DeepSeek Drops a 305B Open Multimodal Model Under MIT License

DeepSeek shipped V4-Vision-Exp, a 305-billion-parameter open multimodal model, keeping the open-weight frontier within striking distance of the closed labs.

DeepSeek has released V4-Vision-Exp, a 305-billion-parameter open multimodal model under an MIT license, according to a release roundup from @DreyXAI. The permissive license is as notable as the parameter count — MIT terms mean commercial users can build on it with minimal restriction, which is exactly the property that has made DeepSeek's earlier releases spread so quickly.

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