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AI Daily for 19 June: DeepSeek Vision, Local Qwen Tradeoffs, Mythos Export Pressure, Noam Joins OpenAI
AI Daily for 19 June recaps 5 major AI Hacker News stories, moving through deepseek vision, local qwen tradeoffs, mythos export pressure, noam joins openai.
1. DeepSeek Vision
The next story is about DeepSeek quietly rolling vision support into its chat product, with users claiming the model can now understand images, a notable shift because it pushes a low-cost model closer to being a full multimodal competitor. Hacker News reacted with a mix of excitement and caution, with people asking whether the feature is officially launched, whether API access is coming soon, and why DeepSeek has…
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