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2025: Opening Access to Open Visual-Generative Models

Yandex B2B Tech has opened access to open source visual-generative models (VLMs) such as Deepseek VL2 Tiny and Gemma3 27B. The company announced this on April 24, 2025. New technology solutions allow companies to analyze images, compile product descriptions and process large amounts of visual information.

About 20 large language and visual models are available in Yandex Cloud AI Studio. Among them are Deepseek VL2 Tiny, Qwen2.5 VL, Gemma3 27B and other advanced opensource solutions for image analysis.

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Yandex Cloud CTO Dmitry Andreev noted the advantages of the new platform. Business gets the opportunity to test various neural networks to solve specific problems, further train models for specific needs and run them with minimal programming.

Key capabilities of the new neural networks include classifying goods by category, compiling descriptions for each image, finding and identifying defects in photographs, analyzing the design and functionality of interiors.

According to the company, charging models starts from 200 thousand tokens (approximately 200 images or 360 pages of text). The cost of using in batch mode will be half the standard tariff, and the result can be obtained during the day.

Among the available models are Qwen2.5, Llama 3.3, reasoning neural networks QwQ and DeepSeek R1. The company plans to quickly deploy new opensource models on the platform as they become available.

In the near future, customers will also have access to Yandex's own VLM model, which is already used in services such as Alice, Neuroexpert and Search. Customers will be able to deploy the necessary neural network on a cloud platform with dedicated resources for one-time requests.^[1]

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