Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek-V4-Flash (DeepSeek · China) and Talkie-1930-13B-IT (Talkie-LM (research)) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DeepSeek-V4-Flash is rated conditional; Talkie-1930-13B-IT is conditional. They part ways on licence: DeepSeek-V4-Flash is "MIT", Talkie-1930-13B-IT is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional DeepSeek-V4-Flash is the smaller-active sibling of V4-Pro under the same MIT terms — permissive on the weights, but the China-based vendor and undocumented training corpus mean any EU deployment still needs a self-hosted topology and a deployer-side GPAI documentation file under AI Act Article 53. | Conditional Per the published model card, Talkie-1930-13B-IT is an Apache 2.0 instruction-tuned 13B model trained exclusively on pre-1931 English text (260B tokens, sourced from public-domain reference works). The training-data transparency is unusually clean for AI Act Article 53 purposes; the limits are vendor jurisdiction (a US-affiliated research collaboration with no published EU DPA) and the deliberate vintage corpus, which makes the model unsuitable for any task requiring post-1931 factual knowledge. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Categories only | Documented |
| Origin | China | US (research) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 47/100 | — |
| Speed | 79 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.17/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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No overlapping sources between the two entries.