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DeepSeek Introduces Vision

142 pointsby RIshabh235today at 6:17 AM65 commentsview on HN

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jiehongtoday at 7:39 AM

For those not trying, this allows Deepseek to understand a picture (instead of just extracting text from it), and it can describe what's in the picture, but this is not an image generation system, so you can't ask it to modify an image.

Personally, I'm a bit surprised the DS chat app still doesn't offer its own text to speech and speech to text features (I know DS doesn't have any ASR model for example, but there are quite a few in the open).

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rcMgD2BwE72Ftoday at 6:58 AM

Points to https://chat.deepseek.com/sign_in for me, that's just a login screen. Anything page with some info?

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bjolitoday at 7:00 AM

What has been going on with deepseek recently? I have gotten lots of replies in Chinese and even more frequently, reasoning in Chinese as well.

Is it a new silent update?

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insumanthtoday at 9:21 AM

Multi-Modal is the way to go. Deepmind nailed this a long back.

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throwaw12today at 8:06 AM

I wish they published a post where we read about capabilities, quality, accuracy and other parameters

tornikeotoday at 7:27 AM

I really need this as an API.

Turns out, to use Claude Agents SDK, you need to have a vision enabled API. If Deepseek API could see, it can fully drive Claude Code and Claude Agents SDK. A project I'm working on relies on a Claude-in-CloudflareWorker setup and I've been relying on Qwen and gemini flash lite, both more expensive than Deepseek.

Can't wait to have it available on deepseek.

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arjietoday at 7:20 AM

If they'd do one of those little extraneous additions like Qwen does, so that I can have DS4 Flash with Vision that would be great. I've got to run a separate model entirely so that I can get vision and I'd prefer to just put it all in one space.

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earth2marstoday at 7:02 AM

And it's really good and fast. Have tested with bunch of odd photos on what is happening. Overall the training set seems large enough to know what's what and where

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crvdgctoday at 6:57 AM

Vision has been in A/B testing for a while now (at least in China). Is there an official announcement that this will be available for everyone?

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innis226today at 6:57 AM

Nice, is this available in the API now as well?

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alexwwangtoday at 8:47 AM

Does the api support vision yet?

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tw1984today at 8:35 AM

what is more interesting to me is why it takes so long for them to support vision.

does it implies that Liang believes vision/voice is less important on its way to AGI?

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thiago_fmtoday at 9:17 AM

Just wait until they release their coding model. Once they do an Opus-level coding model, the sandcastle of the AI economy in the US will fall

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hklohanitoday at 7:26 AM

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ValveFan6666today at 6:56 AM

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andrewstuarttoday at 7:12 AM

OpenAI and Anthropic need to get this free foreign competition banned.

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