DeepSeek-VL-7B is an AI model developed by DeepSeek (China), first published in March 2024. It works in the multimodal, vision and language domain, on tasks such as character recognition (ocr), language modeling/generation, visual question answering and question answering.
Training it took an estimated 10²³ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting,hardware). The model has 7,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 400M datapoints. Training ran on 512 NVIDIA A100 for about 120 hours.
Access: Open weights (restricted use). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of DeepSeek LLM 7B. The reference paper has 797 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.