DeepSeek Strikes Again: Does Its New Open-Source AI Model Beat DALL-E 3?
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DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that recently upended industry assumptions about sector development costs, has released a new family of open-source multimodal AI models that reportedly outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 on key benchmarks. Dubbed Janus Pro, the model ranges from 1 billion (extremely small) to 7 billion parameters (near the size of SD 3.5L) and is available for immediate download on machine learning and data science hub Huggingface. The largest version, Janus Pro 7B, beats not only OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 but also other leading models like PixArt-alpha, Emu3-Gen, and SDXL on industry benchmarks GenEval and DPG-Bench, according to information shared by DeepSeek AI. Image: DeepSeek AI Its release comes just days after DeepSeek made headlines with its R1 language model, which matched GPT-4’s capabilities while costing just $5 million to develop—sparking a heated debate about the current state of the AI industry. The Chinese startup’s product has also triggered sector-wide concerns it could upend incumbents and knock the growth trajectory of major chip manufacturer Nvidia, which suffered the largest single-day market cap loss in history on Monday. DeepSeek’s Janus Pro model uses what the company calls a “novel autoregressive framework” that decouples visual encoding into separate pathways while maintaining a single, unified transformer architecture. This design allows the model to both analyze images and generate images at 768×768 resolution. “Janus Pro surpasses previous unified model and matches or exceeds the performance of task-specific models,” DeepSeek claimed in its release documentation. “The simplicity, high flexibility, and effectiveness of Janus Pro make it a strong candidate for next-generation unified multimodal models.” Unlike with DeepSeek R1, the company didn’t publish a full whitepaper on the model but did release its technical documentation and made the model available for immediate download free of charge—continuing its practice of open-sourcing releases that contrasts sharply with the closed,…
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