The Chinese startup that has stunned Silicon Valley with its language models now boasts superior image generation and understanding.

DeepSeek claims its Janus-Pro-7B outperforms existing models such as OpenAI's DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. In a bold move that mirrors its approach with DeepSeek-R1, the company has made Janus-Pro-7B free and open source.

B, claiming it surpasses popular text-to-image models like OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. An upgrade on last year’s Janus model, Janus-Pro’s release follows the success of DeepSeek-V3,

DeepSeek is coming in for the kill. With Silicon Valley already on its knees, the Chinese startup is releasing yet another open-source AI model — this time an image generator that the company claims is superior to OpenAI's DALL·E3.

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.