DeepSeek Releases DeepSeek-OCR-2
Narrative
Advanced vision/OCR model with "Visual Causal Flow" encoding for more human-like visual understanding and processing. Improves on prior DeepSeek VL/OCR capabilities with better context handling and accuracy in document/image analysis tasks.
Reality
Released January 28, 2026. Open weights available via Hugging Face; inference optimized for NVIDIA GPUs. Accompanied by arXiv paper detailing causal flow architecture. Community testing shows strong gains in OCR/document understanding benchmarks; positioned as efficient multimodal extension to their reasoning/coding lineup.
Implication
Expands DeepSeek beyond text/reasoning into robust vision capabilities at low cost. Reinforces open-source multimodal leadership from China. Enables developer use cases like automated document processing without proprietary APIs. Complements V3/R1 strengths for agentic workflows involving images.