DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large language models process information—and the implications extend far beyond its modest branding as an optical character recognition tool.The company's DeepSeek-OCR model, released Monday with full open-source code and weights, achieves what researchers describe as a paradigm inversion: compressi