DeepSeek VL

DeepSeek-VL is DeepSeek’s initial vision-language model that anchors their multimodal stack. It enables understanding and generation across visual and textual modalities—meaning it can process an image + a prompt, answer questions about images, caption, classify, or reason about visuals in context. The model is likely used internally as the visual encoder backbone for agent use cases, to ground perception in downstream tasks (e.g. answering questions about a screenshot). The repository includes model weights (or pointers to them), evaluation metrics on standard vision + language benchmarks, and configuration or architecture files. It also supports inference tools for forwarding image + prompt through the model to produce text output. DeepSeek-VL is a predecessor to their newer VL2 model, and presumably shares core design philosophy but with earlier scaling, fewer enhancements, or capability tradeoffs.