deepseek-ai/Janus

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Janus-Series is DeepSeek's family of unified multimodal models (Janus, Janus-Pro, JanusFlow) that combine multimodal understanding and image generation in a single model. The repository provides model weights, inference code, and demos for running these models.

Use cases

• generate images from text prompts
• answer questions about images with a vision-language model
• run a unified multimodal understanding and generation model locally
• fine-tune or evaluate a multimodal foundation model
• compare Janus-Pro and JanusFlow model variants

When to choose

• you need one model for both image understanding and text-to-image generation
• you want open weights under a permissive code license for research
• you want a lightweight (1.3B) multimodal model for demos

When to avoid

• you need production-grade image generation quality on par with dedicated diffusion models
• you cannot run GPU inference
• you need a fully managed API rather than self-hosted model weights

Facets

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machine-learning deep-learning llm-inference image-processing nlp artificial-intelligence large-language-models computer-vision image-processing python multimodal any-to-any vision-language-model text-to-image image-generation foundation-models deepseek natural-language-processing gpu linux

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