diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4522d57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# The .dockerignore file excludes files from the container build process.
+#
+# https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#dockerignore-file
+
+# Exclude Git files
+.git
+.github
+.gitignore
+
+# Exclude Python cache files
+__pycache__
+.mypy_cache
+.pytest_cache
+.ruff_cache
+
+# Exclude Python virtual environment
+/venv
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6d24eaf..6fc9f6d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
   <a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai" target="_blank">
     <img alt="Hugging Face" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20Hugging%20Face-DeepSeek%20AI-ffc107?color=ffc107&logoColor=white" />
   </a>
-
+  <a href="https://replicate.com/lucataco/deepseek-vl-7b-base" target="_blank_">
+    <img src="https://replicate.com/lucataco/deepseek-vl-7b-base/badge" alt="Replicate"/>
+  </a>
 </div>
 
 
diff --git a/cog.yaml b/cog.yaml
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index 0000000..97a33c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cog.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Configuration for Cog ⚙️
+# Reference: https://github.com/replicate/cog/blob/main/docs/yaml.md
+
+build:
+  gpu: true
+  python_version: "3.9"
+  python_packages:
+    - "accelerate==0.27.2"
+    - "attrdict==2.0.1"
+    - "einops==0.7.0"
+    - "sentencepiece==0.2.0"
+    - "torch==2.0.1"
+    - "torchvision==0.15.2"
+    - "transformers>=4.38.2"
+    - "timm>=0.9.16"
+    - "hf_transfer==0.1.6"
+
+# predict.py defines how predictions are run on your model
+predict: "predict.py:Predictor"
diff --git a/predict.py b/predict.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4954973
--- /dev/null
+++ b/predict.py
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Prediction interface for Cog ⚙️
+# https://github.com/replicate/cog/blob/main/docs/python.md
+
+from cog import BasePredictor, Input, Path, ConcatenateIterator
+import os
+import torch
+from threading import Thread
+from deepseek_vl.utils.io import load_pil_images
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, TextIteratorStreamer
+from deepseek_vl.models import VLChatProcessor, MultiModalityCausalLM
+
+# Enable faster download speed
+os.environ["HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER"] = "1"
+MODEL_NAME = "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl-7b-base"
+CACHE_DIR = "checkpoints"
+
+
+class Predictor(BasePredictor):
+    def setup(self) -> None:
+        """Load the model into memory to make running multiple predictions efficient"""
+        self.vl_chat_processor: VLChatProcessor = VLChatProcessor.from_pretrained(
+            MODEL_NAME,
+            cache_dir=CACHE_DIR
+        )
+        self.tokenizer = self.vl_chat_processor.tokenizer
+        vl_gpt: MultiModalityCausalLM = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            MODEL_NAME,
+            torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+            cache_dir=CACHE_DIR
+        )
+        self.vl_gpt = vl_gpt.to('cuda')
+
+    @torch.inference_mode()
+    def predict(
+        self,
+        image: Path = Input(description="Input image"),
+        prompt: str = Input(description="Input prompt", default="Describe this image"),
+        max_new_tokens: int = Input(description="Maximum number of tokens to generate", default=512)
+    ) -> ConcatenateIterator[str]:
+        """Run a single prediction on the model"""
+        conversation = [
+            {
+                "role": "User",
+                "content": "<image_placeholder>"+prompt,
+                "images": [str(image)]
+            },
+            {
+                "role": "Assistant",
+                "content": ""
+            }
+        ]
+
+        # load images and prepare for inputs
+        pil_images = load_pil_images(conversation)
+        prepare_inputs = self.vl_chat_processor(
+            conversations=conversation,
+            images=pil_images,
+            force_batchify=True
+        ).to('cuda')
+    
+        streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(
+            self.tokenizer, skip_prompt=True, skip_special_tokens=True
+        )
+        
+        thread = Thread(
+            target=self.vl_gpt.language_model.generate,
+            kwargs={
+                "inputs_embeds": self.vl_gpt.prepare_inputs_embeds(**prepare_inputs),
+                "attention_mask": prepare_inputs.attention_mask,
+                "pad_token_id": self.tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+                "bos_token_id": self.tokenizer.bos_token_id,
+                "eos_token_id": self.tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+                "max_new_tokens": max_new_tokens,
+                "do_sample": False,
+                "use_cache": True,
+                "streamer": streamer,
+            },
+        )
+        thread.start()
+        for new_token in streamer:
+            yield new_token
+        thread.join()