DeepSeek's multimodal pivot was planned all along, says observer as pure-text era ends
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-09
teortaxesTex pushes back on the narrative that DeepSeek neglected multimodality: DS-VL shipped in March 2024 and DSV2 (May) signaled intent clearly — "it was all part of the plan." A quoted post speculates the 0813 release will be DeepSeek's last non-multimodal model.
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