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v9v • today at 11:23 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Interesting. Wasn't Deepseek's founder saying that they had explicitly decided not to focus on multimodal models at all and were going text-only because they believed it was enough to achieve AGI?

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johndough • today at 12:10 PM

It was explicitly said that they are pursuing multimodal support. A quote from the meeting transcript: https://github.com/demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meetin...

    Nevertheless, as a component, we will undoubtedly implement multimodal support — and we are already doing so. We plan to develop relevant models, ensuring that versions like V4 and subsequent iterations will natively support multimodal functionality.
Earlier, the following was said, which might match more what you had in mind.

    Achieving excellence in AI training does not require a global model or even multimodal approaches—by narrowing the scope of AI training and eliminating multimodality, certain tasks may remain unachievable without compromising the algorithm's validity.

    Multimodal approaches ultimately need to be implemented.
It is difficult to tell who said what, since the speaker ids are missing.
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swiftcoder • today at 1:13 PM

Worth noting that deepseek has had a separate vision-capable model for some time, which also powers their chat interface's vision mode

dakolli • today at 11:48 AM

I think you're thinking of Dario saying this about image generation.