DeepSeek Introduces Vision • Hacker News Board

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by dakolli » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 7:59 AM UTC

naseemali925 wrote: post #18

innis226 wrote: post #5

Nice, is this available in the API now as well?

I am also waiting on the vision support in API. Its the only thing blocking me from buying their subscription.

What subscription?

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by surgical_fire » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:00 AM UTC

bjoli wrote: post #8

What has been going on with deepseek recently? I have gotten lots of replies in Chinese and even more frequently, reasoning in Chinese as well. Is it a new silent update?

I use DeepSeek daily, never happened to me.

I use the API however, not the chat interface.

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by cromka » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:01 AM UTC

andrewstuart wrote: post #30

epolanski wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to expand on why? Or did you forgot the /s at the end?

Why do you think it’s free? Any ideas, theories where they get their payoff?

Yes, subscription options they sell on deepseek.com

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by cromka » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:02 AM UTC

dudisubekti wrote: post #24

epolanski wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to expand on why? Or did you forgot the /s at the end?

I feel like '/s' has ruined irony on the internet. Irony is at its best if left ambiguous, lol.

Nah, they're serious actually!

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by serf » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:03 AM UTC

bjoli wrote: post #8

What has been going on with deepseek recently? I have gotten lots of replies in Chinese and even more frequently, reasoning in Chinese as well. Is it a new silent update?

This happens to me a lot when I ask a qwen3.6 model to respond to a question in JSON. No clue why.

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by throwaw12 » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:06 AM UTC

I wish they published a post where we read about capabilities, quality, accuracy and other parameters

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by bogdan » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:14 AM UTC

Shank wrote: post #11

bjoli wrote: post #8

What has been going on with deepseek recently? I have gotten lots of replies in Chinese and even more frequently, reasoning in Chinese as well. Is it a new silent update?

Well, it is a Chinese model, maybe it thinks better in Chinese?

Hànzì can use 30%-40% fewer tokens than English. So, yes, it probably thinks better in Chinese.

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by paulluuk » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:17 AM UTC

jiehong wrote: post #26

For those not trying, this allows Deepseek to understand a picture (instead of just extracting text from it), and it can describe what's in the picture, but this is not an image generation system, so you can't ask it to modify an image. Personally, I'm a bit surprised the DS chat app still doesn't offer its own text to speech and speech to text features (I know DS doesn't have any ASR model for example, but there are…

Can you explain what the benefits are of actually "talking" with the bot instead of typing and reading?

As someone who would rather send a slack message to a coworker rather than actually walking over and talk to them, the idea of having to talk with my laptop is not appealing at all, haha.

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by RIshabh235 » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:23 AM UTC

arjie wrote: post #21

If they'd do one of those little extraneous additions like Qwen does, so that I can have DS4 Flash with Vision that would be great. I've got to run a separate model entirely so that I can get vision and I'd prefer to just put it all in one space.

Maybe they will do now as they got huge funding.

Re: DeepSeek Introduces Vision

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Post by tw1984 » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 8:35 AM UTC

what is more interesting to me is why it takes so long for them to support vision.

does it implies that Liang believes vision/voice is less important on its way to AGI?