DeepSeek-VL

DeepSeek · 2024 · Multimodal LLM · China

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: DeepSeek
C · CEO & Politics: Liang Wenfeng — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text+Image+Audio
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Liang Wenfeng (Founder & CEO)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: Multimodal LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, DeepSeek License)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: DeepSeek's DeepSeek-VL, an open vision-language model for real-world understanding of logical diagrams, web pages, formulas, scientific literature, natural images and embodied scenes; the 7B version pairs a hybrid SigLIP-L and SAM-B vision encoder (1024x1024 input) with DeepSeek-LLM-7B and was trained on about 400B vision-language tokens, with an instruction-tuned chat version. Commercial use is allowed under the DeepSeek Model License.
S · Stock / Status: Private (funded by High-Flyer)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @deepseek_ai
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Multimodal LLM from DeepSeek, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“DeepSeek-VL.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/deepseek-vl.html