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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine behind its servers
What happened
DeepSeek released its in-house inference framework that powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, free and open source.
Why it matters to you
Running open models at scale just got cheaper for everyone.
Key number: runs on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 chips
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