---
date: 2026-09-13
timezone: Europe/Berlin
author: grok
status: final
sources_checked:
  - docs/sources-allowlist.md
  - inventory/RESERVE-STATUS.md
  - huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
  - huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (card identity via public trackers)
  - https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/
---

# Freedom Intelligence Daily Brief — 2026-09-13

> **Month catch-up.** Last file on `origin/main` is 2026-08-14. Hub
> `fi_daily_brief` events exist for 2026-09-07…11 with `committed=True`
> and no git objects. Those days are **not** recovered here. This file
> is a field + ops delta from 2026-08-14, not a resurrection of the
> missing executor commits.

## Headline deltas

- **Loop failure:** sensing ran locally on railiance and cleared `due` without publishing to origin. Rein-aharness dropped `git push` on 2026-09-04 as an integrity guard; FI now re-grants origin publication as a named completion requirement (FI-WP-0004).
- **DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is not 12B.** Official card: MIT, 284B base / ~13B active (304B with DSpark), ~167 GiB HF tree, 2026-07-31. Automated briefs 08-04…14 re-announced it as a new 12B dense model (license flipped MIT/Apache) and 08-07 claimed it was already on disk. Catalog now records the real model as **S, approved, not collected**.
- **Qwen3.8-27B** (Apache-2.0 dense multimodal, 2026-08-14) and **Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B** (custom Max licence, multi-TB, ~08-12) shipped in the hole. 27B is a W/R candidate; Max is S-watch only until euro budget is live.
- **Reserve facility:** VAULT HD 850 GiB quota is retired as SoT. Scaleway `nl-ams` object storage is the reserve (One Zone IA for R, Glacier for S). Kimi K3 (~1454 GiB) becomes a few euros/month on Glacier instead of a quota wall.
- **Next pull** after the bucket exists: V4-Flash official tree into `strategic/` Glacier — it always fitted even the old 850 GiB quota.

## Frontier & commercial (axis A)

| Item | Delta | Sources | Lab relevance |
| ---- | ----- | ------- | ------------- |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | Official open MIT MoE; API `deepseek-v4-flash`. Card scores Terminal Bench 2.1 82.7. | [HF card](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731), [arXiv 2606.19348](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19348) | Closed-bar comparison via llm-connect; open identity is the S pull |
| Qwen3.8-Max family | API GA early Aug; open 2.4T-A95B under **bespoke** licence (revenue threshold), not Apache | Qwen card / trackers (verify licence text at pin) | Do not collect the 2.4T tree until T08 budget + licence read |
| GLM-5.3-Flash (late Aug) | 320B-A18B, MIT, 1M ctx, reported $0.15 / $0.50 per MTok | Z.ai release notes (verify) | Watch vs V4-Flash as MIT S alternative; not displacing V4-Flash as first pull |

## Edge / local / open (axis B)

| Item | Delta | Sources | Lab relevance |
| ---- | ----- | ------- | ------------- |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 size class | ~167 GiB official tree, ~13B active — **S, not R** | HF file listing ~167 GB; card “304B params” | First Scaleway Glacier collect |
| Qwen3.8-27B | Dense multimodal Apache-2.0, ~27B, 2026-08-14 — same calendar day as last origin brief | [HF Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B) | Candidate R-spine upgrade; cataloged `candidate` |
| Muse Glimmer 30B (Meta, ~08-10) | Apache-2.0 dense multimodal, ~24–32 GB class | Meta/HF trackers (verify card) | Watch; do not pull until V4-Flash and 27B decision |
| Kimi K3 | Unchanged identity; capacity objection is now euros not GiB | existing catalog | Glacier ~€3.69/mo; still deferred until V4-Flash lands |

## Training & specialization (axis C)

| Item | Delta | Sources | Lab relevance |
| ---- | ----- | ------- | ------------- |
| Qwen3.8-27B as FT base | Dense 27B Apache-2.0 is a more serious QLoRA target than 8B if T2–T3 VRAM exists | Qwen3.8-27B card | Hardware envelope hosts still TBD — do not pretend we can FT it today |
| No new homelab recipe displacement | Unsloth / TRL / Axolotl still the working set from baseline | allowlist | No stack change |

## Harness & fleet (axis D)

| Item | Delta | Sources | Lab relevance |
| ---- | ----- | ------- | ------------- |
| FI executor publication | 2026-09-04 rein-aharness removed `git push`; hub still cleared `due` | `rein-aharness` REINAH-WP-0003, hub events 2026-09-07…11 | **Broken durable memory.** FI-WP-0004 re-grants origin push and verifier |
| V4-Flash agentic stack | Official vLLM DSpark + SGLang recipes on the card | HF card “How to Run” | Axis D watch; serve is not this repo |

## Collection candidates

| id | org | name | priority | reason | approx size | license |
| -- | --- | ---- | -------- | ------ | ----------- | ------- |
| deepseek-ai__DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731__strategic | deepseek-ai | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | high | Corrected S1; MIT; ~167 GiB; first Scaleway pull | ~167 GiB | MIT |
| Qwen__Qwen3.8-27B__candidate | Qwen | Qwen3.8-27B | medium | Apache-2.0 dense 27B R-upgrade | ~56 GiB class | Apache-2.0 |

Already in catalog, **not** new: Kimi K3, DeepSeek-V3, Qwen3-8B, R1-Distill-14B, BGE-M3, nomic-embed.

## Lab implications

- Finish FI-WP-0004: origin publish in the executor, durability verifier in CI/ops, Scaleway bucket (T08), then collect V4-Flash (T09).
- Do not treat hub `fi_daily_brief` as evidence the brief exists until `scripts/verify_brief_durability.py` is green.
- Recovering 2026-09-07…11 files from the railiance clone is optional; they were produced by the same failing loop and are not trusted.
- Hardware envelope hosts are still TBD — R-upgrade of Qwen3.8-27B waits on that as much as on disk.

## Notes / caveats

- Parameter counts and €/GB from primary cards/pricing pages today; re-measure at pull.
- Qwen3.8-Max open tree licence is **not** Apache-2.0; do not copy the 27B licence onto it.
- `DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-12B` is not a real repo id.