DeepSeek appears to be twisting the knife. U.S.-based AI stocks took a tumble on Monday following the release of the China-based DeepSeek AI chatbot. The new product from the Chinese tech startup offers a more affordable large language model (LLM),

DeepSeek unveils Janus-Pro AI models, outperforming DALL-E 3 in benchmarks. These multimodal models, licensed under MIT

DeepSeek says its updated text-to-image generator Janus pro-7B outperforms OpenAI's DALL-E 3 across multiple benchmarks.

DeepSeek just launched upgraded image models named Janus Pro, and it is set to compete with Stable Diffusion and Dall-E 3.

Now DeepSeek has released Janus Pro, an image generating model the company claims that has been engineered for versatility and efficiency. It is and advanced version based on the Janus model, released last year, that performs text-to-image creation that scales up the training data and increases the model size.

The Chinese startup has released an image-generation model called Janus-Pro, aiming to take on US rivals DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion. The multimodal model, which generates images from text prompts, is said to outperform competing services in areas such as image quality and accuracy.

Just moments after knocking ChatGPT out of the top spot in the App Store for most downloaded free apps, the company released Janus-Pro's multimodal text-to-image AI model on Monday. Like R1, DeepSeek's flagship model, Janus-Pro is open source under an MIT license (making it commercially viable) and downloadable via HuggingFace and GitHub .

DeepSeek's new open-source AI model surpassed Stability AI and Microsoft-backed OpenAI's models in benchmarks for image generation, the Chinese startup said in a technical report on Monday. The company said its Janus-Pro-7B AI model outperformed OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion in a leaderboard ranking for image generation using text prompts.