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.

The Janus Pro models have been launched on GitHub and Hugging Face, available in one-billion and seven-billion parameter models. According to DeepSeek, the latter is able to compete with both Stable Diffusion and Dall-E 3 in benchmarking tests, though this hasn’t been thoroughly tested by third pirates right now.