- Chinese company DeepSeek has released its Janus Pro image models.
- The company claims that these models can rival or beat Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 3 in benchmarks.
- An online demo doesn’t deliver great results, but it’s unclear whether this is representative of the final model.
Chinese company DeepSeek has made waves after it released the DeepSeek R1 AI model. The new model delivers competitive results with OpenAI’s models while apparently requiring a fraction of the training budget and using older AI chips. Now, the company has released an upgraded image model that is apparently taking the fight to the industry’s big dogs.
DeepSeek launched its Janus Pro series of image models on GitHub and Hugging Face, and it’s available in both one-billion and seven-billion parameter models. Interestingly, the company claims that the latter model can rival or beat Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 3 in benchmarks. It’s worth noting that these are just a few benchmarks, while this comparison was made to older versions of Stable Diffusion. But it’s still a pretty impressive achievement if confirmed.
