DeepSeek V4 Flash local benchmark nearly matches top frontier models from 5 months ago
joorklee · reddit · 2026-08-01
A user points out that the newly open-sourced DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 achieves an intelligence index score of 50, nearly matching the peak score of 51 set by frontier models in March 2026.
This implies that for under $8,000 in hardware (e.g., 128GB DDR4 RAM paired with 4x 5060 Ti GPUs), one can now run an AI locally with the intelligence level of a top-tier model from just a few months ago. The author found the pace of progress insane and impulsively bought the hardware to run it.
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