DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp

Name: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
Author: DeepSeek

DeepSeekOpen WeightsPending Human Review

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is the experimental vision-language specialization of the production V4 Flash model. It adds image understanding for agent tasks while retaining the text capabilities of V4 Flash, enabling workflows that inspect interfaces, diagrams, and other visual context. It was publicly accessible through a dedicated DeepSeek API model name before downloadable MIT weights were released. Following the September 10 V4.1 Flash launch, the experimental endpoint was retired and its alias redirected; the original checkpoint remains available for self-hosted research.

2026-08-21

Mixture of Experts (MoE) language model with vision encoder

MIT

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Specifications

Architecture: Mixture of Experts (MoE) language model with vision encoder
License: MIT
Type: multimodal
Modalities: textimage

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Advanced Specifications

Model Family: DeepSeek
API Access: Not Available
Chat Interface: Not Available

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities: reasoningcode generationmathematicsvisual understandingmultimodal agents
Known Limitations: Experimental model superseded by V4.1 Flash.The original API identifier now routes to V4.1 Flash.Local deployment requires the multimodal encoding and inference implementation.
Notable Use Cases: visual coding agentsscreenshot analysismultimodal agent research
Tool Use Support: Yes

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