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.

DeepSeek Janus Pro a new open-source multimodal AI image generator model offering cost-effective and versatile text-to-image AI for users

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.

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

This story incorporates reporting from decrypt, Business Insider, gadgets360 and The Gazette.DeepSeek, a China-based artificial intelligence lab, has once again raised industry standards with the release of its latest image generation model,