DeepSeek Stuns Tech Industry With New AI Image Generator That Beats OpenAI’s DALL-E 3

Chinese AI company DeepSeek is once again making waves in the tech industry, this time with the release of its latest image-generation model, Janus-Pro-7B. The announcement follows the company’s success with its chatbot, which recently outperformed ChatGPT in downloads on Apple’s U.S. App Store.

On January 27, DeepSeek claimed that its newest image generator, Janus-Pro-7B, had surpassed OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion in benchmark tests, as reported by Reuters. However, independent ranking platform Artificial Analysis has yet to verify these claims.

Janus-Pro-7B is designed to generate images from text descriptions, much like its competitors. DeepSeek attributes its model’s superior performance to enhanced training techniques, better data quality, and an expanded model size. The AI was trained on 72 million high-quality synthetic images, carefully combined with real-world data to produce visually refined and stable outputs.

DeepSeek follows an “open-weight” approach, meaning users can access and modify the AI’s algorithms but cannot view the training data used to build the model.

The launch of Janus-Pro-7B comes at a critical time for DeepSeek. Its AI chatbot recently became the most downloaded free app on Apple’s U.S. App Store, overtaking ChatGPT. However, this surge in popularity led to unexpected challenges—DeepSeek had to temporarily restrict new user registrations due to a large-scale cyberattack, although existing users remained unaffected, according to CNBC.

The stock market also reacted to DeepSeek’s growing influence. On the same day Janus-Pro-7B was unveiled, AI chip giant Nvidia suffered a staggering $589 billion loss in market value—the largest single-day drop in U.S. history. While Nvidia remains a trillion-dollar company, the sharp decline highlights how DeepSeek’s advancements are reshaping the competitive landscape of AI.

One of DeepSeek’s biggest strengths is its focus on computational efficiency. Unlike many AI models that require immense processing power, DeepSeek’s algorithms are designed to use significantly less computing energy. This strategic approach is particularly crucial given U.S. restrictions on China’s access to high-performance AI chips.

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