Lead · Infra · NVIDIA · 30 October 2026
NVIDIA compresses DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash model for Blackwell: about 400 GiB instead of 475
NVIDIA published an NVFP4 version of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: about 400 GiB instead of the source's roughly 475. The card lists only Blackwell and needs a vLLM build with a patch that stock images lack.
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The lighter version still weighs about 400 GiB.
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