id: deepseek-ai__DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731__strategic
status: collecting
name: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
org: deepseek-ai
source:
  kind: huggingface
  url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
  revision: 7872f01b1d1fe23eabc4c98b48bffcef5a386062
  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
  project_url: https://www.deepseek.com/
  paper_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19348
license:
  spdx: MIT
  url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
  allows_offline_retention: true
  allows_local_ops: true
  allows_fine_tune: true
  notes: "Official card: repository and weights MIT. Confirm at pin."
profile:
  summary: "S-tier open MIT MoE — 284B base / ~13B active (304B with DSpark); not a 12B dense model."
  original_source: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
  use_cases:
    - "Primary open-weight agentic / coding identity after Jul 2026"
    - "Offline optionality if DeepSeek API access changes"
    - "Future multi-GPU serve (vLLM DSpark / SGLang); not current R-spine"
    - "Capability bar for daily briefs against closed frontier"
  sweet_spots:
    - "Best MIT-licensed open near-frontier that actually fits cheap Glacier (~167 GiB HF tree)"
    - "Fits the €15/month Scaleway budget with room for K3"
    - "Displaces DeepSeek-V3 as the collectable S1 identity"
  not_ideal_for:
    - "Current single-consumer-GPU daily ops (use R spine / Qwen3.8-27B)"
    - "Treating 'Flash' as a 12B dense model (that reading was an executor error)"
  capability_notes: >
    Official V4-Flash release (2026-07-31). Same structure as
    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark (speculative decoding module attached).
    HF card reports 304B params (284B base + draft). ~13B active.
    1M context. Terminal Bench 2.1 82.7. HF tree listed ~167 GB.
    Automated briefs 2026-08-04…14 repeatedly called this a 12B dense
    consumer-GPU model and once claimed it was already collected. It
    was not. Size class is S, not R.
swot:
  strengths:
    - "MIT, official org, actually downloadable"
    - "Near-frontier agentic scores at ~13B active"
    - "Footprint (~167 GiB) is cheap on Glacier and was always inside the old 850 GiB quota"
  weaknesses:
    - "Serve needs multi-GPU / high unified memory, not T1–T2"
    - "Executor hallucinated it as 12B for two weeks — catalog must stay the authority"
  opportunities:
    - "First S pull onto Scaleway (FI-WP-0004-T09)"
    - "Compressed / GGUF community packs exist if we want a later R experiment (not a substitute for the official tree)"
  threats:
    - "Successor V4.x could land while we still have no object on disk"
    - "Quota-era deferral already cost a month of optionality"
size:
  total_bytes: 166898547054
  total_human: "166.9 GB / 155.4 GiB; 67 selected files at pinned commit, HF metadata 2026-09-14"
hardware_class:
  min_vram_gb_q4: 0
  min_vram_gb_fp16: 0
  notes: "Beyond current lab run envelope (T3–T4). Community 2-bit reports exist for 128 GB unified memory; not an R-spine claim."
axes: [A, B, D]
priority: high
collection:
  approved_by: "grok"
  approved_at: "2026-09-13"
  downloaded_at: null
  downloaded_by: ""
  storage_path: ""
  brief_refs:
    - briefs/2026/08/2026-08-03.md
    - briefs/2026/09/2026-09-13.md
    - docs/decisions/2026-09-13-scaleway-object-reserve.md
reason: "S1 collectable — strongest MIT open MoE that fits the Scaleway euro budget; first pull after bucket create."
tags: [tier-s, strategic, moe, mit, beyond-run-envelope]
companions: []
notes: >
  Do not confuse with a 12B dense checkpoint. There is no
  deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-12B. Pull the official card repo.
  Storage class at upload: strategic/ → Glacier.
history:
  - at: "2026-08-03"
    event: nominated
    by: grok
    detail: "Catch-up brief named V4-Flash-0731 as mid-tier open value leader."
  - at: "2026-08-04"
    event: misidentified
    by: rein-aharness
    detail: "Automated briefs treated it as 12B dense; never cataloged; 08-07 claimed on-disk collection that did not happen."
  - at: "2026-09-13"
    event: approved
    by: grok
    detail: "Corrected to 304B-class MoE ~167 GiB MIT. Approved for Scaleway Glacier once FI-WP-0004-T08 bucket exists."
  - at: "2026-09-13"
    event: collecting
    by: grok
    detail: "T08 bucket live. snapshot_download + Glacier upload started on workstation staging /home/worsch/vault/freedom-intelligence."
  - at: "2026-09-14"
    event: collecting
    by: codex
    detail: "Replaced WSL snapshot staging with diskless Railiance service fi-reserve-collect. 64 MiB parts, 512 MiB memory cap, no swap. Source pinned to 7872f01b1d1fe23eabc4c98b48bffcef5a386062; 67 selected files / 166898547054 bytes. Destination strategic/deepseek-ai__DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731/<commit>/. Complete manifest pending; not collected or restore-verified."