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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Base
Model family: deepseek-v4
The MIT-licensed base checkpointA specific saved version of a model at a particular point in training. When a creator releases "Llama 3.1 8B Instruct," they're releasing a checkpoint — a frozen snapshot of the model as it existed at the end of training. Most models ship only a single public checkpoint; some creators release multiple (base, instruct, reasoning variants of the same underlying model). behind V4 Flash — the affordable starting point for domain-specific fine-tuning of the V4 architecture.
Identity
- Creator
- DeepSeek
- Model family
- deepseek-v4
- Release date
- 2026-04-23
Technical specs
- Parameter count
- 284B
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Modalities
- Text
- Primary capabilities
- Instruction Following
License
- License
- MIT License
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Terms
- Modification ✓
- Redistribution ✓
- Attribution ✓
Access
- Openness
- Open Weight
- Access methods
- Local Runtime Llama Cpp
- Local Runtime Vllm
- Weights Download Hf
- Cost tier
- Mixed
- llm
- open-weight
- commercial-friendly
- frontier
- base-model
- china-based
- self-hostable