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antirez Releases DwarfStar for Local Lossless DeepSeek
Redis creator antirez released GGUF quantized files for DeepSeek V4 Flash, followed by a new DwarfStar branch enabling lossless local execution of the model on Mac.
2026-08-01 ~ 2026-08-02 · 2 episodes · 5 posts
Episode 1 · antirez Releases Multiple GGUF Quantizations for DeepSeek V4 Flash (2026-08-01, 2 posts)
Redis creator antirez has uploaded new GGUF quantized weights for DeepSeek V4 Flash on Hugging Face. The release includes multiple versions ranging from 2-bit to 4-bit quantization, offering flexible options for running the model.
- antirez releases DeepSeek V4 Flash GGUF quantizations, from 2-bit to 4-bit, for local deployment — antirez · 2026-08-01
- antirez Stealthily Uploads New DeepSeek-V4 Quantized Weights — challis88ocarina · 2026-08-01
Episode 2 · antirez's DwarfStar Enables Local Lossless DeepSeek Inference (2026-08-01, 3 posts)
Developer antirez announced that his open-source project DwarfStar now supports running lossless MXFP4 DeepSeek v4 Flash locally on Mac hardware, achieving about 31 tokens/s on M3 Ultra. He confirmed that this MXFP4 branch will be merged soon.
- antirez Enables Lossless MXFP4 Local Inference for DeepSeek v4 Flash — antirez · 2026-08-01
- DwarfStar Runs Lossless MXFP4 DeepSeek Locally on M3 Ultra — antirez · 2026-08-01
- antirez to merge MXFP4 branch; DeepSeek v4 runs smoothly on M2 Ultra — antirez · 2026-08-02