DeepSeek Introduces Vision

(chat.deepseek.com)

86 points | by RIshabh235 2 hours ago

14 comments

  • rcMgD2BwE72F 1 hour ago
    Points to https://chat.deepseek.com/sign_in for me, that's just a login screen. Anything page with some info?
  • jiehong 55 minutes ago
    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).

    • paulluuk 18 minutes ago
      Can you explain what the benefits are of actually "talking" with the bot instead of typing and reading?

      As someone who would rather send a slack message to a coworker rather than actually walking over and talk to them, the idea of having to talk with my laptop is not appealing at all, haha.

  • throwaw12 28 minutes ago
    I wish they published a post where we read about capabilities, quality, accuracy and other parameters
  • tornikeo 1 hour ago
    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.

  • bjoli 1 hour ago
    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?

    • serf 32 minutes ago
      This happens to me a lot when I ask a qwen3.6 model to respond to a question in JSON. No clue why.
    • Shank 1 hour ago
      Well, it is a Chinese model, maybe it thinks better in Chinese?
      • bogdan 20 minutes ago
        Hànzì can use 30%-40% fewer tokens than English. So, yes, it probably thinks better in Chinese.
    • abyssin 1 hour ago
      It doesn’t seem that recent to me, at least been like that for six months.
    • RIshabh235 1 hour ago
      yes, kind of silent update plus they might have better chinese datasets and user data for their training, that might be leading to chinese preference.
    • surgical_fire 34 minutes ago
      I use DeepSeek daily, never happened to me.

      I use the API however, not the chat interface.

    • alfiedotwtf 55 minutes ago
      Are you running out of context? I’ve found that tooling and giberish most of the time happens when I’m butting up against the high watermark of my context window. One other thing it could be, I’ve read that lower quanta like Q1 and Q2 for smaller models can leak Chinese
    • epolanski 1 hour ago
      It never happened to me with Deepseek, but it happened multiple times with Kimi 2.6.

      It also happened a handful of times with Anthropic models.

  • arjie 1 hour ago
    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.
    • RIshabh235 12 minutes ago
      Maybe they will do now as they got huge funding.
  • earth2mars 1 hour ago
    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
    • RIshabh235 1 hour ago
      yes and I hope their rate of shipping increases after recent funding.
  • crvdgc 1 hour ago
    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?
    • RIshabh235 1 hour ago
      I haven't seen any official announcement yet, works for me though.
  • innis226 1 hour ago
    Nice, is this available in the API now as well?
    • naseemali925 1 hour ago
      I am also waiting on the vision support in API. Its the only thing blocking me from buying their subscription.
      • dakolli 35 minutes ago
        What subscription?
    • RIshabh235 1 hour ago
      Not in the api yet.
  • hklohani 1 hour ago
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  • ValveFan6666 1 hour ago
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  • andrewstuart 1 hour ago
    OpenAI and Anthropic need to get this free foreign competition banned.
    • epolanski 1 hour ago
      Care to expand on why? Or did you forgot the /s at the end?
      • dudisubekti 1 hour ago
        I feel like '/s' has ruined irony on the internet. Irony is at its best if left ambiguous, lol.
        • cromka 32 minutes ago
          Nah, they're serious actually!
        • Weryj 54 minutes ago
          Wait, did that need a /s?
      • ReptileMan 48 minutes ago
        If everything goes to plan everyone involved with big US models will be trillionaire and everyone else will poor and unemployed. If there are open and cheap to run Chinese models (and please god silicon) the financial house of cards that we have build will fall, people involved with big US models will be poor and unemployed, and everyone else will be slightly less poor and unemployed than in the first scenario.

        What is good for Dario is good for America.

      • andrewstuart 37 minutes ago
        Why do you think it’s free?

        Any ideas, theories where they get their payoff?

        • cromka 33 minutes ago
          Yes, subscription options they sell on deepseek.com