DeepSeek Releases V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Multimodal Model
heyshrutimishra · x · 2026-08-22
DeepSeek has released an experimental multimodal model, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. It layers vision capabilities on top of the existing V4-Flash text capabilities, leaving agents, reasoning, and world knowledge untouched.
Performance:
- Achieves a major leap over V4-Flash on multimodal agent benchmarks, bringing performance close to Opus-4.8.
- Available via the API using the model identifier deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp.
- DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1 was released simultaneously with out-of-the-box support.
Related event: DeepSeek Launches V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Closing In on Opus 4.8(29 posts)→
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