DeepSeek, the Chinese startup that has managed to make a mockery of Silicon Valley’s capital-bloated AI oligarchy, has done it again. On Monday morning, the company announced the release of yet another open-source AI system,

The Janus Pro models have been launched on GitHub and Hugging Face, available in one-billion and seven-billion parameter models. According to DeepSeek, the latter is able to compete with both Stable Diffusion and Dall-E 3 in benchmarking tests, though this hasn’t been thoroughly tested by third pirates right now.

DeepSeek, a China-based AI company that launched a chatbot that disrupted US tech stocks and App Store rankings, has launched an AI image generator just days after its chatbot went viral. Janus-Pro is a multi-modal image generator that DeepSeek says both understands and performs better than earlier models.