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DeepSeek drops new model DeepSeek-OCR

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What happened: On October 20, DeepSeek dropped a new model – DeepSeek-OCR.
Some context: OCR, or optical character recognition, is a technology that can read text from images – a feature already common in smartphones.
DeepSeek-OCR does that too, but its real innovation is in its compression techniqu...