DeepSeek V4 Flash with vision is now available on AI Gateway.

This model is an experimental version that accepts images alongside text. You can ask it to describe a picture, read text out of a screenshot, or work through a chart in the same request as your prompt. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway. Tool use, reasoning, and caching all work the same as before.

Use deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp to get started:

import { generateText } from 'ai' ;

import fs from 'node:fs' ;

const { text } = await generateText ( {

model : 'deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp' ,

messages : [

{

role : 'user' ,

content : [

{ type : 'text' , text : 'What is in this screenshot?' } ,

{

type : 'file' ,

mediaType : 'image/png' ,

data : fs . readFileSync ( './example.png' ) ,

} ,

] ,

} ,

] ,

} ) ;

Images can be JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP.…