DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]

Re:DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] by eunos on Monday January 27, 2025 @06:57PM (#42847292)

This is a bit of conspiracy theory, but there's a theory that China's strategic goal isn't to have an all-encompassing Chinese OpenAI that can charge a shit ton of money. The goal is to prevent US companies from doing so.

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Re:DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] by ascorbic on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:56AM (#42849602)

That's not really a conspiracy theory. It's a pretty much the core of China's industrial strategy. Projects like "Made in China 2025" are explicitly about developing their own innovation base to avoid being reliant on foreign companies. AI is one of the areas where this was most urgent.

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Re:DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] by lofaszvanitt on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:08AM (#42849657)

But why? As a reply to the sanctions? You try to hamstring us, we'll burst your state protected NVDA?

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Re:DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf] by kelipso on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:20AM (#42862461)

Because it would be economically destructive to everyone except those large companies if it were to happen.. and the everyone here includes China.

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