DeepSeek-VL 7B

DeepSeek-VL-7B is the 7-billion-parameter flagship of DeepSeek's first vision-language family, released on March 11, 2024, in base and chat variants (plus 1.3B siblings). Designed for real-world vision-language understanding, it handles logical diagrams, web pages, formula recognition, scientific literature, natural images, and embodied scenarios.

The open release includes weights, inference code, and a Gradio demo, with commercial use permitted under the DeepSeek model license. It was among the strongest open multimodal models of early 2024 before the DeepSeek-VL2 successor arrived.