DeepSeek-V4-Flash Crosses 1.04 Million Downloads on Hugging Face Eleven Days After Release
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, created July 31, has reached 1,048,685 downloads and 3,112 likes, putting it second on Hugging Face's trending board behind MiniMax-H3. For scale, Kimi-K3 — live since June 13 — sits at 1,565,484 downloads, so the Flash variant has covered two-thirds of that volume in under two weeks. The speed of the ramp suggests the small fast-inference tier is where open-weight adoption is actually compounding right now, not the frontier checkpoints.