DeepSeek VL
Towards Real-World Vision-Language Understanding
...The model is likely used internally as the visual encoder backbone for agent use cases, to ground perception in downstream tasks (e.g. answering questions about a screenshot). The repository includes model weights (or pointers to them), evaluation metrics on standard vision + language benchmarks, and configuration or architecture files. It also supports inference tools for forwarding image + prompt through the model to produce text output. DeepSeek-VL is a predecessor to their newer VL2 model, and presumably shares core design philosophy but with earlier scaling, fewer enhancements, or capability tradeoffs.