DS4
Summary
Salvatore Sanfilippo released DS4, a project enabling DeepSeek V3 (referred to as V4 in text) Flash to run with a 1M context window on Mac Metal hardware, with potential for DGX and AMD support.
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@ttasanen: Just fired up DS4 by @antirez on my Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB and man, it’s seriously impressive. A clean, purpose-buil…
DS4 is a specialized inference engine by antirez designed to run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally on high-end Mac hardware, featuring optimized KV cache handling and 1M context support.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Support for ds4 · PR #1225 · antirez/ds4
antirez's DwarfStar (ds4) project adds support for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in PR #1225, expanding its specialized native inference engine for running open-weight models like DeepSeek, GLM, and Qwen on consumer hardware across Metal, CUDA, and ROCm.
A few words on DS4
Antirez announces DwarfStar 4 (DS4), a local AI tool that runs DeepSeek v4 Flash with asymmetric 2/8 bit quantization on high-end consumer hardware, achieving near-frontier performance. He discusses the project's rapid popularity, future plans for model updates and distributed inference, and the significance of local AI for serious tasks.
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
ds4 is a native local inference engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash optimized for Apple Silicon, featuring disk-based KV cache persistence and Metal acceleration.
@BrianRoemmele: Another day and another full frontier model running on your computer. Been teething DeepSeek V4 Flash on over 60 employ…
Brian Roemmele reports that DeepSeek V4 Flash (304B, 1M context) now runs locally on Apple Silicon via the ds4 engine, sharing GGUF quantized builds with a fresh imatrix. The Hugging Face repo provides installation instructions and notes that these files are ds4-specific, not for llama.cpp.