vision
DeepSeek gave its cheapest model eyes and did not change the price News
DeepSeek shipped an experimental vision version of its V4-Flash model that accepts images by base64, URL, or file upload, and bills it at exactly the same rate as the text-only model.
Humans score 96% on a new visual exam. The best model gets one in ten. News
A new benchmark called ActiveVision asks models to keep re-examining a picture while reasoning through it, and GPT-5.5 solved 9 of 85 problems at its highest reasoning setting while unaided humans averaged 81.7.
Giving an AI real spatial tools instead of letting it guess News
Vision AIs are surprisingly bad at precise 'where is this in 3D space' questions. This one stops guessing and calls dedicated spatial tools, while keeping a memory across views.
Do robots even need to imagine the movie? News
The common belief is that a robot needs to imagine a video of what happens next to plan. A new method says no — imagine a single still frame, and don't even fully draw it.
Qwen3.8-27B Tool
Apache 2.0 vision-capable 27B model with a 262k context window, runnable on a well-specced laptop in quantized form. Ships with reasoning effort set to xhigh, which is worth turning down before first use.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Tool
An MIT-licensed 168 GB experimental multimodal V4-family checkpoint with a public model card and files.
DeepSeek V4-Flash vision API Tool
Experimental image input for DeepSeek's cheap V4-Flash model, billed at the same rate as the text-only version. Accepts images as inline base64, as a URL the model fetches, or as a file uploaded through the Files API. The experimental tag is real, so treat the interface as unstable, but it makes high-volume image reading economically sensible.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (experimental) Tool
An experimental multimodal version of DeepSeek's cheapest model, live on the DeepSeek API as deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp. It takes images inline with text via base64, external URL, or the Files API, budgets each image to at most 384 tokens after resizing toward roughly 800 by 800 pixels, and bills at ordinary V4 Flash rates. Good for screenshots, charts, and document layout; not for small type or dense diagrams.