DeepSeek Details V4.1 Flash Inference Deployment: Engineering, Not Magic
DeepSeek open-sourced deployment docs for V4.1 Flash, revealing that its inference efficiency comes from engineering choices like Engram's 30% parameter reduction and WideEP weight amortization, plus cross-datacenter prefill/decode separation enabled by compressed KV cache.
2026-10-21 ~ 2026-10-21 · 2 related posts
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