DeepSeek, the Chinese startup that has managed to make a mockery of Silicon Valley’s capital-bloated AI oligarchy, has done it again. On Monday morning, the company announced the release of yet another open-source AI system,

The Chinese startup has released an image-generation model called Janus-Pro, aiming to take on US rivals DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion. The multimodal model, which generates images from text prompts, is said to outperform competing services in areas such as image quality and accuracy.

DeepSeek's new open-source AI model surpassed Stability AI and Microsoft-backed OpenAI's models in benchmarks for image generation, the Chinese startup said in a technical report on Monday.