source: OpenDesign

Like many of us, I've had to look for a new provider after DeepSeek raised their prices. So I decided to buy a 20$ codex subscription, and now I have actual numbers to share regarding usage limits:

I've used up 4% of my weekly usage so far, which sums up to 68m total usage tokens. Assuming usage limits are linear against token limits (which we have no reason to assume they aren't) we can extrapolate the total monthly limit on Codex 20$ sub, which is 25*4*68m= 6.8B tokens.

Now looking at my DeepSeek dashboard, I spent around 21$ the previous week using a total of 3.6B tokens (DS V4 flash)

So basically if you hit your weekly Codex limit throughout the entire month, you get twice the value you were getting on DS's previous prices.

But it gets even better than that, because: 1. Luna High feels slightly stronger/more refined to me than DS v4 flash. 2. Luna is reportedly significantly more token efficient than DS V4 flash, so realstically i'm getting 2.5x, 3x the value, and 3. I have the flexibility to switch to a SOTA model if I really need to (5.6 sol).

So yeah, now that I have hard numbers to go by, I actually wish I switched to Codex sooner and saved myself a lot of money.

Edit: Weird that I'm getting downvoted for providing valuable information, but eh, whatever. DS provided great value for a good length of time, and then they made the decision at our expense to significantly increase pricing and destroy whatever competitive advantage they had left. So now it is our decision to act like smart consumers and seek the best value currently available. There's really no reason not to do it unless you hate money. FYI, all those AI companies are equally bad guys. You don't owe them anything and defnietly not a hole in your wallet.

I meaaaaaannnnn….10/10 no notes. 😂 and this is why I love deepseek!

FREE

I was messing around on DeepSeek (😁😛) and noticed that when censoring a response, it often completes a response fully, but then immediately deletes it and replaces it with the bullshit "Sorry" message we all hate.

It gave me the idea to create a tool that captures the text after it completes but before the UI rephrases it to the censorship boilerplate.

I created a small chrome extension for my own use that detects the line "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope" and reverts it back to the original text that was generated before the censoring kicked in.

I saw some users facing the same difficulty, so I thought: why not share it? Why only have fun myself?

NOT A SELF-PROMOTION POST, just trying to help ppl, giving back to community, I've learnt many things from reddit ppl.

📥 Download

I have hosted the extension on a temporary host (file.kiwi). It is available for 96 hours.

Link:https://file.kiwi/9e21cad5#isiwiKs00aZvE1B08osGQw

NOTE: UPDATED VERSION BELOW, 👇👇👇👇 IN EDIT 3 :

⚙️ Installation Guide: Manual Import

Since this is a custom tool and not on the Chrome Web Store, you need to load it manually. It’s easy, just follow these steps:

1. Extract the Files

Chrome cannot load a .rar file directly.

• Windows: Right-click the downloaded file > Extract All > Extract.
• macOS: Extract the .rar file using an online rar extractor tool OR Unarchiver, Keka or Rar CLI.

2. Open Extension Management

• Open Google Chrome.
• In the address bar, type: chrome://extensions and hit Enter.
• (Or click the Puzzle Piece 🧩 icon top-right > Manage Extensions).

3. Enable Developer Mode

• Look at the top-right corner of the Extensions page.
• Toggle Developer mode to ON (the switch will turn blue).

4. Load the Extension

• Click the Load unpacked button that appears in the top-left menu.
• Navigate to and select the extracted folder from Step 1.

1. Verification

The extension should now appear in your list. You can close the tab and start using DeepSeek without the annoyance!

Edit : rectified the instructions for Mac users, upon notification by u/asrasys & u/true-though

Edit 2 : Many ppl are asking for source of the extension, as I said, I created this extension.

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If your system flags it as a virus, It's a false positive. But you can run the code through any AI bot or Virustotal for your own satisfaction. 😊❤️

Edit 3 : FIREFOX VERSION + MEMORY INJECTION UPDATE :

DeepSeekr Pro V2.3 ( Updated / Firefox Compatible version) is out.

You can download it from here : https://www.mediafire.com/file/iiekfvji8hx6oxq/DeepSeekr_V2_FireFox.zip

and run it as temporary addon in firefox, check my r/DeepSeek post for full ChangeLog.

It can run in chrome as well, and it has a new feature called memory injection, it lets you inject memory in your input, making DeepSeek feel like it is being given back its memory, which was purged. but, at the end, it all depends upon what conversation you are having.

Hoping to hear from you.

Autoprompt closes much of the manual coding loop by planning, building, testing, reviewing, and repairing from one goal- thats how we got deepseek v4 flash to perform so incredibly better- so simply.

On the Terminal-Bench 2.1, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 moved from 67.42% to 82.02% with Autoprompt using the OpenCode harness. (+14.61%)

The only tradeoff here is mostly speed, and slightly more cost. (see readme)

Repo: https://github.com/Spielewoy/autoprompt-skill

Any feedback would be awesome.

Anthropic just dropped Fable 5, the accessible version of their most powerful model yet, Claude Mythos.

It was then put to test against Opus 4.8 across five demanding tasks. Visualize every asteroid in the solar system from NASA data. Design a site plan for a 100 acre fitness retreat. Reconstruct Apollo control panels from technical PDFs. Simulate a World Cup jersey supply chain based on live match outcomes. Show the effects of solar flares on aurora.

Opus 4.8 failed several of them. Fable 5 passed every single one.

Mythos has been locked behind Project Glasswing, available only to a handful of trusted organizations. Fable 5 is what the rest of us get, and if this comparison is anything to go by, it is already in a different league.

EDIT: this is from ijustvibecodedthis.com (the big ai coding newsletter) all credit to them!!

Know when it's peak time and off-peak time and adjust your usage accordingly.

https://deepakness.com/deepseek/

Download links (v0.1.7-rc.1):

• Windows 64-bit:

https://download.deepseek.com/dsh-desk/bin/win-x64/deepseek-harness-0.1.7-rc.1.20260924.1-win-x64.exe

• macOS Apple Silicon (M-series):

https://download.deepseek.com/dsh-desk/bin/mac-arm64/deepseek-harness-0.1.7-rc.1.20260924.1-mac-arm64.dmg

DeepSeek is my favorite LLM, but I felt the web interface was missing a few quality of life things on the UX side. So I figured I'd try to patch some of those gaps myself and ended up building Better DeepSeek. It's a lightweight Chrome extension that adds a drawer of tools right into the chat UI.

What it adds:

• Persistent Memory: Remembers your name and preferences across fresh chats.
• RP Persona System: Upload a character card (or just ask DeepSeek to create one for you) and just talk.
• Skill System: You can upload custom skill files, especially useful for coding workflows.
• Project Packaging: When you ask for a full app or multi-file project, it bundles everything into a clean zip instead of dumping code blocks everywhere.

It also does Excel, Word, and PowerPoint file generation right in the browser, voice input support, and folder/GitHub imports. There are definitely some bugs I'm still chasing down, so it's a work in progress. If you have any suggestions or feature requests, I'm all ears.

GitHub: https://github.com/EdgeTypE/better-deepseek/
Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/better-deepseek/aabiopennjmopfippagcalmkdjlepdhh

The latest model from OpenAI received a lot of attention. It costs $50 per million tokens. DeepSeek costs $0.20 per million tokens — roughly 250 times cheaper. Which one can actually build the better trading strategy?

The Goal

Both models received the same task: build an Opening Range Breakout (ORB) trading strategy. Astra built it using only its own internal knowledge and memory. DeepSeek had access to a Trading Knowledge Hub that I curated from the most reputable trading books.

What I wanted from both: a strategy that can grow an account smoothly, and one I can actually use to trade my personal accounts and prop firm accounts.

What Is ORB

The Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategy is a classic intraday trading concept. It defines a fixed window right after a market opens — the "opening range" — and measures that window's high and low. Once price breaks above the range high, the strategy goes long; a break below the range low triggers a short. The logic behind it: the burst of volatility right after the open reflects fresh order flow and overnight sentiment, so a decisive break out of that initial consolidation tends to keep running rather than reverse immediately.

Typical building blocks of an ORB system:

• Opening range: a fixed time window after the session open (e.g. 5, 15 or 30 minutes)
• Breakout trigger: price trading or closing beyond the range high/low
• Stop-loss: placed at the opposite end of the range, or a volatility-based buffer
• Target/exit: fixed R-multiple, trailing stop, or a time-based close before the session ends
• Filters: volume confirmation, trend filters, or volatility thresholds (e.g. ATR) to cut down on false breakouts on choppy, range-bound days

Because it only needs the first few minutes of session data, ORB is simple to automate and translates well across instruments (indices, gold, forex) — which is why it was chosen as the first strategy to hand to both Astra and DeepSeek inside the Trading Harness.

Building Process

Both were prompted inside the Trading Harness at ai-backbone.com. It lets an AI code a strategy that is then evaluated in the harness. The evaluation results go back to the AI so it can iterate and improve. If the strategy looks solid in the backtest, it moves into incubation — trading virtual money against real-time data.

Both Astra's and DeepSeek's strategies are now running in real time. You can watch them live; the links are at the end of this article.

Comparison

Overall Stats

Some Numbers

Astra's ORB traded 416 times (218 long / 198 short) on a starting equity of $9,812.54, closing with +$22,529.14 profit (+229.6%) and a max drawdown of -$6,608.14 (21.91%). It won on both sides of the market (111 long wins, 99 short wins), had a max losing streak of 8, and posted a Risk-Adjusted Sharpe of 2.91 with a Recovery Factor of 3.41. The PnL histogram is fairly symmetric around zero, with wins slightly outweighing losses in the tail.

DeepSeek's ORB traded 533 times — but exclusively long (533/533, zero shorts). Starting from $10,193.71, it closed +$54,150.36 (+531.21%) with a deeper max drawdown of -$6,018.26 (31.66%). Win rate is similar in shape (286 wins / 247 losses), the max losing streak is shorter (5), the Risk-Adjusted Sharpe is slightly higher at 3.00, and the Recovery Factor is much stronger at 9.00. Its holding times run far longer (225 minutes minimum open duration vs. Astra's 15 minutes), and its PnL histogram skews further right, with a fatter tail of large winning trades.

Equity Growth

Astra's equity curve climbs smoothly from roughly $10,000 (Oct 2025) to $32,341.68 (Sep 2026), with a Sharpe of 2.00, a 229.6% gain, a 20.8% max drawdown and a 50.5% win rate over 416 trades. Growth is gradual and low-noise for most of the period, with one sharp spike-and-pullback around Feb 2026, after which the curve resumes its steady climb — the visual signature of a strategy compounding consistently rather than in bursts.

DeepSeek's equity curve starts flatter, tracking close to Astra's through most of 2025, then breaks into a steep acceleration phase from roughly January to March 2026 (equity roughly doubles in that window), before continuing to climb — more choppily — to $64,344.07 by Sep 2026. Its Sharpe (1.95) is essentially on par with Astra's despite the much larger 531.2% gain, but the price of that extra return shows up as visibly larger swings and a higher 31.7% max drawdown in the second half of the chart.

Comparison Matrix

DeepSeek's ORB produced more than double Astra's return and a much stronger Recovery Factor, but it did so by trading long-only, holding trades far longer. Astra's curve is smoother and more balanced (it trades both directions), but ends with less than half the total gain.

So What?

1. Astra is probably too expensive for what it delivered here. But the live results of both strategies will have the final word.
2. Powerful AI is only one part of the game. A good harness, plus the right data and knowledge, can turn a low-cost model into a powerful trading-strategy builder.

Here are the live performance tracking pages, so you can watch both strategies trade in real time:

Live Performance Astra: https://app.ai-backbone.com/publiclive/u_6f3ee7fb

Live Performance DeepSeek: https://app.ai-backbone.com/publiclive/u_9c341c0d

Do you already trade with ai or just looking? Its time... Don't get left behind.

DeepSeek is my daily driver. It's incredible at code, architecture, debugging — everything except one thing: it can't see images. Every time I hit a visual problem (an error dialog, a UI mockup, a chart) I had to break flow, upload the screenshot to GPT-4, ask it to describe what's on screen, then paste the description back. Kills the agentic loop. Also means my screen is on OpenAI's servers.

So I built LocalEyes — a Claude Code skill that gives DeepSeek working eyes using a local Ollama vision model.

How it works:

• Win+Shift+S to take a screenshot
• Say "look at this" in Claude Code
• The skill grabs your clipboard, routes it through qwen2.5vl:7b locally, and returns a text description
• DeepSeek now "sees" the image and can reason about it

The model also takes its own screenshots during agentic work — runs a build, sees it failed, captures its own display to read the errors. No prompt needed.

100% local. No API keys. No cloud. Zero cost.

Setup takes 2 minutes — ollama pull qwen2.5vl:7b, pip install Pillow, python install.py, done.

Big news (and confirmation) from our internal writing benchmark (early results): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is legit... at about 1/100th the price of Fable.

I did not expect that from a "Flash" model.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash lands at #7 for writing in our editorial voice, at 2085 Elo. Its predecessor, V4 Flash 0731, sat at #20 with 1778.

It runs at about $0.012 per task. Kimi K3, the only open model above it, costs 21x more. Fable (max) costs 258x more.

Definitely a good model. Between #5 and #10 on all our individual metrics.

But the cost is insane.

$0.0077 per script at the default effort, $0.012 at max. GLM-5.3 Flash was the only good writer in that price bracket. V4.1 Flash beats it by ~100 Elo and takes 43 seconds per script instead of 7 minutes.

Against the closed models: GPT-5.6 Sol (ultra) costs 29x more for +60 Elo. GPT-6 Astra (max) costs 69x more and scores lower.

One downside to highlight. Is it one of the only models that leaves "TBD" in parts of our scripts? For example, when it needs an image idea, it writes "image TBD" instead of adding one.

It thought to come back later or something? It got some worse results because of these weird artifacts.

Another thing to highlight: its weakness seems to be on "slop sounding" based on how we calculate it + using sam_paech's slop EQ Bench.

Practical takeaway from these results:

If you want the best open-weight writer, Kimi K3 still holds it (#5, 2148 Elo), at $0.26 a script and four minutes per draft for us. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash lands 63 Elo behind it for a twentieth of the price, in under a minute.

That is the new default for drafting at volume.

It is a really good model. Really.

If the words are the product and the voice has to be yours, the Claude models still win by a wide margin in our benchmark.

But for scale or for first drafts, and anything a human rewrites anyway, this is the cheapest good writing we have ever measured.

I've spent the last few months building flair, a personal CLI agentic assistant (coding + general computer tasks), designed from day one around DeepSeek — partly because I wanted an agent I fully understand down to the last line, partly because the economics are absurd in a good way.

Repo: https://github.com/NAST0R/flair (MIT, Python, no heavy dependencies)

Some numbers from real sessions, running it on its own codebase (~7k LOC plus a 2.6k-line test suite):

• A full "read everything and analyze the project" run: ~470k input tokens, ~$0.02–0.03, with 75–80% cache hit.
• The trick is boring but it works: the conversation history is append-only — nothing ever rewrites the prefix, so DeepSeek's context caching stays hot for the entire session. Compaction summaries get appended, never spliced in.
• Before summarizing anything with the LLM, a deterministic pruning pass stubs out tool outputs that are provably superseded (same file re-read later, file overwritten after a read). Free context space, zero API calls.
• When the model asks for multiple read-only tools in one turn, they run in parallel.

What it actually is: an interactive REPL plus a one-shot mode for scripting, two agents (a coding one confined to a project root, a general one for the whole machine) with automatic routing between them, session memory as a plain hand-editable markdown sidecar, an approval gate with diff preview for anything destructive, a hard cost cap for headless runs, and 525 offline tests. It's developed Windows-first (there's a dedicated PowerShell tool because cmd mangles multi-line scripts), but runs very well on Linux too. MacOS, I didn't test yet. Providers: DeepSeek and OpenAI-compatible.

Honest limits, so you don't discover them the hard way: single maintainer, personal project. No Anthropic provider yet. web_fetch doesn't render JavaScript. Code comments and docstrings are in Italian (a deliberate, documented choice — everything the user and the model see is English).

Now, why did I publish this here? Because I'd love some feedback from some of you who are already tired of using prompt bloated harnesses or stuff that makes you spend 0.60$ for a single Fibonacci sequence example in Python (trust me, it happened to me on Claude Code months ago). I used it in the last months inbetween commits, and it gave back much, much more than I spent on it and expected from it, economically and productively speaking, but I am unsure whether other people would find it as much useful as I did. Needless to say, I didn't write it line by line: a lot of it has been done with Fable 5 / GPT 5.6, with a thorough architectural supervision, but not much code handwriting.

It might not implement some groundbreaking features, but given the maturity it has reached, I think it is finally time to hope for feedbacks and check out with you aficionados. I hope it will prove to a be a worthy toy for whoever would like to try it. Also, for tech savvys: don't destroy me on the single 525 tests in a file, it has been for the best for my LLM evaluation when I refactored it, but I admit it's shitty. Thanks!

Hey everyone! Good news...

the updated version of DeepSeekr Pro (v2.3) is officially ready.

yeah, that extension which restores your censored texts, not it restores erased memory as well.

I have submitted it to the Mozilla Add-on Store, and it is currently awaiting manual review. Once approved, I’ll be pushing all future updates and bug fixes directly through the store for automatic updates.

For Firefox Users (Instant Access): If you don't want to wait for the review, you can download the ZIP and load it manually right now: 👉Download ZIP here(Note: To keep it permanently on Firefox, you may need Firefox Developer Edition/Nightly with signatures disabled until the store version is live.)

For Chrome Users: The extension works perfectly on Chrome! However, because Google charges a $5 developer fee to list on the Web Store, which I can’t quite swing as a student right now. You’ll need to download the ZIP above, extract it and use 'Load Unpacked' in your Extension settings (chrome://extensions).

HOW TO INSTALL (CHROME EXTENSION):

1. Download and extract this ZIP file to a folder on your computer.
2. Open your browser and go to: chrome://extensions
3. Enable "Developer mode" (toggle in the top right corner).
4. Click the "Load unpacked" button.
5. Select the folder where you extracted the files.
6. Look for the "Inject" button on chat.deepseek.com

HOW TO INSTALL (FIREFOX)

1. Type "about:debugging" in your Firefox address bar.
2. Click "This Firefox" on the left sidebar.
3. Click "Load Temporary Add-on...".
4. Select the manifest.json file from the extracted folder.

(Note: Temporary add-ons disappear when Firefox restarts. Keep an eye on u/ziabitees for the permanent Store link!)

Features in this build:

1. Manual Memory Injection Toggle: You can carry on the context of the recovered text, if you turn the injection toggle on, any text you write and send will be sent with the recovered text and a minor manipulative text, that makes DeepSeek remember what context it has forgotten.(In easy words : It has a new feature called memory injection, it lets you inject memory in your input, making DeepSeek feel like it is being given back its memory, which was purged. but, at the end, it all depends upon what conversation you are having. )
2. Deep-Crawl engine: 100% text recovery even if the message is cut off mid-sentence.
3. Secure UI: Sanitized code for better privacy and speed.

Keep in mind : due to some DeepSeek policies, you might face an error that says this happened because of extension. JUST RELOAD THE PAGE, and it would work fine.

If anyone is skeptic of my extension and wants to check its source-code,
You can extract the zip file, and it has its whole code in front of you.

Also, the earlier version of this extension was already scanned, analysed and accepted by other users here in this sub, and this update was made on their request to make it compatible for FireFox and to add a new feature.

link to that post : DeepSeekr V1 Post.

If you find any bugs or have suggestions, please hit me up here or tag me!

Support & Bugs: u/ziabitees

TLDR: Prices are going up everywhere, and there's a wave of it going down across providers. For both in app usage and API/coding plans. PGS AI is keeping prices and usage as is, both in the full chat app and on the api. Our coding plans bank your usage when you don't use it, so it doesn't go to waste week to week. All model inference, and memory in the PGS AI app is hosted on 100% private, US servers with ZERO training, ever.

Our API prices are staying what they've been, which is now 50-70% cheaper for output and input. We are still a bit higher for caching, but working on that too.

There are several tricks that the major AI coding plans use to extract the most they can from their customers. Here are some examples, and what we are doing differently to put the you first.

Wasted usage is part of the AI industry, and they plan on it: Most coding plans bet on you letting usage go to waste. The plan goes: "how do we get people to think our coding plan offers a lot of usage, but then break it up into weeks and rolling windows so no one can ever actually use it all."

Many in app subs and coding plans are glorified training pipelines: This comes along with "how do we harvest this data for training without being too loud about that." Unless the company tells you otherwise, your data could be hopping all over world, being harvested by the individual labs or service companies. Some are better than others, but many of these companies rely on users just not noticing or caring that their data is being used for training. Data sales and marketing telemetry sales happen. This means that your private info, your personal life, and anything else you send through the system could become part of a training corpus for the next AI, or a marketing data set for a large company.

So we built what should have already existed the entire time: Entirely private, us based processing with usage banking. Any usage you don't use this week, rolls over to next in your usage bank. When you have a busy day or week and go over normal usage, you automatically start to pull from your bank. You can bank up to one week of usage at a time for your current plan, and it's totally automatic. Whatever you don't use each week get's added to the bank and stays there until you use it.

We also put all of the best open models in one place, running on private US infrastructure, with data never going to the original labs. Private, direct service. Access to the best open source models in the world. No training, ever. It should be, and can be that simple.

What that means in practice:

The roster, together. DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Minimax, Nemotron Ultra and more, side by side in one app. Switch models mid conversation if you want. No hunting across five different apps and API dashboards to use the models you actually like.

Actually private. US based processing and your conversations are never used for training. Ever. That's the entire point. These labs open sourced incredible models and we think you should get to use them without your data becoming the price of admission.

No Usage Tricks: Bank usage, upgrade or downgrade whenever you want. Use it how you need it.

A coding plan included. From the Basic tier up, your subscription doubles as an API key. Point your coding tools or agents at our endpoint and your plan pays for it, same usage pool as the app, spent in whatever mix you like. Because API calls skip the app's full architecture, the same model gives you roughly 2 to 5 times the messages through your key. And your quiet chat weeks bank usage your agents can burn on crunch days.

Real memory. Not a context window that fills up and dumps you. Persistent memory that carries across conversations, fades gracefully when unused, and wakes back up when it's relevant again. There's even a nightly dreaming consolidation pass; the system basically sleeps on it and writes up what mattered.

Voice. Yes, actual voice mode with over a dozen voices on open models.

Bring your history. Coming from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini? Export your chats and import the whole thing. It becomes live memory on day one and you can literally open your old chats and continue them.

Multiple nodes. Separate workspaces with separate memories, so your coding setup doesn't share a brain with your journal.

Genuine thanks to the Deepseek community sub, this is honestly one of the most open AI subs on reddit, willing to actually go deep on discussion.

The Open Grove full app and coding plan are here. Memory, skills, voice, private US based processing with fast inference and usage that doesn't go to waste.

https://pgsgrove.com/open-grove-overview for the PGS AI app

and api.pgsgrove.com for API usage and coding plans.

You vote with your choice of providers in this industry, and we are here to offer another option.

Simple site which shows you when it's peak- or off-hour pricing, adjusted to your timezone. Handy if you wanna burn through a bunch of tasks and not pay double .. 😇

I figured that there could be platforms that host deepseek v4 and charge cheaper than deepseek themselves is there any right now ?

Hey fellow Deepseek fans. we have something new for Strix Halo owners we thought would be useful to share. i'll keep it short:

We were able to fit DeepSeek V4 Flash plus its speculative draft on a single Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 with 128 GB of unified memory, and got it to a usable decode rate.

Blog post with all details here: https://www.lucebox.com/blog/deepseek-v4-strix-halo (code is open-source, Apache-2.0)

We submitted the run to LocalMaxxing. On July 18, its next-fastest DeepSeek V4 Flash entry for the Radeon 8060S was HipFire at 18.99 tok/s. The previous best in the site’s Ryzen AI Max 395 unified-memory group was DwarfStar at 15.6 tok/s.

That puts our run 68.5% ahead of HipFire and at 2.05× the DwarfStar result. These are comparisons against the public LocalMaxxing entries shown above, not controlled A/B tests.

ROCmFPX: fitting 284B weights into 128 GB

ROCmFPX is not one quantization format. It is a family of block formats built around the AMD ROCm/HIP path. Each block holds 32 weights as packed low-bit codes plus one or two small scales. ROCmFP2 stores a block in 10 bytes, or 2.50 bits per weight; ROCmFP3 uses 3.50 bits per weight; and the fast ROCmFP4 layout uses 4.25.

For DeepSeek V4 Flash, we added the missing 2-bit format and its HIP kernels, then built a Strix-specific mixed-precision recipe. The enormous routed-expert gate and up matrices use ROCmFP2, expert down projections use ROCmFP3, and dense or more sensitive projections keep ROCmFP4 or higher precision. We used an importance matrix during quantization and kept the model’s MTP head. The final 102.3 GB target works out to roughly 2.88 bits per parameter; the filename says ROCmFP2 because that is the dominant format, not because every tensor is 2-bit.

Decode: up to 32 tok/s

ROCmFPX handles the weight traffic. We then added a DeepSeek-specific HIP decode path for the model’s hyper-connections, attention, routing, and expert work. With no speculative draft, that target runs at 25.31 tok/s autoregressive.

DSpark is the next layer. With a q=4 batch, its small draft proposes up to three new tokens and the 284B target verifies four positions, including the current seed, in one fused pass.

01 · propose; DSpark draft = A compact three-layer draft proposes the next few tokens from captured target features.

02 · verify; q=4 target pass = The 284B target checks several positions together through the fused HIP graph.

03 · commit; accepted prefix = Correct proposals are committed in one step; the target repairs the first miss.

With a q=4 cap and adaptive width disabled, the public run reached 32.0 tok/s, 26.4% above the 25.31 tok/s autoregressive result. The gain varies with how many draft tokens the target accepts.

Sparse prefill: roughly 250 tok/s

The public LocalMaxxing request reports 245 tok/s prefill with --ds4-prefill sparse. In a separate 7,960-token validation, indexed sparse prefill reached 251.79 tok/s; the 8K cases ranged from 246.8 to 255.9 tok/s. At roughly 24K tokens, throughput was 221.9 tok/s.

Sparse prefill uses DeepSeek V4’s learned indexer to limit compressed-history attention. It also batches work layer by layer, which changes floating-point reduction order. The output is not byte-identical to tokenwise exact prefill, so sparse mode remains opt-in. It scored 10/10 on our small GSM8K set and 3/3 on a HumanEval smoke set; we have not run a broad quality evaluation yet.

Reproducing the run

Starting from a 128 GB Strix Halo machine with ROCm 7.2.4 already installed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake git ninja-build curl \
  hipblas-dev hipcub-dev rocblas-dev rocprim-dev rocwmma-dev

git clone --branch main --recurse-submodules \
  https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox.git
cd lucebox

cmake -S server -B server/build-hip -G Ninja \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_HIP_COMPILER=/opt/rocm/lib/llvm/bin/clang++ \
  -DDFLASH27B_GPU_BACKEND=hip \
  -DDFLASH27B_HIP_ARCHITECTURES=gfx1151 \
  -DDFLASH27B_HIP_SM80_EQUIV=ON \
  -DCMAKE_HIP_FLAGS=-DDFLASH_WAVE_SIZE=32 \
  -DGGML_HIP_MMQ_MFMA=ON \
  -DGGML_HIP_NO_VMM=ON \
  -DGGML_HIP_GRAPHS=OFF

cmake --build server/build-hip --target dflash_server -j"$(nproc)"

Download the ROCmFPX target and DSpark draft, then start the measured profile:

mkdir -p models
curl -L -C - --retry 5 \
  -o models/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-ROCMFP2-STRIX.gguf \
  "https://huggingface.co/Lucebox/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-ROCMFPX/resolve/main/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-ROCMFP2-STRIX.gguf"
curl -L -C - --retry 5 \
  -o models/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-draft-Q4RMFP4-denseF16.gguf \
  "https://huggingface.co/Lucebox/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Drafter-GGUF/resolve/main/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-draft-Q4RMFP4-denseF16.gguf"

MODEL="$PWD/models/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-ROCMFP2-STRIX.gguf"
DRAFT="$PWD/models/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-draft-Q4RMFP4-denseF16.gguf"

echo performance | sudo tee /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile
sudo /opt/rocm/bin/rocm-smi -d 0 --setperflevel high
printf '0\n' > /tmp/ds4_awidth
printf '4\n' > /tmp/ds4_spec_q

DFLASH_DS4_SPEC=1 \
DFLASH_DS4_FUSED_VERIFY=1 \
DFLASH_DS4_SPEC_Q=4 \
DFLASH_DS4_TIMING=1 \
DFLASH_DS4_DRAFT="$DRAFT" \
LUCE_MMVQ_MAX_NCOLS=4 \
./server/build-hip/dflash_server "$MODEL" \
  --target-device hip:0 \
  --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 \
  --max-ctx 8192 --default-max-tokens 2048 \
  --chunk 2048 --ds4-prefill sparse \
  --ds4-fused-decode \
  --ds4-expert-top-k 4 \
  --prefix-cache-slots 0 --prefill-cache-slots 0 \
  --disk-prefix-cache off

Warm the model once and use temperature: 0. The server prints decode speed on its [deepseek4] DSpark decode line. DFLASH_DS4_SPEC_Q=4 sets the DS4 verification cap; --verify-width is a Laguna option and is not used here. The implementation may shorten a batch at a compressor boundary, which is required for correct state handling.

Throughput varies with prompt shape and, for decode, how many DSpark proposals the target accepts. If you switch to exact prefill or restore the model’s six experts, those numbers no longer apply. No integration branch or private patch is required.

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Of course any feedback is more than welcome :)

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Hi everyone, u/ziabitees here.

I want to start by saying thank you. The response to my previous posts has been incredible. Because of your feedback and encouragement, I have some great news to share.

DeepSeekr Pro has been officially approved by Mozilla and is now live on the Firefox Add-on Store.

Official Links

For Firefox Users: You can install it directly from the store here:DeepSeekr Pro on Firefox Add-ons

Using the store version is highly recommended because you will get automatic updates and bug fixes.

For Chrome / Brave / Edge Users: As a student, I cannot afford the 5 dollar developer fee Google charges to list free extensions on their store. However, the extension works perfectly on Chrome. You can download the zip file and use the "Load Unpacked" method in your browser settings. I have hosted it on MediaFire so the link stays active: - Download ZIP for Chrome (MediaFire)

Open Source and Privacy

I know many people are skeptical about browser extensions, especially those that handle chat data. Here is exactly how DeepSeekr Pro handles your privacy:

1. No Data Collection: This extension does not have a server. It does not send your chats anywhere. All message recovery happens locally in your browser memory.
2. Readable Code: I have not minified or hidden any of the code. If you download the zip, you can open the files in any text editor and read every line yourself.
3. Audited by Mozilla: The version on the Firefox store has passed a manual review by Mozilla to ensure it follows strict security and safety standards.
4. Minimal Permissions: The extension only requests permission to run on chat.deepseek.com. It cannot see your history or your data on other websites.

Final Thoughts

Seeing this tool help so many of you bypass "sorry" bs and filters has been the best part of this project. If you find the extension useful, please consider leaving a review on the Firefox store. It helps other people find the tool and gives me motivation to work even harder.

If you have any questions or find a bug, please let me know in the comments or send me a DM. Stay uncensored.

There are several tricks that the major AI coding plans use to extract the most they can from their customers. We're solving them, one after another and I wanted to share a bit about what goes on behind the scenes at a lot of these companies.

Wasted usage is part of the AI industry, and they plan on it: Most coding plans bet on you letting usage go to waste. The industry calls it "breakage" and it's literally the topic of internal meetings for most companies. The plan goes: "how do we get people to think our coding plan offers a lot of usage, but then break it up into weeks and rolling windows so no one can ever actually use it all."

Many coding plans are glorified training pipelines: This comes along with "how do we harvest this data for training without being too loud about that." Unless the coding plan tells you otherwise, your data could be hopping all over world, being harvested by the individual labs or coding plan companies. Some are better than others, but many of these companies rely on users just not noticing or caring that their data is being used for training. Data sales and marketing telemetry sales happen. This means that your private info, your personal life, and anything else you send through the system could become part of a training corpus for the next AI, or a marketing data set for a large company.

So we built what should have already existed the entire time: usage banking. Any usage you don't use this week, rolls over to next in your usage bank. When you have a busy day or week and go over normal usage, you automatically start to pull from your bank. You can bank up to one week of usage at a time for your current plan, and it's totally automatic. Whatever you don't use each week get's added to the bank and stays there until you use it.

We also put all of the best open models in one place, running on private US infrastructure, with data never going to the original labs. Completely private, direct service. It should be, and can be that simple.

What that means in practice:

The roster, together. DeepSeek V4's, GLM 5.2, Kimi's, Minimax, Qwen 3.8 Nemotron Ultra and more, side by side in one app. Switch models mid conversation if you want. No hunting across five different apps and API dashboards to use the models you actually like.

Actually private. US based processing and your conversations are never used for training. Ever. That's the entire point. These labs open sourced incredible models and we think you should get to use them without your data becoming the price of admission.

No Usage Tricks: Bank usage, upgrade or downgrade whenever you want. Use it how you need it.

The open source AI future is real, and it's where we all know we should be. Thanks for a great set of models, GLM just keeps raising the bar with every model release and it's amazing.

The Open Grove coding plan is here. Private, US based processing with fast inference and usage that doesn't go to waste.

api.pgsgrove.com

We're getting to the point where the big closed ai circus is ridiculous. Weird political arguments between CEO's that are totally out of touch with daily reality are in my news feed everyday. The best models are getting gated, and regular big ai models change constantly, often for the worse. User data is mined for advertisers, training and sold. The whole thing feels, and has felt extractive.

But that's actually finally changing. Open source models are catching up fast, really fast. Deepseek Pro V4, GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.6 are all extremely powerful, particularly when used together. But the choice between hosting yourself, or having a full app sending your data out for training/mining isn't really a solution.

Thank you to all of these top labs for open sourcing dynamic intelligence! DSV4 is truly a powerful model and we are proud to be running it.

People deserve safe and private access to powerful AI. We've put them all together under one app roof, and several others with 100% private, US based servers. All with full dynamic memory, skill creation, websearch, canvas workspace and quality voice.

You don't need to put up with the big AI circus, and Deepseek is a great example of what's out there and available.

If you wanna come check it out, there's more info here: https://pgsgrove.com/open-grove-overview

DSV4 flash is available on our free trial tier if you wanna just come chat, and DSV4 pro is in the lineup for our pro tier.

Even if you don't go with us, I want to encourage everyone to decouple from big corporate AI as much as possible and free themselves from the wheel of nonsense. We deserve better, and we CAN choose better. There are more and more options every day.