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title: "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Cuts Prefill Compute 50% in Shift From Standard Transformer"
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# DeepSeek V4\.1 Flash Cuts Prefill Compute 50% in Shift From Standard Transformer

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**Published:** 2026-09-17T11:52:30.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** deepseek, llm, inference, transformer, reasoning, benchmark, v41, flash

## Summary

DeepSeek\-V4\.1\-Flash employs a Causal Encoder\-Decoder design that activates 8B parameters per prefill token compared to 16B per decode token\. The model 40 layer…

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