V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Launched, Now Offering Multimodal API Services

DeepSeek announced today that its brand-new multimodal visual understanding model, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, is now available on the DeepSeek API platform. The model is experimental and can be invoked by users by setting model="deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp". Its pure text capabilities are roughly on par with the official release of DeepSeek-V4-Flash, while demonstrating significantly improved performance in benchmarks requiring visual understanding, bringing its multimodal Agent capabilities close to Opus-4.8.