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AI · February 10, 2025

DeepSeek-VL2

MoE vision-language, now easier to access

DeepSeek-VL2 launched on February 10, 2025 with 503 votes, #49 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

In plain words

DeepSeek-VL2 is an open-source vision-language model that combines text and image understanding using a mixture-of-experts architecture for efficiency. It's designed for developers and researchers who need multimodal AI capabilities. The model stands out for its open-source availability and a Hugging Face demo that makes testing accessible without requiring specialized setup.

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From the sources

DeepSeek-VL2 are open-source vision-language models with strong multimodal understanding, powered by an efficient MoE architecture. Easily test them out with the new Hugging Face demo.

DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-VL2

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