Field Guide · Week of 17 August 2026
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · China · DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s smaller V4. MIT license. Quantized, it can live on a strong laptop or a single workstation GPU.
- Where it runs
- Runs on your computer
- Memory
- 32–64 GB (quantized)
- Size
- 284B MoE · 13B active
- License
- MIT
Why it is on this week’s list
The reasoning quality people talk about, in a size that is no longer only a cluster.
Use it when
32 GB+ and hard problems — code, math, long chains.
Skip it when
16 GB. This will swap and feel broken.
Published scores
Scores as of 17 August 2026. A blank test is not a zero. We just will not invent it.
- GPQA Diamond
- 88.1
- SWE-Bench Verified
- 79.0
- LiveCodeBench
- 91.6
- MMLU / MMLU-Pro
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- AIME
- —
- Humanity’s Last Exam
- 32.1
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