China's Open-Source Models Are About to Close Their Vision Gap
intellectronica · x · 2026-08-21
Commentary notes that with the release of the mysterious Ox Alpha (reportedly a new GLM) and an experimental DeepSeek Flash Vision, China's top open-source models are filling in their last remaining weakness—vision capabilities. DeepSeek's rapid progress on multimodal agent performance is especially notable.
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