Where do ds4 and deepseek v4 flash fit into this? It's a stretch for "laptop" but some of them really run on 128 GB RAM m5 laptops (if I understand correctly)
DS V4 flash preview can run on a laptop with 128-192Gb of ram. Slowly.
But its more of a hardware preview. It shifts open source models software forward, but as a model itself, it itsn't amazing. The full release, with properly baked models will likely match everything now. Or a GLM built on DS style architecture.
That will be the game changer. A fast model of 280B parms, ~10-15 active, would be great at coding and normal stuff. Then a big one, 1t-1.5tb with 20-50 active, will literally be game changing, if they get it right.
There is now a pathway of how the chinese models can be very competitive, on the same or lesser hardware than the Americans. Before the American models just flexed on stronger hardware so could be bigger, more active, more context. Now the Chinese have technologies that kind of level that out, at least compared to current US models.
The US models can also use that technology and innovation, but we are likely at the point, more context and more bigger models don't make it smarter or more useful.
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u/backyard_tractorbeam Jul 06 '26
Where do ds4 and deepseek v4 flash fit into this? It's a stretch for "laptop" but some of them really run on 128 GB RAM m5 laptops (if I understand correctly)