Deepseek just did it again. They just dropped a new paper and model DeepSseek OCR. OCR is basically image recognition.But why is that a big deal. Image recognition has been around forever, right. Well, they discovered something completely novel that has the potential to make language models, textbased models so much more powerful.Let me show you. This is the new paper from Deep Seek. Now, like I said, image recognition has been around for a long time.It's nothing special. We've seen it. It's been done a mil ...

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