DeepSeek opens a 305B multimodal model

DeepSeek published the 305-billion-parameter V4-Flash-Vision-Exp as an open-weight multimodal model, adding a visual encoder and aligner to its agent stack. The official model card confirms the MIT license, tokenizer and inference reference, while coverage of the release reports the 305B scale; benchmark results remain vendor-run and the checkpoint is multi-GPU territory. Teams choosing a permissive base model should file this beside the archive’s open-weight adoption denominator: license freedom is useful only if serving cost and hardware fit survive production.