DeepSeek Vision Models

Open-weight AI has revolutionized the way developers construct AI systems by allowing them to download model weights, inspect architectures, and fine-tune models on their data. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research company established in 2023, has significantly contributed to this transformation by releasing a series of open foundation models with a focus on Mixture-of-Experts architecture, reinforcement learning, and efficient training methods. DeepSeek's models are particularly noted for their vision capabilities, enabling tasks such as image understanding, OCR, visual question answering, and image generation. The company's key model families, including DeepSeek-VL, Janus, and DeepSeek-VL2, are designed to handle complex multimodal tasks, incorporating advanced features like dynamic tiling and autoregressive frameworks to enhance multimodal reasoning and image generation. DeepSeek's integration with tools like the Roboflow Supervision library facilitates the translation of model outputs into practical vision pipelines, making it a valuable resource for developers aiming to implement sophisticated computer vision applications.