DeepSeek Introduces Vision

innis226

Nice, is this available in the API now as well?

crvdgc

Vision has been in A/B testing for a while now (at least in China). Is there an official announcement that this will be available for everyone?

rcMgD2BwE72F

Points to https://chat.deepseek.com/sign_in for me, that's just a login screen. Anything page with some info?

bjoli

What has been going on with deepseek recently? I have gotten lots of replies in Chinese and even more frequently, reasoning in Chinese as well. Is it a new silent update?

earth2mars

And it's really good and fast. Have tested with bunch of odd photos on what is happening. Overall the training set seems large enough to know what's what and where

andrewstuart

OpenAI and Anthropic need to get this free foreign competition banned.

arjie

If they'd do one of those little extraneous additions like Qwen does, so that I can have DS4 Flash with Vision that would be great. I've got to run a separate model entirely so that I can get vision and I'd prefer to just put it all in one space.

tornikeo

I really need this as an API. Turns out, to use Claude Agents SDK, you need to have a vision enabled API. If Deepseek API could see, it can fully drive Claude Code and Claude Agents SDK. A project I'm working on relies on a Claude-in-CloudflareWorker setup and I've been relying on Qwen and gemini flash lite, both more expensive than Deepseek. Can't wait to have it available on deepseek.

jiehong

For those not trying, this allows Deepseek to understand a picture (instead of just extracting text from it), and it can describe what's in the picture, but this is not an image generation system, so you can't ask it to modify an image. Personally, I'm a bit surprised the DS chat app still doesn't offer its own text to speech and speech to text features (I know DS doesn't have any ASR model for example, but there are quite a few in the open).

throwaw12

I wish they published a post where we read about capabilities, quality, accuracy and other parameters

tw1984

what is more interesting to me is why it takes so long for them to support vision. does it implies that Liang believes vision/voice is less important on its way to AGI?

alexwwang

Does the api support vision yet?

thiago_fm

Just wait until they release their coding model. Once they do an Opus-level coding model, the sandcastle of the AI economy in the US will fall

insumanth

Multi-Modal is the way to go. Deepmind nailed this a long back.

k_138z

I wonder what it has to say for the Tank Man image.

bhanu786

Direct competition to american companies like OpenAi, Anthropic proving china can also launch great models

harryf

Could go nicely with https://auge.franzai.com/ ( CLI on Apple Vision frameworks ) - do the first pass locally. If needed call their API for a more detailed analysis and then _finally_ we produce meaningful alt texts for images in HTML at a reasonable price ;)

vitorgrs

I already had it for months? What's the news here?

Bnjoroge

I hope they bring it to their apis, especially v4flash. I find myself using mimo 2.5 more since it supports vision and makes it cheap for doing e2e tests with playwright or similar

exabrial

The product I want most is the ability to return to the late January 2026 version of Anthropic models.