Instructions to use mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-lm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-lm # if on a CUDA device, also pip install mlx[cuda] # Generate text with mlx-lm from mlx_lm import load, generate model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit") prompt = "Once upon a time in" text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- LM Studio
- MLX LM
How to use mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit with MLX LM:
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# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Generate some text mlx_lm.generate --model "mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit" --prompt "Once upon a time"
does mlx-lm 0.31.3 support deepseekv4 already?
does mlx-lm 0.31.3 support deepseekv4 already?
Python 3.13.9 | packaged by Anaconda, Inc. | (main, Oct 21 2025, 19:11:29) [Clang 20.1.8 ] on darwin
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from mlx_lm import load, generate
...
... model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit")
...
... prompt = "Once upon a time in"
... text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/mlx_lm/utils.py", line 188, in _get_classes
arch = importlib.import_module(f"mlx_lm.models.{model_type}")
File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/importlib/init.py", line 88, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "", line 1387, in _gcd_import
File "", line 1360, in _find_and_load
File "", line 1324, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mlx_lm.models.deepseek_v4'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 3, in
model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit")
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/mlx_lm/utils.py", line 491, in load
model, config = load_model(model_path, lazy, model_config=model_config)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/mlx_lm/utils.py", line 334, in load_model
model_class, model_args_class = get_model_classes(config=config)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.13/site-packages/mlx_lm/utils.py", line 191, in _get_classes
raise ValueError(msg)
ValueError: Model type deepseek_v4 not supported.