Double Tap DeepSeek is coming in for the kill. With Silicon Valley already on its knees, the Chinese startup is releasing yet another open-source AI model — this time an image generator that the company claims is superior to OpenAI’s DALL·E3. Called Janus-Pro 7B, alluding to its beefy seven billion parameters in its full configuration, the AI model was made available on GitHub and Hugging Face to download on Monday, along with a slimmer one billion parameter version. It’s a followup to an earlier version of Janus released last year, and based on comparisons with its predecessor that DeepSeek shared, appears to be a significant improvement. For a quick spin, demos of both its image generation and image understanding capabilities are available online on Hugging Face. Results may vary, but imagery provided by the company shows serviceable images produced by the system. Bench Warmers In a technical paper released with the AI model, DeepSeek claims that Janus-Pro significantly outperforms DALL·E3 and another leading image generator model, Stable Diffusion XL, in two key benchmarks: GenEval, in which it boasts a considerable lead, and DPG-Bench, where its margin is much slimmer. Notably, Midjourney was left out of the analysis. These are only two benchmarks, noteworthy as they may be, and only time and a lot of screwing around will tell just how well these results hold up as more people experiment with the model. Regardless, DeepSeek sounds adamant that it’s onto something big here. “Janus-Pro surpasses previous unified model and matches or exceeds…After Exploding American AI Industry With ChatGPT Competitor, DeepSeek Releases Image Generator Aimed at Beating DALL-E and Stable Diffusion