DeepSeek's New AI Models Challenge OpenAI's DALL-E 3: A Revolution in Multimodal AI?

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Meet DeepSeek's Janus Pro models, the latest multimodal AI models that claim to outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3. These bad boys range from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters, with the largest one, Janus Pro 7B, beating DALL-E 3 on two AI evaluation benchmarks. But what's even more impressive is its size – it's relatively small compared to its competitors. So, is this the beginning of a new era in unified multimodal models? Only time will tell.

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