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Morning Edition · Thursday, June 18, 2026Published at 6:48 AM EDT · New York
DeepSeek Adds Vision to Its Assistant
The Chinese lab extended its consumer chat product with image understanding, expanding the non-US open-weight stack into multimodal use.
DeepSeek has introduced vision capability in its assistant, adding image understanding to a product line that has been among the more closely watched Chinese open-weight efforts. The rollout surfaced through developer discussion rather than…
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