DeepSeek V4.1 Flash multimodal: 45T image-text tokens and modality-level load balancing
nrehiew_ · x · 2026-09-11
nrehiew covers the first architectural difference of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — multimodality:
- Pretrained on 45T image-text tokens
- Custom image encoder
- Load balancing at the modality level
The last point echoes the original Chameleon paper: tokens from different modalities may compete and interfere with each other.
Related event: Leaked DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Tech Report Reveals KV Cache-Obsessed Flagship(44 posts)→
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