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DeepSeekis on a roll.

If you’re curious to try it for yourself, you canaccess the model at HuggingFace here.

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This is not a typical combination with conventional models.

They call it unified multimodal.

Think aboutwhat Stable Diffusion was like in 2023and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

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Its a shame, but I guess innovation often comes with a price.

you’re able to see the examples below.

The good news is the image vision seems to work fine.

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Bottom line

So where does that leave us?

Combining image generation with the ability to read images is a nice feature.

However, the report card on this attempt must read “could try harder.”

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Its a total mystery.

I suggest they maybe take a trip back to the drawing board?

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