DeepSeek-VL2
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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
- 6/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 6/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 9/10 · Significance 5/10 → 5.9
- R · What Makes It Special
- DeepSeek's DeepSeek-VL2, a series of mixture-of-experts vision-language models in Tiny, Small and standard versions with 1.0B, 2.8B and 4.5B activated parameters (the standard model built on DeepSeekMoE-27B); DeepSeek reports competitive or state-of-the-art results with similar or fewer activated parameters than other open models on visual question answering, OCR, document, table and chart understanding and visual grounding.
- 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 88% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“DeepSeek-VL2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/deepseek-vl2.html
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