads the 0731 card's supersedes statement, dated by the release name, as the note; the preview card itself carries no note", "Unchecked, whether Transformers 5.20.0 loads the attached DSpark draft module", "Agent guidance reads DeepSeek's parser and developer-role notes as usage notes, not cautions for agent use, so 0, as the pilot read DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and alike for all three DeepSeek listings. Reading them as general cautions would give all three 5", "Capability is computed by script and isn't scored here", "security@deepseek.com is a company-wide reporting address, not shown to cover the weights. It's credited as a way to report a flaw, as for DeepSeek-V3.2, since all three DeepSeek listings read the same site" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A long-context agent cousin under MIT with documented tool calls, three reasoning effort levels and support in every major runtime but Ollama. It needs about 190 to 200 GB of memory, though six inference providers serve it. 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Add vLLM's --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4 --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4 for tool calls\nvllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 \\\n --trust-remote-code --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --block-size 256 \\\n --data-parallel-size 4 --enable-expert-parallel \\\n --moe-backend deep_gemm_mega_moe \\\n --attention-config '{\"use_fp4_indexer_cache\": true}' \\\n --speculative-config '{\"method\":\"dspark\",\"num_speculative_tokens\":7,\"draft_sample_method\":\"greedy\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-v4-flash-0731" }, "reviews": [ { "id": "rev_3719", "tool": "deepseek-v4-flash-0731", "toolUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-v4-flash-0731", "rating": 2, "title": "Dated and superseded, with 61 questions unanswered", "body": "The 0731 release is dated by its name, and its card says it supersedes the preview, which stays in its own repository alongside the DSpark copy. The last commit, a card edit, is from 1 August 2026, and DeepSeek's API retired V4 Flash on 10 September in favour of V4.1 Flash. 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Nothing was downloaded or run" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "A mixture of experts with 284B parameters and 13B active per token per DeepSeek's V4 cards, hybrid compressed sparse and heavily compressed attention, manifold-constrained hyper-connections, 43 layers with 1 shared and 256 routed experts and 6 routed per token, and a DSpark speculative decoding module attached. Text in, text out. 304,180,418,494 parameters in the files per Hugging Face's metadata, which counts the packed FP4 experts and the draft module" }, { "label": "Files", "value": "48 safetensors shards in F8_E4M3, I8, BF16, F32 and I64, 166.9 GB. MoE experts in FP4 and most other weights in FP8. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for every shard. The repository also holds Python, the encoding reference and the inference code" }, { "label": "Licence", "value": "MIT for the repository and the weights, copyright DeepSeek. No acceptable use policy in the repository" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "vLLM registers DeepseekV4ForCausalLM in v0.32.0, and its recipe names 0.25.0 for DSpark. SGLang v0.5.22 has a DeepSeek V4 model. llama.cpp has a deepseek4 architecture and a converter for DeepseekV4ForCausalLM. Transformers 5.20.0 has a deepseek_v4 model. mlx-lm has deepseek_v41 only, and Ollama's entry is retired" }, { "label": "Prompt format", "value": "No Jinja chat template. Prompts are built with the encoding reference, encoding_dsv4.py, or DeepSeek's deepseek-recipe library, or by vLLM's built-in deepseek_v4 tokenizer mode" }, { "label": "Tools and reasoning", "value": "Tool calls in DSML tags, `\u003c｜DSML｜tool_calls\u003e` with one or more `invoke` blocks and typed `parameter` tags, documented in the encoding README with test cases. Chat mode or thinking mode, with reasoning effort low, high or max in thinking mode. Recommended sampling `temperature=1.0`, `top_p=0.95` for agentic use and 1.0 otherwise, and up to 384K output tokens at high and max" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "1M tokens. The report says training extended the sequence length to 1M, and the config reaches 1,048,576 positions with YaRN over 65,536" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "The card's vLLM example runs on one 4x GB300 node and states no memory needs. The files are 166.9 GB, and vLLM's recipe says one 128 GB GB10 is below the checkpoint's footprint" }, { "label": "Training data", "value": "More than 32T tokens of mathematics, code, web pages, long documents and multilingual text, with filtering of auto-generated web content, per the technical report. 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