“DeepSeek” is at it again! While shaking up Wall Street, they just dropped something huge at the stroke of midnight on Chinese New Year’s Eve! 🎉
#DeepSeek #deepseekai #LLM 

This morning, Janus-Pro was officially released and open-sourced, along with its tech report.

Here’s the TL;DR:
1️⃣ Janus-Pro is a multimodal model that tackles both multimodal understanding and image generation. Two versions are available: Janus-Pro-1B & Janus-Pro-7B.
2️⃣ The core innovation? It decouples understanding & generation tasks, allowing them to be efficiently handled in the same model.
3️⃣ Janus-Pro is based on the same architecture as last October’s Janus, but with some big improvements. Last year, the Janus model didn’t get much attention — but now it’s showing real potential!

What’s interesting?
• Decoupling understanding & generation in the same model isn’t new — models like D-DiT and TokenFlow-XL can do this too.
• But Janus-Pro does it in a way that balances both tasks, making it more efficient and effective.

Here’s the challenge: Merging understanding and generation can lead to conflict. Image understanding needs high-level abstraction to capture key semantics, while generation needs pixel-level detail.

Traditionally, models focus on generation first, which means their understanding often suffers.

Janus-Pro’s decoupled architecture solves this! It boosts both tasks without compromise. 💡