Janus
Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
Janus is a sophisticated open-source project from DeepSeek AI that aims to unify both visual understanding and image generation in a single model architecture. Rather than having separate systems for “look and describe” and “prompt and generate”, Janus uses an autoregressive transformer framework with a decoupled visual encoder—allowing it to ingest images for comprehension and to produce images from text prompts with shared internal representations. The design tackles long-standing...