🔬 research2026-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: First Multimodal Model in the V4 Family, MIT Open Weights, and Agentic Vision Benchmarks
On August 21, 2026, DeepSeek launched V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on its API, followed by open weights on Hugging Face under MIT license on August 31. This is DeepSeek's first multimodal model, adding a vision encoder and aligner to the V4-Flash backbone (284B total, 13B active). It achieves 36.5% on ApexBench (vs. 26.2% for text-only V4-Flash), 27.3% on Agents' Last Exam (beating Opus-4.8's 25.7%), and 35.0% on ZeroBench Pass@5. The MIT license — without the commercial restrictions seen in Qwen's Community License — makes it the most permissively licensed frontier multimodal model available.
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