Insights from the bycloud episode “DeepSeek's Deleted Vision Paper Is Nuts...”, published July 8, 2026.
DeepSeek's new approach solves the 'reference gap' in multimodal models by allowing AI to 'point' at images using bounding boxes and coordinates. By interleaving visual primitives into its chain-of-thought, the model effectively grounds its reasoning in space rather than relying solely on ambiguous language descriptions, significantly outperforming frontier models in topological and counting tasks.
Topics: DeepSeek, Multimodal AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Visual Reasoning