DeepSeek publishes 168GB vision model weights under an MIT license
The 305B-parameter checkpoint lands 10 days after its API debut, while DeepSeek's headline benchmark uses Anthropic's superseded Opus 4.8.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: ModelScope on X
Why it matters
DeepSeek has moved its first V4 vision model from an API product to a downloadable checkpoint, widening access to multimodal agent development while keeping the hardware bar high.
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng published open weights for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on August 31st, giving developers a downloadable version of the lab's first experimental multimodal model in the V4 family.…