DeepSeek V4.1-Flash seeds resist 4.3B-seed search; Huawei chip shift rumored
TheNormanMu · x · 2026-11-13
An update from Will Depon's reproduction investigation: the seeds behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (released September) remain uncracked. Hundreds of untouched weight rows still exist, but a search of 4.3 billion seeds across every GPU layout from 16 to 512 processors on stock PyTorch — plus all CPU generator seeds — found no match, suggesting DeepSeek changed its setup.
TheNormanMu quotes the report to suggest "DeepSeek moving to Huawei might be legit," implying a training infrastructure change — unconfirmed.
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