DeepSeek V4.1 Flash hands-on tests and comparisons

The post claims DeepSeek's inference-side hardware optimization lets a single GB300 rack, costing about $7M, serve OpenCode's 6-7T daily token usage, explaining free access on platforms.

The poster notes a new backend fingerprint change for deepseek-flash, recalling that an Oct 17 change preceded the V4.1 Flash 1017 release by hours, while cautioning it could just be a redeploy.

A tester found V4.1 Flash 1017's model fingerprint overlaps with GPT-6 Astra and it self-identifies as ChatGPT, splitting commenters between 'distillation confirmed' and 'the fingerprint DB has no DeepSeek entry'.

The poster expects a GSQ-RCO quantized build with Strata local support this Friday, but it needs roughly 200GB Engram plus nearly 200GB backbone, making 64GB RAM / 16GB VRAM setups struggle; DDR5 128GB+ is advised.

A user reads tibo's "We are cooked" as a reaction to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 pixel-level distilling Astra at 2% of its price, and expects GPT to add guardrails against distillation.

A Japanese post says model fingerprint matching suggests DeepSeek V4.1 Flash could be the same model as GPT-6 Astra, while noting fingerprints alone do not prove identity and more evidence is needed.

The poster suspects DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 was distilled from GPT-6-Astra, but says it is cheap and good enough that it doesn't matter.

A user asks why DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 can be so cheap if it really distilled GPT-6 Astra, speculating about the source of its low cost.

The author clarifies the fingerprint test only compares random-integer distributions over a closed candidate set with softmax normalization, so it says nothing about distillation and even varies day to day.

A Chinese post claims DeepSeek released a 763B-parameter Flash model generating around 200 tokens per second, while noting how fast model releases now come.

A Japanese post points to the origin of the urban legend that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 distilled GPT-6 Astra, noting ~84% output similarity while joking it's coincidence.

A Portuguese-language post asks whether it would be a problem if the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash upgrade were distilled from Astra.