Introducing DeepSeek-VL, an open-source Vision-Language (VL) Model designed for real-world vision and language understanding applications. DeepSeek-VL possesses general multimodal understanding capabilities, capable of processing logical diagrams, web pages, formula recognition, scientific literature, natural images, and embodied intelligence in complex scenarios.
[DeepSeek-VL: Towards Real-World Vision-Language Understanding](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05525)
<summary>✅ <b>2024-03-11</b>: DeepSeek-VL family released, including <code>DeepSeek-VL-7B-base</code>, <code>DeepSeek-VL-7B-chat</code>, <code>DeepSeek-VL-1.3B-base</code>, and <code>DeepSeek-VL-1.3B-chat</code>.</summary>
<br>The release includes a diverse set of models tailored for various applications within the DeepSeek-VL family. The models come in two sizes: 7B and 1.3B parameters, each offering base and chat variants to cater to different needs and integration scenarios.
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## 3. Model Downloads
We release the DeepSeek-VL family, including 1.3B-base, 1.3B-chat, 7b-base and 7b-chat models, to the public.
To support a broader and more diverse range of research within both academic and commercial communities.
Please note that the use of this model is subject to the terms outlined in [License section](#5-license). Commercial usage is
This code repository is licensed under [the MIT License](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM/blob/HEAD/LICENSE-CODE). The use of DeepSeek-VL Base/Chat models is subject to [DeepSeek Model License](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM/blob/HEAD/LICENSE-MODEL). DeepSeek-VL series (including Base and Chat) supports commercial use.
## 6. Citation
```
@misc{lu2024deepseekvl,
title={DeepSeek-VL: Towards Real-World Vision-Language Understanding},
author={Haoyu Lu and Wen Liu and Bo Zhang and Bingxuan Wang and Kai Dong and Bo Liu and Jingxiang Sun and Tongzheng Ren and Zhuoshu Li and Hao Yang and Yaofeng Sun and Chengqi Deng and Hanwei Xu and Zhenda Xie and Chong Ruan},