DeepSeek Janus Pro a new open-source multimodal AI image generator model offering cost-effective and versatile text-to-image AI for users

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.

Just moments after knocking ChatGPT out of the top spot in the App Store for most downloaded free apps, the company released Janus-Pro's multimodal text-to-image AI model on Monday. Like R1, DeepSeek's flagship model, Janus-Pro is open source under an MIT license (making it commercially viable) and downloadable via HuggingFace and GitHub .