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… What DeepSeek R1 Distill actually is And it confused me at first DeepSeek built its reputation on R1, a reasoning model trained mostly through reinforcement learning instead of the supervised-heavy approach most labs still lean on, and it landed near OpenAI's o1 on math and coding benchmarks, which… …
… I knew it was capable, but I didn’t expect it to pull this far ahead of Qwen and DeepSeek. Most of the community discussion revolves around DeepSeek and Qwen. …
… And ds4 tries to make use of DeepSeek V4's unique architecture as much as possible in order to get it running on machines with 128 GB of VRAM. ds4 only knows how to run one model family It's for DeepSeek V4, and DeepSeek V4 only Most local inference runs through Ollama or llama.cpp, as both are bui… …
… DeepSeek also used distillation extensively across its R1-Distill family. The full DeepSeek-R1 has 671 billion total parameters, with 37 billion active per token. …
… DeepSeek published a separate checkpoint called DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark with dedicated speculative decoding layers baked in, and it runs on a different container image that fixes a warmup bug the stock vLLM build has on GB10 hardware. …
… DeepSeek V4 Flash is the model that makes OpenCode Go a great deal It borders on free OpenCode Go gives you an API key with access to 18 models that you can use in any coding harness not just OpenCode , but the most important model, by far, is DeepSeek V4 Flash. …
… Everything felt a little heavier compared to using deepseek-r1:14b. …
… DeepSeek is going the other way A price cut it can actually afford While the Western labs nudge prices up, DeepSeek has spent 2026 doing the reverse. …
… Performance improves year on year, but the architecture of what's actually running is similar to the shape it was when DeepSeek R1 arrived. …
… However, I wanted to see how far I could push it, so I transferred the bulky DeepSeek R1 specifically, DeepSeek R1-Distill-Qwen-7B from my main PC to the N100-powered LXC, and ran ./llama-server -m "/root/llama.cpp/models/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-Q4 K M.gguf" --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8082 . …