DEEPSEEK DEBUTS OPEN-SOURCE AI MODEL JANUS-PRO-7B
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Chinese AI firm DeepSeek unveiled on Monday its open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B, which allegedly surpasses both Stable Diffusion and OpenAI's DALL-E 3 in terms of image creation capabilities.
'Janus-Pro is a novel autoregressive framework that unifies multimodal understanding and generation. It addresses the limitations of previous approaches by decoupling visual encoding into separate pathways, while still utilizing a single, unified transformer architecture for processing,' the company said on Monday. 'Janus-Pro surpasses previous unified model and matches or exceeds the performance of task-specific models
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