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AI · January 28, 2025

Janus

Unified Multi-Modal AI by DeepSeek

Janus launched on January 28, 2025 with 224 votes, #170 of 6,142 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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What it does

The Janus series by DeepSeek offers powerful AI models for unified multimodal understanding and generation. It includes Janus-Pro (advanced reasoning), Janus (decoupled visual encoding), and JanusFlow (harmonized autoregression and rectified flow).

Janus-Series: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models - deepseek-ai/Janus

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