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.

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

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.

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.

DeepSeek has made waves after delivering a ChatGPT rival, and it's now revealed upgraded image models to rival top image generators.

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.

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